Four journalists have been shot amidst clashes between Red Shirt protestors and the military in the past week. One Canadian reporter and three Thai...
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Obama to sign Freedom of Press Act
President Obama is to sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act today. The bill is designed to identify countries where press freedom is being...
Kuwaiti media banned from reporting on Iran ‘spy ring’
The Kuwaiti media have been banned from reporting on the dismantling of an Iranian spy network by prosecutor-general Hamed Saleh Al-Othman. The spy...
Egyptian author faces jail for insulting Copts
Egyptian author Youssef Ziedan faces a five-year jail term after being accused of insulting Christianity in his prize-winning novel Azazeel...
PAST EVENT: Compass Conference 2010 – “Why has the Left become so illiberal?”
Why has the Left become so illiberal? Compass Conference 2010, 12 June
PAST EVENT: Georgian Film Night, 14 May
EPIC Short Films- Georgian Film Night, 14 May
Turkey: Newspaper fined over article criticising army
On 7 May, two newspaper employees were fined over an article criticising the Turkish army’s system of patronage. Over 300 army generals sued the...
Belarus: Journalists barred from activist’s trial
Two journalists were barred yesterday from the trial of a party activist who hung up a white-red-white flag. Syarhei Serabro and Uladzimir...
Pakistan: Journalist’s mutilated body found
The body of 30-year-old journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani was found by police outside Dadu on 10 May. According to the president of the Dadu Press...
Canada: No constitutional right to protect sources, court rules
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that journalists do not have the constitutional right to protect the identity of their sources. The judgment...
Murder sparks angry protests by Iraqi Kurds
Hundreds of university students assaulted a local parliament building in Erbil, the capital of Iraqs semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on 10 May. The...
Filmmaker ordered to release Amazon footage to oil company
On 6 May, a US federal judge ruled that Chevron could subpoena footage from "Crude", a documentary about the company's involvement in the pollution...