Police in Somaliland arrested three journalists and six others last Wednesday (2 June), after activists leased a house next to that of the region's...
Somaliland: Journalists arrested over opposition flag
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US soldier arrested over Wikileaks Iraq video
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted that he had given a classified US combat video and top secret State...
Turkey: Journalists sentenced and fined for ‘propaganda’
Two employees of Turkey's Express periodical have been convicted of "making propaganda for a terrorist organisation". Journalist Irfan Aktan was...
Detained Armenian journalist freed
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DRC: Police arrested over death of human rights activist
Two policemen have been arrested, and the country's most senior policeman suspended from duty, after the death of a human rights activist in the...
Zimbabwe: Police disrupt newspaper launch
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Bangladesh shuts down pro-opposition newspaper
Sued by a holy man
Michael Harris interviews Hardeep Singh, the recent victor of the libel trial, His Holiness v Singh. What’s it like to be sued by a “holy man”?
Free Eynulla Fatullayev
Rights campaigners in London protest against continued persecution of jailed editor
Italy’s media unites in anger
Silvio Berlusconi plans to jail journalists who distribute the contents of bugged conversations. Giulio D’Eramo reports