A group of British academics including the historian Orlando Figes and the poet and translator Robert Chandler have spoken out after authorities in Russia closed down a website dealing with the country's controversial Soviet past. Read more here
Qantas airline has put a halt on online activist group GetUp's latest anti-censorship campaign, refusing to run the "Censordyne" advert, which criticises the Australian government's forthcoming Internet filtering scheme, on its flights. The group...
Burma is preparing to release political prisoners to allow them to take part in national elections next year. Burma's UN envoy Than Swe did not say how many of the estimated 2,100 inmates would go free and did not mention if the jailed opposition...
Two journalists, believed to be French, have been kidnapped from a hotel in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu. Read more here
The Venezuelan government introduced new media regulations. The government has revoked 200 radio licenses, shifting them to public ownership, and banned radio networks with over three stations. Read more here
Simon Sheppard (51) and Stephen Whittle (42) have become the first people in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online. Sheppard and Whittle ran websites featuring pictures of murdered jews alongside cartoons and articles deriding...
On 2 July, the Federal Court of Appeal fined Sami al-Araimi 20,000 dirhams and suspend his newspaper, Emarat Alyoum, of which Araimi is editor-in-chief, for 20 days. The conviction stems from an October 2006 article in the paper alleging a...
Ireland's new blasphemy legislation has been passed through the Dáil as part of the Defamation Bill. The Bill will now go to the upper house, the Seanad
On 30 June, the Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko, approved a law to make the possession of pornography a criminal offence. Punishment will include a fine and imprisonment of up to three years. The law has one loophole, specifying that...
On 6 July, 22 of the 25 jailed employees of Kalameh Sabz, the newspaper owned by Mir Hossein Mousavi were released. Three editorial staff are still in jail. Read more here