A Burmese monk jailed for his involvement in 2007 protests faces further charges for breaking both the law and the Buddhist monks' code of...
Burma: Dissident monk prosecuted
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Thailand: Webmaster’s lèse majesté trial resumes
The trial of the web master of a Thai news website resumed last week after a long interruption.Chiranuch Premchaiporn, web master of Prachatai news...
Singapore: PM demands apology from dissident website
Singapore's prime minister has demanded an apology from a political website, following allegedly defamatory posts. In a letter to the editors of...
Tunisia: Journalists arrested in morality dispute
Three Tunisian journalists have been arrested on charges of offending public morality following the publication of a nude photograph. The...
Australia: Google urges rejection of web regulation
Google has urged the Australian federal government to reject an interim independent report recommending the country's internet be regulated in a...
Russia: Expelled French journalist allowed to return
Russia's head of Federal Migration has said that the decision to expel prominent French journalist and author Anne Nivat earlier this week was...
Trinidad: Police raid newspaper
Police in Trinidad raided the daily newspaper Newsday on 9 February and searched the home of one of its journalists, seizing three computers and two...
Syria: Free expression activists arrested
Activists in Syria have reported that the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression in Damascus was raided today. Between 12 and 14 people...
China: Reporters attacked while covering protest
Journalists from French broadcaster France 24 and the Netherlands Press Association were attacked yesterday in Panhe, Zhejiang province, while...
Bahrain: Hunger strike activist collapses
Bahraini activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja collapsed last night while on hunger strike. Alkhawaja, who went on hunger strike ahead of the February 14...