The Committee to Protect Bloggers is reporting that blogger Omid Reza Mir Sayafi has died in prison in Iran. Omid was sentenced in December to three years in jail.  Omid was accused of “insulting Iranian religious leaders and spreading propaganda” against the Iranian state. Human Rights Activists in Iran (translated from Arabic by Hamid Tehrani [...]

Senator Joe Lieberman Monday called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from YouTube. “Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training,” said the Senator said in his letter. “YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and [...]

Chinese authorities are considering new rules to regulate blogging and podcasting in China. Long Xinmin, director of China’s General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP), said March 12 that his administration, together with several other departments, is working on new rules on Internet publishing activities. Long said the rules will help guarantee freedom of speech [...]

Human rights group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) today announced its list of 13 worst “enemies of the Internet.” The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet. For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while former “enemies” Nepal, Libya and [...]

Defeated Singapore Democratic Party candidate Ms Chee Siok Chin has filed a summons in the High Court asking it to declare the results of the 2006 General Election null and void. She also wants the High Court to declare the ban on podcasting during the general election as unconstitutional. “The banning of podcasting and blogging [...]