Padraig Reidy: Animal cruelty videos protected free expression, says US Supreme Court
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Cambodian newspaper attacked
Boay Roeuy, journalist working for Khmer Machas Srok, a Cambodian newspaper with ties to the Sam Rainsy Party, has alleged that he has been receiving death threats from bodyguards working for the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). Hang Chakra, the...
Journalists prevented from covering Iraqi protests
Journalists were assaulted by police officers while covering protests in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan on 17 and 20 April. On Saturday, media employees were obstructed from reporting clashes between security forces and students following a...
Iran’s reformist movement hit again
Two political parties were suspended, a newspaper banned and three political figures sentenced to prison by the Iranian authorities on Monday. According to the official IRNA news agency, the Mujahedeen of the Islamic Revolution, the reformist group...
Children of the disappeared
Dirty War abductions: A case involving the adopted heirs to an Argentinean media empire has reignited a row about press freedom. Ed Stocker reports
Indonesian blasphemy law overruled
Human rights groups have criticised the Indonesian constitutional court's decision to uphold a controversial 45 year-old blasphemy law yesterday. The Wahid Institute, the first group to lobby for a review of the law, and many other human rights...
US approves anti-filtering software for Iran
The anti-internet filtering software, Haystack, received the necessary export license from the US government last week to sell their product to Iran in an effort to help Iranian citizens gain free speech. Inspired by the internet restrictions...
Password program stolen in Chinese Google cyberattack
In a report yesterday by the New York Times(NYT), an anonymous source identified some of the information stolen in the December cyberattack on Google. The hacks prompted the company's withdrawal from the Chinese market. Google has only specified...
Bahrain bans sharing news on BlackBerrys
The Bahrain Ministry of Information and Culture announced a ban on sharing local news with BlackBerry mobile devices last week. A ministry official, Abdullah Yateem, said the ban was to prevent the “chaos and confusion caused by such news among the...
Philippines to stop “culture of impunity”
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for all presidential candidates standing in the Filipino general election in May to make pledges protecting journalists and to overturn the “country’s culture of impunity”. This move...