Andrey Pochobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza who stands accused of defamation and “insulting the president”, is facing a four-year prison sentence. The trial began yesterday in Leninski district court, Belarus, with...
Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority today announced it has commissioned a UK-based legal firm to file a defamation case against the Independent newspaper. Nawaf Mohammed Al-Maawda, publications director-general said: "The Independent has...
Turkish police yesterday arrested 32 computer hackers who are suspected of links with the anti-government hacker collective, Anonymous. Over the weekend cyber attacks were launched on a number of government sites to protest against proposed net...
At least 50 anti-government protesters were jailed in Bangladesh yesterday after the authorities broke up the second general strike staged this month. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Islamic fundamentalist group, Jamaat-e-Islami,...
Twenty-year-old student, Ayat al-Gormezi, who recited poems critical of Bahrain’s rulers at a Shia-led protest in Pearl Square has been sentenced to a year in prison. In the lead up to her trial she claimed that she was beaten in prison and she has...
Ahmet Altan, the editor of liberal daily paper Taraf has appeared in court after he was accused of "exceeding the limits of freedom of expression" by the country’s prime minister. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been in power since 2003, filed for...
Jyotirmoy Dey, the investigations editor for the daily paper Mid day based in Mumbai was shot dead by four men on 11 June. He had recently written a piece on an oil mafia that had been selling tainted fuel. Dey was cremated on Sunday 12 June and...
Recent developments in a libel trial involving Uzebkistan's first family have raised concerns about the EU's involvement with the Karimov family. The claim was brought by President Karimov’s daughter, Lola, against French website Rue89 after one...
There has been no news on the whereabouts of Marco Antonio López Ortiz, the news editor of Novedades Acapulco, a daily based in Acapulco, Mexico. He was kidnapped 7 June by a group of men. Ortiz oversaw the paper's crime reports, but according to...
A radio journalist for DWEB, a private station based in Manila, was shot twice in the back on his way to work. Romeo Olea's wife said that he had received death threats and police believe the murder is linked to Olea's recent stories criticising a...