Human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, was summoned to a military court just hours before Bahrain was due to lift its emergency law. He is now...
Bahrain: Human rights activist missing
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Uganda: Website editor charged with criminal libel
A journalist appeared in Kampala Magistrates Court yesterday charged with criminal libel. Timothy Kalyegira, the editor of Uganda Record, a website...
Pakistan: Journalist Saleem Shahzad murdered
According to Pakistani news sources, the body of the Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online, has been found. He had been missing since Sunday....
Chinese officials seek to stifle protests in Inner Mongolia
Protesters took to the streets on Monday (30 May) in Inner Mongolia after Han Chinese coal truck drivers killed a Mongolian herder who attempted to...
China tightens television censorship
Hunan Broadcasting System, one of China’s largest television networks, has told the Financial Times it will reduce entertainment content and revamp...
US senator blocks controversial anti-piracy legislation
Just hours after the PROTECT IP Act passed unanimously in the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon placed...
EU plan to fight piracy may lead to internet policing, say critics
The European Commission’s plan to tackle internet copyright infringements, such as illegal media downloads, would require internet service providers...
Gunmen in Honduras target media: kill one, wound another
Three gunmen killed Channel 24 television owner Luis Ernesto Mendoza Cerrato last week. Gunmen also wounded newspaper manager Manuel Acosta Medina...
India censors the Economist over Kashmir map
The Indian government forced The Economist to use a sticker to conceal a map of Kashmir in the magazine. The magazine's cover story, which utilised...
Brazilian anti-logging activist shot dead
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, an outspoken opponent of illegal burning and logging in the Amazon rainforest, has been shot dead in an ambush near...
Al-Jazeera suspends Syrian bureau in response to attacks
Al-Jazeera suspended its Arabic services in Syria yesterday (27 April) in response to attacks on its staff and government restrictions. The...
Burundi: Regulator suspends talk show
Burundi's state-run media regulator, the National Communications Council, suspended a popular talk show on Monday (25 April) after a caller accused...