Mohammed Abdallah Al-Abdulkarim, a law professor at Imam Mohammed bin Saud University, was detained on 5 December after he wrote an article alleging disagreements within the Saudi royal family. Al-Abdulkarim's article for Royaah.net also detailed...
US Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he has authorised investigations into the possibility of prosecuting those responsible for the Wikileaks Cablegate leaks. Speaking today (6 December), Holder said: "I personally authorized a number of...
Wikileaks is reporting that Swiss bank Post Finance has frozen an account set up for the legal defence of Julian Assange. The move follow's Paypal's freezing of Wikleaks' account last Friday (3 December) Read Wikileaks' statement here
Students at the US's Columbia University have been warned that reading or sharing information from the Wikileaks Cablegate documents could jeopardise employment prospects with the State department and other government agencies. The email from the...
Private ownership of web hosting raises serious questions for free expression, says Jillian C York
Jo Glanville: Cablegate’s long-term meaning for free expression
Amazon yesterday pulled the plug on its hosting of Wikileaks after reported political pressure in the US. The whistleblowing site has since moved to new hosts. Read more here
An Interpol "red notice" has been issued for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in connection with sex crime allegations in Sweden. The notice, while not amounting to an arrest warrant, requests that anyone aware of the subject should alert police....
Today in the High Court US medical device company NMT Medical was ordered to pay £200,000 into court in their libel action against cardiologist Dr Peter Wilmshurst. Master Foster ruled that if NMT Medical do not pay this money by 18 January 2010...
The Emirates Local News website (http://localnewsuae.com), which translates and posts all news about the UAE from around the world, has been blocked within the UAE. The ban came 10 days before the site's first anniversary and the government have...
Writer Nevin Berktaş, author of the book "Difficult places that challenge the faith: Prison Cells" (published by Yediveren Yayınları in 2010), is being tried on charges of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organisation". The case about Berktaş's...