An Azerbaijani human rights activist was detained for more than 24 hours at Istanbul airport on Tuesday evening. Intigam Aliyev was returning to...
Azerbaijani human rights lawyer detained at Istanbul airport
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Alice Purkiss
Alice Purkiss
Zimbabwe: Media Monitoring Project staff detained
Staff from a Zimbabwean free expression organisation have been arrested and detained. Advocacy officers Molly Chimhanda and Fadzai December...
Iraqi Kurdistan: Riots lead to press freedom abuses
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Palestinian ministry raid social media conference
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South Korea : Review of social media boosted
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India asks Google, Facebook to screen user content
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Somalia: Journalists arrested in clampdown
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Zimbabwe: Police storm offices, journalist arrested
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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
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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...