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Pakistan: Leak reveals plans to control internet content
A leaked confidential document reveals that authorities are planning strict measures to control internet content. The guidelines, obtained by...
General’s team tried to have Rolling Stone profile censored
The author of the article which caused the resignation of the US commander of military operations in Afghanistan claims that members of General...
Ethiopia: US journalist expelled
Heather Murdock, a US journalist, has been expelled from Ethiopia. Local reports suggest her work as an investigative journalist in the restive...
India: Documentary banned for depicting insurgency
New Delhi's Central Board of Film Classification has refused to certify the documentary Flames of the Snow. The body stated that any film which...
Vietnam: BBC and Facebook partially blocked
The BBC and Facebook websites have been partially blocked. The news comes just a month after the authorities began installing tracking software on...
Israel: Director to appeal banning of spy documentary
Nir Toib, director of a banned film which exposed an espionage scandal within the Israel Defense Forces[IDF], is to appeal the documentary film's...
Albania: TV channel fined for exposing minister’s sex demands
A Tirana court has ordered Albania’s Top Channel TV to pay €400,000 compensation to Ylli Pango, the former Minister of Culture, Tourism, Youth and...
USA: $1bn YouTube copyright case dismissed
On 23 June, Viacom’s $1bn lawsuit against YouTube was thrown out by a US judge. The entertainment company had raised the claim citing widespread...
Syria: Human rights activist jailed for three years
Lawyer and human rights activist Muhannad al-Hassani was sentenced to three years in prison by the Damascus Criminal Court on Wednesday 23 June....
Russia’s rules of engagement
Independent Radio station Ekho Moskvy is well known in Russia as a bastion of free speech. Editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov tells Maria Eismont about everyday dealing with death threats, censorship and the Kremlin
Philippines: Three journalists killed in a week
Three Filipino journalists have been murdered in separate incidents over the last seven days. Sun FM broadcaster Desidario Carmangyan was shot on...