The publicly-owned television channel TSR last week agreed to remove a series of cartoons which satirised child sex abuse by Catholic priests from...
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Uighur PEN member barred from travelling abroad
Ilham Tohti, Uighur academic and PEN member has been banned from attending a Turkic Culture conference in Izmir, Turkey. Reports claim police...
Nepal: Hindu restoration group burns newspapers
Hindu Yuva Sangh burnt copies of the leading Nepali newspapers, Kantipur and Annapurna Post on 18 April in the southern city of Birgunj. The newly...
Seventh journalist murdered in Honduras
Georgino Orellana, a producer and presenter for Television de Honduras, is the seventh journalist to be murdered in Honduras in the past six weeks....
Cambodian newspaper attacked
Boay Roeuy, journalist working for Khmer Machas Srok, a Cambodian newspaper with ties to the Sam Rainsy Party, has alleged that he has been...
Photographer killed in Colombia
On 16 April an independent photojournalist, was killed at his home in Ibagué. Arsenio Zambrano Ocampo, 62, was stabbed to death by two attackers,...
Journalists prevented from covering Iraqi protests
Journalists were assaulted by police officers while covering protests in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan on 17 and 20 April. On Saturday, media...
Ukraine: President vows to protect free speech
President Viktor Yanukovych has said he will support journalists' right to free expression. Yanukovych was responding a police attack on...
Facebook deletes Wikileaks fan page
On 20 April, Wikileaks tweeted claiming that their Facebook fan page was deleted by Facebook for violation of the Terms of Service. According to...
Iran’s reformist movement hit again
Two political parties were suspended, a newspaper banned and three political figures sentenced to prison by the Iranian authorities on Monday....
Indonesian blasphemy law overruled
Human rights groups have criticised the Indonesian constitutional court's decision to uphold a controversial 45 year-old blasphemy law yesterday....
US approves anti-filtering software for Iran
The anti-internet filtering software, Haystack, received the necessary export license from the US government last week to sell their product to Iran...