In an open letter posted on Chinese-language website Boxun.com, a group of more than 20 Chinese lawyers, writers, and intellectuals accuse state...
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Nepal: reporter stabbed to death
A group of around 15 unidentified people attacked and killed 24-year old radio and newspaper reporter Uma Singh, in her home in the southeastern...
Coverage of Sri Lankan reporter’s murder censored
Reports on the murder of editor Lasantha Wickramatunga have been censored by the Sri Lankan authorities to remove criticism of the government....
Israel: Press anger over continued censorship
Frustration is growing over Israel's refusal to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip. Padraig Reidy reports The Foreign Press Association in Israel...
Sri Lanka: reporter killed
Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was killed after being shot twice in the head on 8 Dec as he drove to work in Sri...
Indian editor held on defamation charges
BV Seetaram, chairman and chief editor of Chitra Publications, whose primary publication is the Mangalore-based newspaper Karavali, has been...
Transsexual Turkish singer acquitted
Bulent Esroy, a popular transsexual singer in Turkey, was acquitted yesterday of charges of ‘turning the people against military service’. Esroy had...
MPs to call for an end to libel tourism
Senior MPs from all the major parties will tomorrow ask the government to end the practice of wealthy foreign people using British libel law and...
A blip on the radar
On the anniversary of the murder of independent journalist Deyda Hydara (right), Dawn Starin says the media must turn its attention to The Gambia,...
Overstepping the mark
A nuclear whistleblower and BBC journalists are being unjustly pursued, says Chris Ames Why is the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)...