Blogger and author Zoe Margolis has been awarded a "five-figure" amount in costs and damages from the Independent on Sunday after the newspaper...
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McKinnon extradition “on hold”
The extradition of UK hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States has been put on hold by the new Home Secretary, Theresa May. McKinnon is wanted by...
Tibet: Photocopying to require ID registration
Anyone wishing to reproduce printed or written material in Lhasa will have to undergo real-name ID registration due to a new ruling announced on 10...
Facebook banned in Pakistan
Pakistan blocked access to Facebook today over the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day event on 20 May. A judge at Lahore's High Court issued an interim...
Journalist casualties in Thai clashes
The South East Asia Press Alliance’s statement on media casualties in Bangkok
Mauritania: Veiled women banned from courtroom
Security forces in Mauritania have banned veiled women from entering a courtroom where a terrorism case is being heard. Veiled women were also...
Swords, sandals sex and swearing
Natalie Haynes: The morality police have set their sights on Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Kuwait: Hunger strike journalist hospitalised
A Kuwaiti journalist was hospitalised over the weekend after refusing medication and beginning a hunger strike in protest at his 11 May arrest....
Madagascar: Station employees attacked by soldiers
Staff at radio station Fréquence Plus were been attacked by police during live interview with opposition politician Ambroise Ravinson. Three...
Saudi Arabia: Al-Watan editor resigns
Jamal Khashoggi has stepped down as editor-in-chief of al-Watan after the progressive Saudi newspaper published a controversial opinion piece...