Malaysia should repeal its colonial-era Sedition Act, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today amid a wave of criminal sedition cases against journalists and commentators that observers say are intended to intimidate critical voices into silence. Most recently, a Kuala Lumpur court on Friday charged a well-known political cartoonist with nine separate counts of sedition, defined […]

The Nigerian military has released two Al Jazeera journalists it had confined to a hotel in northeastern Nigeria for over a week, Al Jazeera confirmed in a statement. The network indicated that the two men, Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustapha, had returned to its bureau in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. The pair was reportedly freed […]

Leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested today at 3 p.m. (GMT +2) at his home, reportedly for tweeting on alleged instances of torture at Bahrain’s Jaw prison. According to Nedal Al Salman, a colleague of Rajab’s at the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, police surrounded Rajab’s home and escorted him away in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Nigerian military to release two Al Jazeera reporters it has confined to a hotel in northeastern Nigeria for over a week. The military has accused the reporters, Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustafa, of working without accreditation or clearance. But Al Jazeera said in a statement that […]