Iranian authorities have shut down the Association of Iranian Journalists, when armed men raided and sealed the Tehran offices. Five journalists have been released in the past week including: Massoud Kurdpour, who just completed a one year jail...
Guo Quan, the founder of the China New Democracy Party will plead not guilty when he stands trial today for subversion against the state according to his lawyer. The trial comes amid reports of numerous detentions and trials of dissidents,...
A Russian court in Moscow refused a request from the family of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya to halt a retrial of three men accused of being accomplices in her murder. Lawyers for the family of Politkovskaya, who was gunned down outside her...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States has “expressed our concern about Maziar Bahari’s confinement and trial” to the Canadian government and offered to help. Newsweek's Tehran correspondent was detained on 21 June...
Six journalists in Gambia have been jailed for two years each after being found guilty of criticising the country's president. The journalists from the newspaper Foroyaa and weekly publication The Point were convicted of sedition and defamation for...
Social networking site Twitter has come under a denial of service (DNS) attack, the site reports. The source of the attack is unkown. Twitter was a key part of reporting on unrest after Iran's disputed elections. Read more here
Chansa Kabwela, Editor of Zambia’s largest newspaper, the Post, is on trial over supposed distribution of "pornographic" images. Kabwela sent two images of women giving birth on hospital grounds without medical assistance to Zambian vice-president,...
The retrial of three men allegedly involved in the murder Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya opens before a military court today (5 August) in Moscow. They are former Moscow police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who is accused of helping to...
The US marine corps have banned the use of social networking sites, after officials expressed concern about potential security risks. An order sent out to marines on 4 August informed them that they could no longer use sites including Facebook,...
Current TV journalists Laura Ling, and Euna Lee have returned to the United States after former US president Bill Clinton secured their release from a North Korean jail on a visit to Pyongyang. Read more here