A Turkish politician has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after delivering speeches in the run up to elections in June 2011. Serafettin Halis,...
Turkey: Politician sentenced to 15 years in prison for campaign speeches
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Iraq: Car bomb kills TV presenter
A TV presenter has been killed by a car bomb in Iraq. Kamiran Salaheddin was killed at around 9pm on Monday (2 April) night, after a bomb placed...
Morocco: Rapper arrested for critical lyrics
A Moroccan rapper and activist was arrested by security forces last week, following claims that one of his songs is offensive to a public...
Peru: Journalist’s defamation conviction overturned
A Peruvian appeals court has overturned a criminal defamation conviction against a journalist who reported on local corruption. The court found that...
Latvia: Journalist assaulted
The publisher of a Latvian news website was attacked last week. Leonids Jakobsons, owner of the independent news website Kompromat was attacked by...
Syria: citizen journalist detained, reportedly tortured
A Syrian citizen journalist who has been detained by authorities since Wednesday has reportedly been tortured during his arrest. Ali Mahmoud Othman,...
Authorities ban books at Bahrain International Book Fair
Bahraini authorities banned several books from the country's international book fair, which was held between 22 March and 1 April. The Press and...
Bahrain: Journalist Ahmed Ismael Hassan al-Samadi dies as violence continues
A citizen journalist who was shot during a peaceful protest in Bahrain has died in hospital. Ahmed Ismael Hassan al-Samadi was shot in the thigh...
China: Journalist, critic, reportedly jailed
Reports have emerged suggesting a Chinese blogger who criticised a public official in his personal blog was secretly sentenced to prison in 2010....
Mexico: TV network faces bomb attack
National Mexican television network Televisa, based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, suffered a bomb attack on 25 March. No one was injured in the...