Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja has been arrested today while protesting on Budaiya street, according to local reports. Shortly before being...
Bahrain: Blogger Zainab Alkhawaja (Angry Arabia) arrested
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New York Times journalists detained at protest in Bahrain
New York Times journalists Nicholas Kristof and Adam Ellick were briefly detained by security forces yesterday at a protest in the Bahraini village...
Bahraini activists allegedly threatened by former government official on Twitter
Several Bahraini human rights activists have been sent threatening twitter messages during the past few days. Hostile messages were allegedly to...
Egyptian blogger denied release misses birth of child
Detained blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah (@alaa) was denied a request to be released from detention by the High State Security Court on 5 December,...
Egypt: self-censorship and the military hinder press freedom
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Syrian blogger arrested while traveling to press freedom conference
It has been reported that a US-born Syrian blogger was arrested on Sunday. In a statement, the Syrian Centre for Media and Free Expression said that...
China: Petitioners beaten when visiting Chen Guangcheng
A group of petitioners attempting to visit blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng were beaten on 30 October. According to petitioner Zhu Jindi, as...
International rights groups condemn unfair trial of UAE 5
Index on Censorship and six other international rights groups call for the five activists known as the UAE 5 to be released from detention and the charges against them to be dropped
France: Magazine petrol-bombed after printing cartoon of prophet Mohammed
The Paris-based office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly magazine, was petrol-bombed early this morning [2 November] in advance of the...
Saudi filmmakers arrested for YouTube video
Three Saudi men were detained on Sunday after a film they made exposing poverty in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, was aired on television. Feras...
Turkish man could face two-year prison sentence for Facebook comments
A Turkish man could face two years in prison for comments made about Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan on his Facebook page. A public prosecutor in...
United Kingdom: Russian billionaire wins libel suit against Sunday Times
Yelena Baturina, one of Russia's wealthiest women, has won damages from The Sunday Times after the newspaper wrongly reported that she purchased a...