The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Friday that a blogger in Calvary faces five charges related to his website. John Kelly, 53, has long...
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Iran: Human rights activist and journalist gets six years
Iran has sentenced a human rights activist, Shiva Nazar Ahari who is the founder of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters in Tehran, to six years...
Pakistan: Editor beaten for flood allegations
Abdul Rehman Afridi, editor of the local newspaper Daily Sitara in Jacobabad, Sindh province and vice president of the Jacobabad Press Club was...
UK: Wayne Rooney sues the Daily Mirror
Footballer Wayne Rooney has launched legal action against the Daily Mirror for breach of privacy. Rooney is suing the newspaper after it published...
Somalia: Two independent radio stations attacked
Two independent radio stations were attacked by Islamist militia in Mogadishu on 19 September. Radio Horn Afrik was vandalised and looted by...
Russia: Gay rights activist released
A Russian gay rights activist who went missing from a Moscow airport last week, said he was kidnapped by state security agents. Nikolai Alekseyev...
Mexico: News photographer shot dead
A 21-year-old photographer for a newspaper in the crime-torn border city of Juárez, Mexico, was shot and killed, and an intern was wounded, in an...
USA: Artist goes into hiding after death threats
The artist who proposed an "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day" has gone into hiding on the advice of the FBI. Molly Norris was advised to move, change her...
Turkey: Hrant Dink’s family to get compensation
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 14 September that Turkey must pay compensation to the family of murdered journalist Hrant Dink. The...
Azerbaijan: a bleak landscape
Conditions for journalists are worsening in the run up to elections, reports Natasha Schmidt in Baku
Russia: Editor in libel case after “nest of vipers” comment
The editor of opposition newspaper Listok has been charged with defamation after calling the administration of the Altai republic a "nest of...
Germany: Thousands protest against government database
Over 7,500 people joined a rally in Berlin on 12 September to appeal for greater data privacy. The demonstration expressed concerns about a...