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By: Malavika Jagannathan
Date: 05 Jun 2012
A court in Kuwait has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for endangering state security by insulting the Prophet Muhammad and the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in messages on Twitter.
Hamad al-Naqi was also found guilty of mocking Islam and provoking sectarian tensions.
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By: Malavika Jagannathan
Date: 05 Jun 2012
A court sentenced a Thai webmaster last week to an eight-month suspended sentence for not moving quickly enough to delete online comments deemed insulting to the country's royalty in a case widely seen as a test of freedom of expression in Thailand. Chiranuch Premchaiporn had faced up to 20 years in prison for failing to quickly remove 10 comments others had posted on her Prachatai news website.
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By: Malavika Jagannathan
Date: 04 Jun 2012
Rogue copies of Green Simurgh, an Internet proxy software application used in Iran and Syria, have been found to contain malware that records users' activities and keystrokes.
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By: Malavika Jagannathan
Date: 04 Jun 2012
Google has began to offer search users in China suggestions about which words run foul of the country's strict censors.
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By: Malavika Jagannathan
Date: 04 Jun 2012
China's Internet monitors have unleashed a broad clampdown on online discussion of the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, restricting even discussion of the nation's main stock market when it fell by a number that hinted at the sensitive date.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 12 Mar 2012
India drops U.N. proposal to create an international Internet regulatory committee.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 12 Mar 2012
Reporters Without Borders names Bahrain, Belarus "enemies of the Internet" following crackdowns on cyber dissidents in both countries.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 12 Mar 2012
Internet hacker group "Anonymous" threatens impending blackout on March 31, 2012 in retaliation for FBI sting on several of the group's key members.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 09 Mar 2012
Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered the creation of an online oversight agency to be known as the Supreme Council of Cyberspace.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 09 Mar 2012
Countries such as Russia, China, North Korea, Iran are lobbying for the creation of an international Internet regulatory agency under the U.N., known as the International Telecommunications Union, raising some concerns for internatiponal online freedom.
