A Burmese monk jailed for his involvement in 2007 protests faces further charges for breaking both the law and the Buddhist monks' code of...
Burma: Dissident monk prosecuted
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
Australia: Google urges rejection of web regulation
Google has urged the Australian federal government to reject an interim independent report recommending the country's internet be regulated in a...
China: Reporters attacked while covering protest
Journalists from French broadcaster France 24 and the Netherlands Press Association were attacked yesterday in Panhe, Zhejiang province, while...
China: More Internet regulation planned
The Chinese government plans to continue censoring social networking sites, the the Communist Party and State Council has said regarding China’s...
Afghanistan: Cameraman attacked with acid in Kabul
Parviz Safi, a cameramen for state-owned English-language TV station Press TV, was attacked with acid by three unidentified men on 6 February in the...
China: Dissident Zhu Yufu jailed for seven years over poem
Veteran Chinese dissident Zhu Yufu has been sentenced to seven years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" after he shared his poem...
Malaysia: Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari deported
Malaysian authorities have deported a Saudi journalist accused of insulting the prophet Mohammed on Twitter, it was reported today. Newspaper...
New film tells story of Sri Lankan journalists forced into exile
“I believe a journalist can change the world,” says exiled Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe, “if not why are we here then”. Sonali is one...
India: How to silence a nation
Legal proceedings have been filed against the four authors that read aloud from Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic verses.
Salil Tripathi explains how outdated Colonial-era legislation is being used to curtail free expression.
Balochistan: Urdu-language TV stations suspended
Urdu-language television stations available via cable were suspended in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan province on Wednesday, after the Cable...
South Korea: Photographer indicted over North Korea propaganda tweets
South Korean prosecutors indicted a social media and free speech activist on Tuesday for reposting tweets from a North Korean government website....
China: Several Tibetan-language sites offline
Several Tibetan-language blogs hosted in China are reported to have gone offline today, amid a period of severe unrest. AmdoTibet's blog section has...
