The headquarters of Venezuelan newspaper Versión Final, in the city of Maracaibo, was shot at nine times on 3 June, making the attack the third of...
Venezuela: Third news outlet attacked in a week
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Mexico: Constitutional amendment makes attacks on press a federal offence
A constitutional amendment was given final approval in Mexico yesterday [7 June] making attacks on the press a federal offence in Mexico. The...
China: Dissident found dead
Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, who was jailed for over 22 years after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, was found dead in a hospital ward in...
Yemeni journalist jailed for Facebook posts
A Yemeni court on Monday sentenced journalist Majed Karoot to one year in prison and fined him YR 200,000 for criticising local government officials...
Mexico: Columnist threatened after criticising presidential candidate
Political columnist Katia D’Artigues, of Mexican newspaper El Universal, has said she and her son have received death threats via Twitter for having...
Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab re-arrested
Index on Censorship award winner Nabeel Rajab was re-arrested yesterday for allegedly insulting citizens of a predominantly Sunni village on the...
UK: Spectator fined after admitting reporting breach
The Spectator has been ordered to pay £5,600 after admitting a November 2011 article about the trial of Stephen Lawrence's killers breached a court...
Belarus: Andrei Sannikov not allowed to leave country
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was removed from a train travelling from Minsk to Vilnius at a station near the Lithuanian...
China: Editor dismissed for online comments
The editor of a Chinese newspaper has been dismissed after posting comments online deemed critical of the government. Yu Chen, editor of the...
Kuwait: 10-year sentence for Twitter blasphemer
A Kuwaiti man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday after being convicted of endangering state security as a result of messages he sent on...