Cuban photojournalist Maria Nelida Lopez Baez has been arrested and is being held at an unknown location on the communist-ruled island. The journalist faces possible persecution for “pre-criminal social danger,” the Paris-based organisation ...
Palestinian Authority security officials have seized and erased video footage shot by news service Al Jazeera on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Hebron. The erased footage dealt with a prisoners death in a Hebron detention centre and alleged...
American computer makers say the Chinese government has not backed down from a requirement that Internet censorship software be preinstalled on all computers sold in China after July 1, despite reports this week that the rule had been relaxed. Read...
The press and public have reacted with outrage after MPs were accused yesterday of a massive cover-up of their expenses after the Commons authorities released hundreds of thousands of claims documents and receipts with huge sections of detail...
Belfast journalist, Suzanne Breen of the Sunday Tribune does not have to hand over her notes to the police, the High Court has ruled. A judge ruled that to give up her sources and material would endanger her life. Read more here
Chinese police appear to have detained a blogger who posted images of the aftermath of a riot online, prompting concerns of a crackdown on citizen journalists. The images he had posted online have since been deleted or blocked. Read more here
Tabloid coloumist Antonia Castillo has been shot dead by two men at close range following a brief chase on motorbikes. Castillo is the second journalist killed in the Philippines in the last week and the fifth journalist deliberately murdered in...
Afghan authorities have released two Al Jazeera producers who had been kept at the intelligence headquarters in Kabul for three days. Read more here
The expenses claims of every MP for the past four years have been published, but with some key details blacked out. Commons authorities have published details after a long-running Freedom of Information battle but certain information has been...
The Globovisión network’s attorneys announced on Tuesday that the government has begun its fourth sanctioning procedure in six months, paving the way for the removal of the broadcaster’s free-to-air licence. Read more here