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Kuwait: Hunger strike journalist hospitalised
A Kuwaiti journalist was hospitalised over the weekend after refusing medication and beginning a hunger strike in protest at his 11 May arrest....
Madagascar: Station employees attacked by soldiers
Staff at radio station Fréquence Plus were been attacked by police during live interview with opposition politician Ambroise Ravinson. Three...
Saudi Arabia: Al-Watan editor resigns
Jamal Khashoggi has stepped down as editor-in-chief of al-Watan after the progressive Saudi newspaper published a controversial opinion piece...
Privacy vs technology: UC Davis and Gmail conundrum
Elizabeth Stitt: Privacy versus tecnology on US campuses
Swaziland: Police disrupt activist’s funeral
The funeral of an anti-government activist who died in police custody has been postponed following the intervention of Swaziland's security forces....
Why did the Financial Times refuse Amnesty's Shell ad?
Padraig Reidy: Why did the FT refuse Amnesty’s Shell ad?
Thailand: Four journalists shot
Four journalists have been shot amidst clashes between Red Shirt protestors and the military in the past week. One Canadian reporter and three Thai...
Keep libel laws out of religion
Padraig Reidy: Keep libel laws out of religion
Obama to sign Freedom of Press Act
President Obama is to sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act today. The bill is designed to identify countries where press freedom is being...
Kuwaiti media banned from reporting on Iran ‘spy ring’
The Kuwaiti media have been banned from reporting on the dismantling of an Iranian spy network by prosecutor-general Hamed Saleh Al-Othman. The spy...
Egyptian author faces jail for insulting Copts
Egyptian author Youssef Ziedan faces a five-year jail term after being accused of insulting Christianity in his prize-winning novel Azazeel...
