The Iranian authorities have launched a new webmail service intended to be a substitute for public employees currently using Gmail, Yahoo mail or...
CATEGORY: Digital Freedom
Court orders Mauritanian web editor’s retrial
The editor of Taqadoumy website Hanevy Ould Dehah remains in detention after a Supreme Court decision to retry him on a charge of 'offending...
Clinton to deliver speech on web freedom
Padraig Reidy: Hillary Clinton’s web freedom speech – the Index analysis
Australia: anti-censorship website censored
The Australian internet company, auDA that runs the .com.au domain registry has been accused of censoring a website satirising Australian...
Russian internet provider admits blocking websites
Claims of internet censorship have spread amongst the Russian blogosphere after the wireless internet service provider, Yota, admitted blocking...
Carter-Ruck: courts mugged by new web reality
Padraig Reidy: The Trafigura Twitter revolt shows the law cannot keep up with the culture of the Internet
Bahrain: government orders over 1,000 websites blocked
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications...
Mauritania: website editor imprisoned
Hanevey Ould Dehah, editor of the website Taqadoumy has been convicted on a charge of “offending public decency” and given a six month prison...
US tests technology to foil foreign web censorship
The U.S. government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that lets residents break through screens set up by their governments to limit...
Malaysia in web censorship U-turn
Malaysian rights activists have welcomed the government's decision not to implement a controversial plan to create an Internet filter blocking...