press freedom

The Cairo prosecutor's office summoned prominent journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa for investigations into claims that he insulted the…

Parliament speaker Ali Abdelaal and several members of parliament agreed on Tuesday to file a complaint with the prosecutor general…

Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday he had asked China whether its handling of the booksellers case violated the "one…

A US-based watchdog said Egyptian authorities should not support efforts to “silence the press” after the public prosecutor banned media…

Turkish authorities at Istanbul airport denied entry on Tuesday to a German public television journalist who arrived from Cairo and…

US President Barack Obama on Friday said he was troubled by trends in Turkey against a free press and said…

A Cairo misdemeanour court sentenced on Monday four journalists to three years in prison each on charges of 'publishing false…

Two prominent Turkish journalists from a leading opposition newspaper have been freed in the early hours of Friday after Turkey's…

Israeli border police on Tuesday briefly detained a pair of Washington Post journalists, including the newspaper's bureau chief, as they…

The family of an Iranian-British former BBC journalist who was detained last week in Tehran were told on Saturday that…