Writer and campaigner Arundhati Roy is currently under investigation by Chhattisgarh police for her article “Walking with the Comrades”, published...
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Hong Kong apologises for caption blunder
The South China Morning Post issued a formal apology on Wednesday after misprinting a front page photograph caption of President Hu Jintao arriving...
BBC restores service in Sri Lanka
BBC World Service has restarted its FM broadcasts with SLBC, the Sri Lankan national broadcaster after a 14-month long absence. In a press release...
Ukrainian journalists targeted and attacked
Journalists from television channel TVi have written an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, demanding that he intervene to stop...
Rwandan government suspends newspapers
Rwanda’s Media High Council(MHC) has suspended two independent newspapers just months before a presidential election. The press body has suspended...
Zimbabwean minister sues newspaper for defamation
A Zimbabwean government minister is suing a newspaper for defamation after it published accusations of corruption. The state-owned Chronicle...
‘Phallic’ sculpture provokes clash ahead of Pope’s Malta visit
The Maltese Front Against Censorship said that it believes that a penis-like sculpture at Luqa should not be removed before the Pope visits the...
Moldavan journalist arrested for spying in breakaway republic
Acting Moldavian president, Mihai Ghimpu, has condemned the arrest of a journalist in the breakaway republic of Transnistria. On April 7, Ernest...
Kazakhstan: Web browser which bypasses censorship proves popular
Opera has become Kazakhstan's most popular web browser in the country, because it allows users to bypass internet censorship. According to Web...
Music banned from radio in Somalia
Islamist insurgents have banned music from radio broadcasts claiming its un-Islamic. Stations have already complied with the order, issued at the...
ElBaradei supporters deported from Kuwait
At least 21 Egyptian expatriates have been arrested and deported from Kuwait for supporting Mohamed ElBaradei. The former head of the International...
Gambian political figure jailed for ‘unlawful assembly’
A prominent member of Gambia’s main opposition party has been sentenced to a year of hard labour on charges of “unlawful assembly”. The Media...