Access to the website of independent news agency Ferghana was blocked this week by telecommunications company Kyrgyztelecom in response to a formal...
Kyrgyzstan: News website blocked
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India: Journalist and family found dead at home
Indian journalist Chandrika Rai, his wife and two teenage children were found beaten to death in their home in Umaria, Madhya Pradesh state. Rai,...
Syria: Foreign journalists killed in Homs
Marie Colvin, veteran war reporter for the Sunday Times, was killed this morning with French photojournalist Remi Ochlik when a shell hit a...
UK: Ryan Giggs legally named as footballer behind Imogen Thomas ‘affair’ injunction
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs has been named in court for the first time as the Premier League footballer with a high-profile privacy injunction...
Chinese activist warned over launching website
A veteran Chinese pro-democracy campaigner based in Wuhan has been warned by state security police not to proceed with plans for a website aimed to...
Panama: Ecuadoran newspaper publisher offered asylum
Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli offered asylum to Ecuadoran publisher Carlos Pérez Barriga, one of the owners of the El Universo newspaper....
Turkish newspaper’s offices attacked in Paris and Cologne
The Paris and Cologne offices of a Turkish newspaper were attacked by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) last week. Zaman...
Syria: Razan Ghazzawi and female colleagues released
Blogger and free speech activist Razan Ghazzawi was released on Saturday along with her female colleagues, after being arrested and detained last...
Bahrain: Four foreign activists deported
Bahrain announced the deportation of four foreign activists for "taking part in illegal demonstrations" on 18 February, bringing the number of those...
Australia: Google urges rejection of web regulation
Google has urged the Australian federal government to reject an interim independent report recommending the country's internet be regulated in a...
Russia: Expelled French journalist allowed to return
Russia's head of Federal Migration has said that the decision to expel prominent French journalist and author Anne Nivat earlier this week was...
Trinidad: Police raid newspaper
Police in Trinidad raided the daily newspaper Newsday on 9 February and searched the home of one of its journalists, seizing three computers and two...