Catalina Botero, of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), has reported receiving 12 complaints of media shut-downs and information about at least 25 journalists currently at risk. “Public media outlets which had favored president...
A Dutch court has determined that phone-taps carried out by the secret service (AIVD) on journalists at newspaper De Telegraaf were illegal and must stop immediately. Furthermore, any information gathered by AIVD cannot be submitted as evidence in...
Egyptian author and thinker Sayed Al-Qimni has been threatened and denounced as an apostate by Islamic organisations including Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya and the Muslim Brotherhood Since receiving the State Award of Merit in Social Sciences from the...
An electronic sign that displayed human rights messages from the US interests section in Havana has been switched off. The scrolling display was switched on as part of an escalation of the US's propaganda war in 2006. Read more here
The Pope has condemned a Scottish art exhibition which invites visitors to deface a copy of the Bible as "disgusting". The exhibit at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow was intended for the LGBT community who felt left out of religion to "write...
Palestinian militant organisation, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade that was ridiculed in the new Sacha Baron Cohen film has threatened to "respond in the way we find suitable" against the London-born satirist. The armed wing of the Fatah movement, has...
AT&T is rumored to have blocked parts of the popular Internet forum 4Chan. “It’s come to our attention that AT&T is filtering/blocking img.4chan.org (/b/ & /r9k/) for many of their customers. There is no remedy at this time,” 4Chan reported on...
Jürgen Rieger, the vice-president of Germany’s far right NDP party, has submitted plans to open a museum intended to celebrate the Third Reich’s "Strength through Joy" programme. But critics have accused Rieger of using the museum as a way to...
Chinese blogger Duan Lei, who had been held since 25 February on charges of defamation and disturbing the social order, has been released by prosecutors due to a lack of evidence. Duan Lei's allegations that a local Communist party secretary had...
In Sudan, Amal Habbani, the editor of the column Tiny Issues in Ajrass Al Horreya (Freedom Bells) newspaper, if being fined US$400,000 after she wrote an article on July 12 supporting her colleague Lubna Al Hussein. Hussein was recently tried for...