Authorities in Puntland, Somalia's northeastern semi-autonomous region, released reporter Faysal Mohamed Hassan on Sunday. Mohamed, who wrote for the private news site Hiiraan Online, was serving a prison sentence over a story claiming that two...
Syrian forces stormed the opposition stronghold of Hama on Sunday, in a bid to crush demonstrations before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. By this morning (1 August), the death toll had been reported to have reached 84. The head of...
Translated screenshots from journalist Lu Chaoguo's Tencent microblog account reveal his detention and mistreatment by police after reporting on recent riots in Anshun, Guizhou province. The riots were sparked by a "city management” official...
The potent reaction from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday's deadly train crash in Wenzhou has shown how the state's propaganda machine is being increasingly challenged. The majority of Chinese media (including...
Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, a stringer working for the BBC in Afghanistan, has been killed during a Taliban raid on a TV station in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan. It is unclear whether Khpulwak, 25, was killed by Taliban or Nato forces responding...
Guinea's state-controlled media regulatory agency this week imposed a "temporary" ban on media coverage of the 19 July attack on the private residence of President Alpha Condé, silencing private radio and television debate programmes in which...
Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October presidential election. Eleven news sites have been denied accreditation to inform voters on...
The Guardian has revealed that the News of the World hacked Sara Payne's phone, which Rebekah Brooks had given her as a gift. Payne had previously been told, accurately, that her name did not appear in Glenn Mulcaire's notes, but her personal...
Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly held at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman, urging him in a song posted on YouTube last year to "go home." A statement posted on Hamdan's...
The controversial 'A Serbian Film' has been banned from being screened at the RioFan film festival by the event's main sponsor, Brazilian national bank Caixa Econômica Federal. A statement on the festival's website says organisers were given no...