Human rights advocates in China indicated that Zhuang Lu, the office assistant at the prominent human rights law centre Gongmeng may not have been released, as was previously stated. Ms Zhuang made a short phone call to her mother on 26 August in...
Investigative journalist, Enrico Porsia’s car has been blown up near the Southern Corsican town Porto Vecchio, where he is currently on holiday. Porsia was not injured but believes it may have been an intimidation attempt linked to stories he has...
A lawyer for a Florida school district says a handful of students have been sent home from schools this week for wearing shirts that read "Islam is of the Devil." The shirts are connected to a local church called the Dove World Outreach Center who...
In Italy state-owned TV channels have refused to show the trailer of the latest documentary by Erik Gandini, Videocracy, which looks at the rise of Berlusconi’s TV stations and impact on the Italy's customs and ethics. In a press statement...
Ramazan Yesergepov, the editor of an independent weekly paper in Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata Info, has been jailed for three years on a charge of "collecting information that contains state secrets." He was sentenced in the absence of a lawyer, his...
The fourth session of the mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, including journalists, took place in Tehran yesterday and has been criticised for procedural irregularities and only allowing state-owned media coverage. The defendants were...
In Kuala Lumpur, copies of the inaugural issue of Gedung Kartun magazine have been confiscated by officials due to a "lack of publication permit" as well as for "content checking." The magazine’s editor-in-chief and well-known cartoonist Zulkiflee...
Stars and Stripes military newspaper has reported that US army commanders in Afghanistan are rejecting requests from reporters who want to "embed" with troops because their prior coverage was considered to be negative. Read more here
A YouGov poll commissioned by Christian Aid said that half of UK adults think that policing of environmental protests is too heavy handed or involves too many officers. Of those surveyed, 18% said they were put off joining protests and 33% said...
An additional charge of “intentional physical violence” have been brought against Adnan Hadji Zadeh and Emin Milli, two bloggers who have been held on a hooliganism charge since July in Azerbaijan. The new charge carries a maximum sentence of two...