Reports are emerging that an injunction on the reporting of the case of Anat Kamm, an Israeli activist accused of leaking confidential military...
Israel: Anat Kamm gag order lifted
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Kuwait: Journalist gets six-month jail term for slander
Kuwaiti journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem was convicted of slander and sentenced to six months in prison on April 1 for publicly declaring...
Egyptian publisher detained by government
The publisher of the new book about Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear watchdog, was arrested by the Egyptian authorities on Saturday. ...
35 journalists incarcerated in Iran, more expected
CPJ’s latest monthly census reveals that as of April 1, about 35 journalists were imprisoned as a result of the Iranian government’s post-election...
WikiLeaks posts video showing journalists killed in Iraq
On 5 April, Wikileaks, the website that publishes sensitive leaked material, released a video showing a 2007 US military airstrike that killed about...
Iranian journalists released on bail in time for New Year
In past month many Iranian journalists and bloggers have been released on bail by authorities before the start of the Iranian New Year. Those...
Author arrested in Sri Lanka
Expatriate Sri Lankan author, Sarah Malini Perera, has been arrested in whilst on holiday Sri Lanka for writing two books— From Darkness to Light...
“There is no difference between journalism and intelligence”
Maziar Bahari was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for attempting to report on 2009’s disputed election. He describes his ordeal, and suggests what can be done to help journalists jailed by the Islamic Republic
Cyber Wars
Citizens, states and corporations are battling for online space. What happened to the dream of global communication? Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski report
EU calls for Iran to end jamming of foreign media
EU foreign ministers have described the current situation in Iran as “unacceptable”, in a joint statement they call for an end to the jamming of...