Video game Bulletstorm will be released in heavily-censored form in Germany. Regulators will remove several features from the full version,...
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Syria unblocks Facebook and Youtube
Syria has restored access to video sharing website youtube and social networking website facebook. Access to youtube had been blocked in August 2007...
Venezuelan journalist prosecuted for criminal libel
Journalist Gustavo Azócar is being prosecuted again on the charge of libelling an army officer in 2004. This comes as part of a series of actions...
Iran: Journalist sentenced to four years in prison and 60 lashes
Iranian journalist Siamak Qaderi was sentenced to four years in prison and 60 lashes on 21 January. Qaderi, a blogger, was charged disseminating of...
Expelling journalists: a long-established FSB policy
Russia’s expulsion of the Guardian’s Luke Harding is part of a policy of attempting to control reportage, say Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
Egypt: New accreditation rules for journalist
Egyptian authorities have started confiscating existing press cards from journalists and asking them to contact the Ministry of Information to...
Ben Ali and Mubarak: Brothers in arms
Tunisia’s uprising has transfixed Egypt’s elite but Mubarak’s survival strategy proves he has learnt nothing from Ben Ali’s fall, writes
Kamel Labidi
Obama intervention puts Yemen reporter in jail
Journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should have been released from prison as part of concessions to protesters in Yemen. But a phone call from the US president has kept him behind bars. Iona Craig reports
Wikileaks, Belarus and Israel Shamir
Index on Censorship is concerned that leaked documents may be used against opposition activists in Belarus
Controversial Chinese journalist talks to Index
Last month top columnist Chang Ping lost his job— he says his dismissal was part of crackdown on the domestic media. Here he answers questions from Dinah Gardner