Natalia Radizina, the editor of Charter 97 an oppostion news website in Belarus has received an email threatening violence of a sexual nature if she was not careful about what she chose to post. This followed a report by Charter 97 on a pro-Russian...
A garden gnome giving the Nazi salute has landed a German artist in trouble with the authorities in Nuremberg. Prosecutors are investigating whether the gnome, which went on show in one of the city's galleries, breaks the strict law banning Nazi...
The Ministry of Justice has announced plans to incorporate only four new bodies in the Freedom of Information Act after lengthy consultation. These include the Association of Chief Police Officers, Academy schools, the Financial Ombudsman Service...
Two journalists have been released after paying an undisclosed "heavy fine" at a Namibian court after being arrested for filming the annual seal cull, which involves clubbing seal pups to death. Jim Wilckens from the UK and South African cameraman...
On 16 July in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a crowd of mourners, mostly women, following a minivan containing the body of murdered human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was dispersed by police. Read more here
Natalia Estemirova, a researcher for Russian group memorial, has been found dead in Ingushetia. Read more here
The Ukranian Culture and Tourism Ministry has banned distribution of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy film Brüno on the grounds that it is "too controversial and likely to offend". Read more here
On 10 July, an Indonesian logging company detained three members of a French television news crew in Jambi province, Sumatra. Ciryl Payen, the Southeast Asia bureau chief for the France 24 television station, Gilaume Martin and Dewi Arilaha were...
Journalists from Telesur and Venezolano de Television (VTV) both Venezuelan state funded channels claim to have been expelled from Honduras. Four crew members were detained on the night of 11 July and although they were released early on Sunday...
Almazbek Tashiyev, a freelance reporter who wrote for the Bishkek-based opposition weekly Agym in Kyrgyzstan has died in hospital from injuries he recieved eight days before. Upon his admission to hospital he said he had been assaulted by “about 10...