Intelligence officials and police shut down freelance journalist Mazen Darwich’s office and confiscated all of its contents on 13 September. The journalist heads the Syrian Centre for Media and Free Expression, Syria’s only NGO specialising in...
Days after the UN chief Ban Ki-Moon condemned the Sri Lankan government’s decision to expel Unicef’s communications officer from the country, new information has been reported in the Guardian that another UN official was expelled from the country....
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned that diplomatic ties with Australia "may be harmed" by a war crimes inquiry into the deaths of five journalists killed in East Timor in 1975. Recent investigations have indicated that senior...
On 10 September four men suspected of killing Franco-Spanish journalist Christian Poveda in El Salvador were arrested. One of suspects is a police officer. The other three are members of Mara 18, a street gang that Poveda filmed for this 2008...
An account of the investigation into the disappearance Madeleine McCann investigation by a former Portuguese investigator on the case has been banned from further publication in Portugal. The Truth of the Lie by Goncalo Amaral claimed that...
UNESCOs proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing HIV have been removed from its website amid criticism by conservative American organisations that they were too explicit for young children. The guidelines are a product of...
Journalist Lubna Hussein has been released, apparently "against her wishes", after the Sudanese journalists union paid the penalty fine of £130 for wearing trousers in public. She had refused to pay the fine herself. Hussein had initially faced a...
Afghan student Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh has been freed from prison after he was secretly pardon by Afghanistan's President Karzai. Kambakhsh was sentenced to death, commuted to imprisonment, after he was accused of circulating an article that...
Six journalists imprisoned for sedition in Gambia have been pardoned by President Jammeh. Read more here
Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who connected his businesses with terror funding, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Read more...