9 September 10 - From BBC News: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad caused anger in 2006. Read

4 September 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: As millions of Pakistanis continue to suffer from the flooding that has hit a fifth of the country, journalists’ organisations and media support groups are stepping up their efforts to help news media and journalists in the affected (...) Read

4 September 10 - From Radio Free Europe: There have been calls for the release of Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, ahead of the scheduled start of her trial on September 4, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Read

2 September 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: Dunya TV reporter Hafiz Muhammad Imran Shehzad has just been the target of an apparent murder attempt in Sialkot, in the northeastern province of Punjab, because his coverage of the lynching of two brothers in the presence of police officers in (...) Read

31 August 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: RSF condemns the two-year jail sentences that have been imposed on Sonam Rinchen and Sonam Dhondup, two students who helped to edit the Tibetan student magazine Namchak. Read

27 August 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: Chinese journalists and media are increasingly finding themselves the targets of threats and censorship by private-sector companies (and some state companies as well). Read

23 August 10 - From CNN: Two opposition leaders and a human rights activist were detained in Russia on Sunday after taking part in rallies marking the country’s National Flag Day, the Interfax news agency reported. Read

21 August 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: RSF deplores yesterday’s decision by the supreme court to impose a six-month jail sentence on Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of the opposition daily Amar Desh, and a one-month jail sentence on Oliullah Noman, one of his reporters, for contempt of (...) Read

21 August 10 - In the last 10 months, 64 journalists have been killed in Mexico and 12 more have gone missing, according to the governmental National Human Rights Commission. Read

17 August 10 - From Reporters Without Borders: The website of the Russian Centre for the Protection of Forests, also known as Roslesozashchita (www.rcfh.ru), has been inaccessible since 13 August, shortly after it contradicted the government by reporting that forest fires had reached areas that were (...) Read