Hürriyet newspaper journalist Nurettin Kurt and editorial manager Hasan Kılıç face between one and three years imprisonment for publishing...
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Chinese academic banned from travelling to America
A prominent Chinese professor at the Beijing Film Academy, has been barred from leaving China to travel to America. Cui Weiping was due to give a...
Two journalists killed in Honduras
On 26 March, Bayardo Mairena and Manuel Juárez, were shot in their vehicle by unidentified gunmen, in Olancho, eastern Honduras. Both journalists...
Chávez opponent not allowed to speak with media
On 28 March, Wilmer Azuaje was banned by Venezuela's highest court from speaking to the media about criminal charges alleging he struck a police...
IPI: Uganda ‘stifling’ independent media
The International Press Institute has accused the Ugandan government of conducting a “well-planned campaign to stifle the media” ahead of next...
Venezuela: Opposition Leader Detained
Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, former presidential candidate and leader of the Christian Socialist Copei party, was detained by police on 22 March and has...
Radio journalist held in DRC
A radio broadcaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been arrested and questioned by intelligence agents for “broadcasting false information...
India: Writer charged with obscenity for debut novel
Author Murzban Shroff has been charged with obscenity and making “prejudicial” remarks to “national integration” in his novel Breathless in Bombay....
EU calls for Iran to end jamming of foreign media
EU foreign ministers have described the current situation in Iran as “unacceptable”, in a joint statement they call for an end to the jamming of...
Turkish director faces jail for insulting PM
Haldun Açıksözlü, actor and director of the theatre play Laz Marks, faces two years in jail over allegations that he insulted the prime minister in...
United Arab Emirates blocks “Allah’s facebook page”
United Arab Emirates’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has ordered ISPs to block a Facebook page supposedly authored by Allah. The TRA...
Belarus strips journalists’ rights as election looms
Belarus’s Supreme Court has stripped the Belarusian Association of Journalist’s (BAJ) ability to offer protection to journalists who are not...