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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...

by Alice Purkiss | 15 Mar 12

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...

by Alice Purkiss | 15 Mar 12

Venezuelan TV channel Globovisión have been accused of hiring paramilitary men to be involved in armed stand-offs on 10 March, resulting in two...

by Alice Purkiss | 15 Mar 12

A union lawyer freed from prison by authorities in Kazakhstan on 7 March has been banned from resuming her activism. Natalia Sokolova was found...

by Alice Purkiss | 15 Mar 12

Burma's mining ministry have said they will file a lawsuit against a news journal following allegations of corruption. An article in weekly...

by Marta Cooper | 14 Mar 12

Andrej Dynko, managing editor of independent Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva and Index on Censorship contributor, was ordered to get off a train...

by Alice Purkiss | 14 Mar 12

Online payment service PayPal have backtracked on a policy against processing sales of e-books containing themes of rape, bestiality or incest....

by Alice Purkiss | 14 Mar 12

Arab and foreign media who are in Syria "illegally" are being threatened by the information ministry. On 9 March, authorities threatened to take...

by Marta Cooper | 13 Mar 12

A radio broadcaster has been killed in Sabá, northern Honduras, making him the 18th journalist to be killed in the country since 2010. Fausto Elio...

by Alice Purkiss | 12 Mar 12

A doctor accused of carrying out forced "virginity tests" on female Egyptian protesters has been acquitted by a military court. Ahmed Adel was...