India sets BlackBerry utlimatum
The Indian government has told RIM, the Canadian manufaturers of BlackBerry mobile phones to either provide access to encryption or face a ban from 31 August onwards. The Indian government says the BES...
View ArticleChina: Blanket media ban on Xinjiang bomb
China’s Central Propaganda Department has placed a blanket ban on covering the explosion at Xinjiang, Western China, including the state-owned Xinhua News Agency who had allegedly already reported...
View ArticleAustralia: Pro-euthanasia advert outlawed
The government has opted to outlaw a pro-euthanasia advert on the grounds that it promotes suicide. The advert shows an actor speaking of suffering and disease, asking the government to listen to those...
View ArticleTurkey: BlackBerry faces ban
Research in Motion (RIM) faces a ban of BlackBerry data services in Turkey if it doesn’t obey new legislation requiring companies to hand over communication encryption keys to Information and...
View ArticleTurkish police raid journalists’ homes
Turkish police have detained 10 people, many of them journalists, in the latest crackdown on an alleged secularist network, which is accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. This follows...
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Burqa ban will not protect women
This article was originally published in July 2010 Proposed bans on face coverings are a reflection not on Islam, but on European insecurity, says Myriam Francois-Cerrah The Burqa debate has captured...
View ArticleWhy is Egypt banning porn?
Egypt is taking steps to enforce a ban on internet porn ordered by a Cairo court late last year. The ban was first ordered three years ago, but went unimplemented. This time it looks like it’s going to...
View ArticleUkraine: “Serious blow to media freedom”
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on Wednesday 16 September banning at least 38 international journalists and bloggers from Ukraine for one year. The decree, published on the...
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Egyptian court orders month-long ban on YouTube
Over the weekend, an Egyptian court approved a month-long ban on YouTube, for refusal to remove controversial anti-Islam film the Innocence of Muslims. In addition to a ban on YouTube, the same court...
View ArticleRap for rapper
London drill rapper Rico Racks has been jailed for three years for drug offences and banned from using certain words in his rap songs. This is not the first time rappers have been told by the courts...
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