State censors in Lebanon have asked Beirut International Film Festival not to show an Iranian opposition film during a visit from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Originally scheduled for screening on 13 October, the day of Ahmadinejad's arrival, the...
A protest against a gay pride march in Belgrade on Sunday ended in violence and looting. Riot police attempted to protect participants from protesters throwing petrol bombs, bricks, and shouting "death to homosexuals." Once police...
The former editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia has begun a two-year prison sentence for publishing images of women in underwear. Erwin Arnada was found guilty of violating indecency laws during a closed trial at the Supreme Court in August,...
Several Bolivian newspapers are protesting a proposed law which would allow the government to shut down any media outlets it deems guilty of racism. The protest is motivated by concerns that the law could be used to curtail political criticism or...
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the 2010 Nobel peace prize. He was praised by the Nobel committee for his "non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights". Currently serving an 11-year prison sentence on charges of subversion, Liu...
Think tank MigrationWatch has released a statement saying that it no longer intends to sue political commentator Sally Bercow for libel. It was revealed by Index on Censorship last week that Mrs Bercow had been threatened with legal action over...
Detectives with the federal Investigative Committee say they are examining an expanded circle of suspects in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The new suspects are said to be ethnic Chechens who wanted to get on the good side of Chechen...
The Sudanese Ministry of Information has refused to renew the license of Monte Carlo radio's Arabic service, which broadcasts in Sudan from Paris. The radio station was told that certain laws and regulations prevent the license renewal from taking...
The co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party has been convicted of 'propaganda for an illegal organisation' and handed a ten-month prison sentence. Selahattin Demitras was punished for making a statement about the detention conditions...
Paramilitary personnel ransacked the Balochistan offices of private television channel VSH News TV on 4 October. VSH staff were told by members of the Frontier Corps (FC) to put their hands up, and were then frisked and told to leave the office....