The decree suspending civil liberties in Honduras has been formally repealed. The decree had suspended several civil liberties as well as preventing radio stations loyal to Zelaya from broadcasting. Robert Michetti the current leader of Honduras...
Journalist Saeed Hajjarian was freed from Evin prison in Tehran on 30 September after paying bail. Hajjarian was arrested at his home on the night of 15 June. Hajjarian is the former editor of the now-closed Sobh-e-Emrouz newspaper, which backed...
Mark Walungama, a manager in the Ugandan Broadcasting Corporation has been dismissed for allowing "disturbing pictures’"of police beating protestors in the recent city riots. Walungama was informed by top officials to cease reporting for work until...
The Moroccan government is suing daily newspaper Akhbar Al Youm after it published a cartoon of Prince Moulay Ismail. The government said the cartoon showed "blatant disrespect" to the royal family. Read more here
Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo, BBC correspondent, are reported to have gone into hiding in Guinea. The two had been threatened after reporting on the government...
Dozens of protesters were shot dead in a crowded football stadium by Guinean security forces at a demonstration against the country’s military leader Captain Moussa "Dadis" Camara on 28 September. As many as 58 people had been brought in to the...
Interim leaders in Honduras suspended civil liberties on 27 September. Measures can now be taken to break up "unauthorised" public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media. Media outlets which "attack peace and public...
Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article about the government’s defence of the Soviet Union. Podrabinek wrote his controversial article for...
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications companies and internet service providers "shall block pornographic websites". Many of the websites to be...
Censorship on both national and international press in Honduras has increased since the return of Manuel Zelaya to the capital Tegucigalpa on 21 September. The international press has been kept away from the pro-Zelaya demonstrations and has been...