Kuwaiti journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem was convicted of slander and sentenced to six months in prison on April 1 for publicly declaring...
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Honduras: Journalist flees country
On 28 March, José Alemán, a journalist with Tiempo newspaper fled the country after a series of attacks, including an incident when two...
Egyptian publisher detained by government
The publisher of the new book about Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear watchdog, was arrested by the Egyptian authorities on Saturday. ...
Brazil: Newspaper attacked with molotov cocktails
On 30 March 2010, the offices of the newspaper Leia o Jornal were attacked by two armed men with Molotov cocktails. The owner of the newspaper, José...
35 journalists incarcerated in Iran, more expected
CPJ’s latest monthly census reveals that as of April 1, about 35 journalists were imprisoned as a result of the Iranian government’s post-election...
WikiLeaks posts video showing journalists killed in Iraq
On 5 April, Wikileaks, the website that publishes sensitive leaked material, released a video showing a 2007 US military airstrike that killed about...
Missing Japanese journalist found in Afghanistan jail
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance Japanese journalist who has been missing since March 31, has been found imprisoned in the province of Baghlan,...
PAST EVENT: Beyond Surveillance
Beyond Surveillance – a series of screenings and discussions about surveillance technologies. 28 April. Brighton.
Google renounces Chinese internet licence
Google has failed to renew its internet content provider licence in China, which expired at the end of March. This will not affect its Google.cn...
PAST EVENT: Copyright, Copyleft
Copyright, Copyleft, Who Owns the Words? Hay Festival, 6 June
UK: Court rules original publisher not liable for search engine results
A publisher should not be held responsible for a libel created by the out-of-context publication of material by a search engine, the High Court has...
Google detects politically motivated malware attacks in Vietnam
Google's Security blog has revealed that a number of malicious malware attacks on Vietnamese computers have been specifically designed to spy on and...