Blogger and pro-democracy activist Nguyen Tien Trung is facing the death penalty after being charged with "trying to overthrow the government" and is due to be tried at the end of the month. Trung was arrested in July on a charge of propaganda...
Lawyers for the foreign secretary, David Miliband have branded two senior judges "irresponsible" for wanting to disclose intelligence material related to allegations of torture involving the CIA and the UK's alleged collusion. Jonathan Sumption QC,...
Social networking site Facebook has apparently closed a group advocating 90s group Rage Against the Machine's Killing In The Name Of as Christmas number 1 single. The group, which had over 750,000 members, was set up in opposition to TV talent sho...
Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist Wael Abbas has been sentenced to six months in prison according to his Twitter page. In his tweet he says "I was sentenced to 6 months in prison in absentia, I don't know yet what for, will...
Clashes have erupted in Istanbul's Beyoglu district as around 200 Kurds protesting at the closure of a leading Kurdish party clashed with Turkish nationalists and police. It was the third straight day of street violence after the constitutional...
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, is to chair the bench in what could be a landmark hearing for libel law in England. Lord Judge will preside over science writer Simon Singh's appeal against an earlier ruling on meaning in the case he is...
Golfer Tiger Woods has gained an injunction from an English court against further reporting of his private life. Woods, 33 has been in the spotlight because of revalations of extra-marital affairs. Read more here
China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites. The State Administration of Radio Film and Television said the site BTChina did not have a license to distribute audio and video content. Another popular website, the Chinese...
A devout Christian couple have been cleared of insulting a Muslim guest at their hotel because of her faith and asking her if she was a terrorist when she wore the hijab. Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang denied using threatening, abusive or...
Two Tibetan web users have been sentenced to three-year jail terms after posting pictures of the exiled Dalai Lama on the Internet. Gyaltsen and Nyima Wangdu were given three-year sentences after being convicted of "communicating information to...