Selim Sadak, mayor of the city of Siirt in south-eastern Turkey, was sentenced to 1 year's imprisonment on 26 April after being found guilty of...
Turkish mayor sentenced to one year detention for ‘Kurdistan’ reference
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Burma: Free Zarganar!
Supported by Index on Censorship, campaigners from across the UK and abroad are to converge on London’s Trafalgar Square on 3 May in support of Zarganar, Burma’s most famous comedian turned prisoner of conscience
Saudi Arabia breaks website censoring record
The Saudi Arabian government broke the Arabic record for the fastest time to block a new website, clocking in at just 15 hours. On 25 April, they...
Violent M.I.A music video banned on Youtube
Musician M.I.A's video for her new single Born Free has been banned from Youtube just days after it was released. The controversial video, directed...
Campaigners decry Sri Lanka’s new media minister
The newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, appointed Mervyn Silva as the deputy minister for media and information on Friday....
China tightens rules on protection of state secrets
An amendment to laws on guarding state secrets could force communication providers to cooperate with the country's security apparatus over the...
Robert Dee: the world's worst tennis player
Padraig Reidy: And the world’s worst tennis player is…
Egypt: Classic book faces ban
A team of lawyers called for the ban of Arabic classic A Thousand and One Nights on 17 April. The lawyers, from the "Actio popularis" group, filed a...
Nigerian journalists murdered
Three journalists were killed in two separate incidents on Saturday. Nathan S Dabak and Sunday Gyang Bwede from the Light Bearer, owned by the...
Indian government to answer allegations of phone-tapping
The Indian Government is to respond to the serious charges of having tapped the telephone conversations of four leading politicians, including the...