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Cambodian newspaper attacked
Boay Roeuy, journalist working for Khmer Machas Srok, a Cambodian newspaper with ties to the Sam Rainsy Party, has alleged that he has been...
Journalists prevented from covering Iraqi protests
Journalists were assaulted by police officers while covering protests in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan on 17 and 20 April. On Saturday, media...
Iran’s reformist movement hit again
Two political parties were suspended, a newspaper banned and three political figures sentenced to prison by the Iranian authorities on Monday....
Children of the disappeared
Dirty War abductions: A case involving the adopted heirs to an Argentinean media empire has reignited a row about press freedom. Ed Stocker reports
Indonesian blasphemy law overruled
Human rights groups have criticised the Indonesian constitutional court's decision to uphold a controversial 45 year-old blasphemy law yesterday....
US approves anti-filtering software for Iran
The anti-internet filtering software, Haystack, received the necessary export license from the US government last week to sell their product to Iran...
Password program stolen in Chinese Google cyberattack
In a report yesterday by the New York Times(NYT), an anonymous source identified some of the information stolen in the December cyberattack on...
Bahrain bans sharing news on BlackBerrys
The Bahrain Ministry of Information and Culture announced a ban on sharing local news with BlackBerry mobile devices last week. A ministry official,...
Philippines to stop “culture of impunity”
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for all presidential candidates standing in the Filipino general election in May to...