Plans to intensify South Korea's review of web content, including social networking sites and mobile phone applications have been released. The...
South Korea : Review of social media boosted
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India asks Google, Facebook to screen user content
The Indian Government have asked internet companies and social media organisations to censor internet content before it goes online. India's acting...
Somalia: Journalists arrested in clampdown
Two journalists have been arrested in Somalia after police refused to accept their press cards. Salad Tifow Hassan and Qadar Hussein Ahmed...
Zimbabwe: Police storm offices, journalist arrested
Zimbabwean police stormed the offices of a daily newspaper, and arrested one of it's journalists last week. Xolisani Ncube of Daily News was...
Azerbaijan: Supreme Court upholds Bakhtiyar Hajiyev judgment
The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the sentence of a young activist and blogger on 6 December. Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was sentenced to two...
Iran: foreign media banned from anti-British rallies
Foreign media have been banned from covering rallies in front of British diplomatic missions in Iran. The ban, which began on Thursday is the latest...
Peru: Mob vandalises newspaper office
The newsroom of a Peruvian newspaper was attacked by a mob in the early hours of Thursday morning (1 December). The offices of El Sol de los Andes...
Exiled Rwandan journalist gunned down in Uganda
A Rawandan journalist has been shot dead at point blank range in the Ugandan capital Kampala, where he was exiled. Charles Ingabire, editor of...
Zimbabwe: Retired colonel launches defamation suit
A Zimbabwean newspaper is facing a defamation suit from a retired colonel. ZANU-PF member Claudius Makova is suing local paper the Masvingo...
Mexico: Slander and libel decreminalised
Slander and libel have been decriminalised by the Mexican Senate. The senate approved the repeal of Articles 1 and 31 of the Crimes Act, with a...
Ukraine: Young news photographer stabbed to death
A young photographer was stabbed to death in Kiev on Monday night. Vitaly Rozvadovsky, a photographer for the Ukrainian weekly 2000, was stabbed at...
Pakistan: Reporter injured in shoot out
A TV journalist in Pakistan was shot and critically injured during a riot on Sunday. Ehsan Kohati, a senior reporter for the Waqt News TV channel...
