Arkadi Lander, editor-in-chief of the Sochi-based newspaper 'Mesnaya', was brutally attacked at his apartment on 26 April by two unidentified men. "No doubt, the order has to do with my editorial and journalistic activities in the 'Mestnaya'...
Selim Sadak, mayor of the city of Siirt in south-eastern Turkey, was sentenced to 1 year's imprisonment on 26 April after being found guilty of "spreading PKK propaganda". Sadak's conviction is came after he used the term "Kurdiastan" in a...
Supported by Index on Censorship, campaigners from across the UK and abroad are to converge on London’s Trafalgar Square on 3 May in support of Zarganar, Burma’s most famous comedian turned prisoner of conscience
The Saudi Arabian government broke the Arabic record for the fastest time to block a new website, clocking in at just 15 hours. On 25 April, they blocked a US- based site created by Egyptian activists The Egyptian Association for Change,...
Musician M.I.A's video for her new single Born Free has been banned from Youtube just days after it was released. The controversial video, directed by Romain Gavras, shows American police rounding redheads, and subjecting them to brutal violence....
The newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, appointed Mervyn Silva as the deputy minister for media and information on Friday. Silva is a politician with a notorious reputation for physically and verbally attacking journalists and...
An amendment to laws on guarding state secrets could force communication providers to cooperate with the country's security apparatus over the leaking or distribution of state secrets. Telecom operators and internet service providers will have to...
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A team of lawyers called for the ban of Arabic classic A Thousand and One Nights on 17 April. The lawyers, from the "Actio popularis" group, filed a complaint with the prosecutor general, demanding that the book be confiscated and its publishers...
Three journalists were killed in two separate incidents on Saturday. Nathan S Dabak and Sunday Gyang Bwede from the Light Bearer, owned by the Church of Christ in Nigeria, were stabbed to death by Muslim rioters in the town of Jos. The town has...