Malaysian authorities arrested and detained 30 opposition members for planning a protest rally to be held on 9 July. The Malaysian prime minister,...
Malaysian activists detained for planning rally
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India: Journalist beaten by police
Shalabh Mani Tripathi, Bureau Chief of Hindi news channel IBN, has claimed that he was beaten by police for his reporting on a medical officer found...
Russia: Oleg Kashin defeats libel claim
Russian journalist, Oleg Kashin, has won the right to speculate about the identity of two men who beat him with iron rods. Kashin spent five days in...
Belarus: Protesters use social media to organise co-ordinate efforts
Activists used popular Russian social network, Vkontakte, and Twitter hashtag, #2206v1900, to organise protest action in towns all over Belarus on...
China: Imprisoned journalist faces another 8 years
Just two weeks shy of his release, imprisoned journalist Qi Chonghuai, has now been sentenced to another eight years on charges of embezzlement,...
Somalia: Two radio stations silenced in twenty-four hours
Members of the Sufi group, Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ), shut down Radio Dhusamareb of central Somalia on Wednesday evening. Seven masked intruders...
Brazilian journalist and politician shot to death
Journalist and political leader, Edinaldo Figueira, was shot to death on 15 June. He founded a Brazilian newspaper and was president of a branch of...
Syrian protesters in UK report threats
Syrian anti-government protesters in London have received threatening phone calls and house visits from Syrian embassy officials, they claim. Though...
Iraq: Cameraman killed by car bomb
Afaq.tv cameraman, Salem Alwan Al-Gharabi, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in southern Iraq on Tuesday. At least 27 people were killed in the...
China: Censors close whistle blowing site
A website allowing Chinese citizens to blow the whistle on official bribery, www.ibribery.com, has been shut down. Site creator Chen Hong copied the...
Swaziland: Journalist detained and accused of tainting country’s image
Swazi journalist Mancoba Nxumalo was held by police on Wednesday (22 June) and accused of "tarnishing" the Kingdom's image, he has claimed. The...
Northern Ireland: Press Association photographer shot in the leg as Belfast violence erupts
Press Association photographer Niall Carson, who was covering violence in east Belfast was shot in the leg during a riot on Monday night. Stones,...
