Two British journalists who were arrested and accused of spying by a Libyan militia group have been released. Gareth Montgomery-Johnson and Nicholas...
Libya: British journalists freed
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Saudi Arabia: Website managers held without charge
Three Saudi web managers from news websites which cover political unrest are being held in prison without charge. Habib Ali al-Maatiq and Hussein...
China: Ai Weiwei says censors removed his microblog
A crack in China's firewall allowed dissident artist Ai Wei Wei to use a Twitter-like social media account for a short time on Sunday, before it...
Egypt: Oscar-winning Iranian film banned from screening at Cairo University
An Egyptian university banned the screening of an award winning Iranian film last week. The film A Separation"was due to be screened at Cairo...
Venezuela: Armed group accuses Globovisión of hiring paramilitaries to create mayhem
Venezuelan TV channel Globovisión have been accused of hiring paramilitary men to be involved in armed stand-offs on 10 March, resulting in two...
Kazakhstan: Labour rights lawyer Natalia Sokolova released, but with restrictions
A union lawyer freed from prison by authorities in Kazakhstan on 7 March has been banned from resuming her activism. Natalia Sokolova was found...
Burma: Ministry to sue journal over corruption claims
Burma's mining ministry have said they will file a lawsuit against a news journal following allegations of corruption. An article in weekly...
Belarus: Journalist stopped from leaving country
Andrej Dynko, managing editor of independent Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva and Index on Censorship contributor, was ordered to get off a train...
PayPal backtracks on disputed ‘obscene’ e-book policy
Online payment service PayPal have backtracked on a policy against processing sales of e-books containing themes of rape, bestiality or incest....
Syria: Foreign media threatened, journalists missing
Arab and foreign media who are in Syria "illegally" are being threatened by the information ministry. On 9 March, authorities threatened to take...