Pakistan blocked access to Facebook today over the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day event on 20 May. A judge at Lahore's High Court issued an interim...
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Mauritania: Veiled women banned from courtroom
Security forces in Mauritania have banned veiled women from entering a courtroom where a terrorism case is being heard. Veiled women were also...
Kuwait: Hunger strike journalist hospitalised
A Kuwaiti journalist was hospitalised over the weekend after refusing medication and beginning a hunger strike in protest at his 11 May arrest....
Zimbabwe bans protest during World Cup
Augustie Chihuri, Zimbabwe's police commissioner, has banned public demonstrations and protests during this summer's World Cup, taking place in...
Madagascar: Station employees attacked by soldiers
Staff at radio station Fréquence Plus were been attacked by police during live interview with opposition politician Ambroise Ravinson. Three...
Ukrainian president tries to ban embarrassing video
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT4no1-Hfqk On Monday, government officials attempted to prevent publication of an embarrassing video of President...
Saudi Arabia: Al-Watan editor resigns
Jamal Khashoggi has stepped down as editor-in-chief of al-Watan after the progressive Saudi newspaper published a controversial opinion piece...
Belarus: Gay march banned as more political activists arrested
A court has fined seven activists for participating in a gay pride march. Riot police forcibly detained activists on the Slavic Gay Parade in the...
Swaziland: Police disrupt activist’s funeral
The funeral of an anti-government activist who died in police custody has been postponed following the intervention of Swaziland's security forces....
Venezuela: Opposition leader freed pending trial
On 13 May, opposition figure Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, a critic of President Hugo Chavez, was freed on parole until his trial on charges of spreading...
Cuba: Blogger released from jail
On 14 May, a Cuban appeal court reduced a blogger's 20 months jail sentence to a fine of 300 pesos (12 dollars). Dania Virgen, who writes El Blog de...
Chilean president sells his TV Station
President Sebastián Piñera, who took power in March, agreed on 15 May to sell his TV Station, Chilevisión, to a local investment group for $130m...