A citizen journalist has been sentenced to death in Syria, after giving a series of interviews to Al-Jazeera TV station. Mohammed Abdelmawla...
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Pakistan: Twitter restored after temporary block
Pakistani authorities have restored access to micro-blogging platform Twitter, after temporarily blocking it because of messages deemed "offensive...
Political cartoons flourishing
Dictators do not like to be ridiculed. They fear bold political cartoonists. Ousted Tunisian President Zeine el-Abidin Ben Ali made sure that the...
Bahrain: journalist arrested
A journalist critical of the proposed union between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia has been arrested in Manama. Freelance journalist Ahmed Radhi was...
Prominent Egyptian talk show host resigns
A "farewell note" from prominent Egyptian journalist and popular talk show host Yosri Fouda, posted on his Facebook wall and published in Al Badeel...
Pakistan: Three journalists beaten by police
Three journalists have been beaten by police officers in northwest Pakistan. Sher Ali Khan from TV station News One, Siraj Ali of Geo News,...
Al-Oula newspaper boss ends hunger strike
Nebil Jridet, General Director of the Arabic-language weekly newspaper Al-Oula has ended his hunger strike. Jridet spent seven days on hunger strike...
Iraq: Kurdish authorities arrest magazine editor
The editor of a Iraqi Kurdish magazine has been arrested for reprinting an allegedly blasphemous article. Hamin Ary, editor of Kurdish and Arabic...
Pakistan: Journalist killed by kidnappers
The dead body of a kidnapped Pakistani journalist was discovered in Karachi last week. Tariq Kamal was kidnapped on 6 May, along with his...
Iran: MP withdraws complaint against cartoonist after outcry
A sentence handed to an Iranian cartoonist may be quashed after the MP who brought the case withdrew his complaint. Mahmoud Shokraye faced 25 lashes...