Australian service providers, including Telstra and Optus, will voluntarily block websites deemed by the government as showing and disseminating...
Australian internet providers employ censors
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Cisco will help build China’s surveillance project
US-based Cisco Systems Inc and Hewlett-Packard, along with a handful of other Western technology companies, are set to provide crucial network...
US links Pakistani spy agency to death of journalist Saleem Shahzad
White House officials believe that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence ordered the killing of Pakistani investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad...
US will prosecute Brits who pirate US-based media
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is shutting down websites based abroad that break US copyrights and and prosecuting their...
Syrian journalist Omar al-Asaad arrested
Officials arrested Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, on Sunday evening (3 July) at a funeral for a fellow protester killed in...
Ethiopia: Two Swedish journalists arrested
Swedish journalists, Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, were arrested by troops in Ethiopia when they were found travelling with rebels from the...
Belarus: Protesters arrested, journalists targeted in teargas attacks
Over 300 people were reportedly arrested on Sunday in nationwide demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko’s government. Teargas was...
Ethiopia: Detained journalists planned ‘sabotage’, say police
Two journalists detained on 19 and 21 June are suspected by police to have planned terrorists acts in Ethiopia. The police chief accused Woubishet...
Journalist arrested in Puntland
Authorities arrested Faysal Mohamed, a reporter for Hiraan Online, on Wednesday morning (29 June) in the semi-autonomous republic of Puntland in...
Mexican journalist receives death threats
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho told Mexican authorities on Thursday (30 June) that she has received anonymous death threats via phone and e-mail for...
Belarus cracks down on ‘silent’ protest
Belarusian police have grabbed and beaten over a dozen reporters, broken their equipment, and detained another 150 protestors at a political rally...
US: Judge refuses subpoena for blogger’s identity
Ronald Papandrea, a former assistant attorney of Warren, Michigan has dropped a libel case against an anonymous blogger known as 'Robert' after the...
