A ban on wearing the all covering burka in France would stem the spread of what French minister Fadela Amara called the "cancer" of radical Islam. The Muslim minister for urban regeneration told the Financial Times newspaper that the head-to-toe...
The American man John Yettaw whose unauthorised visit to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi led to her extended detention, has been released, the office of US Senator Jim Webb has said. The statement said Webb, who was on a two-day visit to...
Journalists, writers and booksellers united in Baghdad today to stage a protest against censorship. The protesters are concerned about encroachments by the government on the freedom of writers, both in print and online. The demonstration took place...
A group of South Korean citizens have filed a lawsuit against a Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, for what they claimed to be a misreport. A total of 1,886 people Thursday filed a suit against the paper for a report in July last...
Five of the six journalists sentenced to two years in prison for sedition and defamation against the government in Zambia have been moved to a northern prison. This included Pap Saine, the Reuters correspondent who is suffering from a heart...
A book called "The cartoons that shook the world" being published by Yale University Press about the Danish cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed which provoked outrage from the Muslim world has not printed the controversial cartoons in the...
The Thai government has created a police taskforce within the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) to monitor websites and identify those posting content that violates Thailand's draconian lèse majesté law. Police General...
Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said on his website that some of those detained after the country's disputed June presidential vote were tortured to death in prison. The claim by Mehdi Karroubi comes days after he said a number...
The European Union has announced it is extending its sanctions on Burma to cover members of the judiciary responsible for the verdict in the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more here
In Russia, opposition daily Novaya Gazeta has announced that due to increasing dangers they will pull all their staff from Chechnya after a a string of killings there on human rights activists and journalists. In October 2006, the same paper's...