Iranian authorities have acknowledged that at least three protesters who were jailed after the countries disputed presidential elections in June, were beaten to death in prison. A military court announced that 12 prison officials had been charged...
Danish radiologist, Henrik Thomsen has said from now on he will not publish his research findings in the UK as he fears he will be sued for libel. His decision follows legal action against him by GE Healthcare, a British subsidiary of General...
In Morocco blogger, El Bachir Hazzam, has been given a four-month sentence on a charge of "spreading false information about human rights that undermined the kingdom's image." Internet café owner Abdullah Boukfou was given a 12-month sentence on a...
Social networking website Twitter, along with the pro-opposition website mowjcamp.org, has been targeted by a group of pro-government hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army accordning. Both websites, which became focal points for the...
A group of MPs has launched legal action against the CIA in a landmark legal case in the United States in an attempt to force the authorities there to release thousands of pages of files about the extraordinary rendition of Islamic terrorist...
The BBC has come under fire for pulling sections of the Sergei Diaghilev ballet from its Christmas television schedule after discovering it featured a deformed Pope who rapes nuns. BBC4 was due to show Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez in a...
The BBC has today withdrawn claims made on flagship news programme Newsnight that oil-trading company Trafigura caused deaths in the Ivory Coast after toxic waste was dumped there. in a settlement designed to head off a potentially massively...
Several people have been arrested in Tehran over the tearing up of a picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during anti-government demonstrations last week. State television broadcast footage of what it claimed were opposition supporters tearing...
China has banned individuals from registering internet domain names and launched a review of millions of existing personal websites in the toughest government censorship drive so far on the internet reports the Financial Times. China has banned the...
The Australian government has announced that it is to go ahead with controversial internet censorship plans after trials of the new filtering system were found to be accurate. The filter laws will be introduced in parliament in August 2010 and will...