Google said that its YouTube video-sharing website had been blocked in China. Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a...
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UK plans to monitor Facebook
The UK government has said that communications over social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace could be monitored in an effort to tackle...
Sir Ken Macdonald QC joins Index on Censorship
Sir Ken Macdonald QC, Former Director of Public Prosecutions, has joined the board of Index on Censorship. Sir Ken, a co-founder of leading human...
Police ‘misusing’ terror laws
A parliamentary report published by the Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned that counter-terrorism laws are being abused by police in their...
Journalist released, website reopened in Mauritania
Writer and journalist Abou Abbass Ould Brahim, the editor of the news website Taqadoumy, was released today after being held for three days in the...
Australia censors Wikileaks page
Australia has blacklisted a webpage from the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks containing an index of URLs censored by Danish authorities. The...
Egypt moves towards religious freedom
The ‘religion’ section in Egyptian national identity cards may now be left blank, after a court ruling on 16 March. Computerised ID cards were...
Al Khaiwani receives second pardon
Journalist Abdulkarim Al Khaiwani has been pardoned again by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Al Khaiwani had already been pardoned last September...
Singapore: WSJ charged with contempt
A senior editor of the Wall Street Journal is being taken to court by the Singapore government. On Friday 13 March a High Court judge granted an...
Shoe thrower jailed for three years
Muntazer al Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who sparked headlines worldwide after throwing his shoe at George Bush, has been sentenced to three years in...