No one could have ever predicted that China would backtrack on its promises of free and unfettered access for foreign journalists covering the Olympics.

The Russian prosecutor's office wants tough anti-extremism laws to be extended to the Internet, state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported on Wednesday, prompting fears of growing media censorship.

A group of around 15 Tibetan months have staged a protest in front of foreign journalists at a Buddhist monastery in China's northwestern Gansu province.

The United States internet provider Network Solutions says it first wants to view the anti-Qur'an film Fitna produced by Dutch populist MP Geert Wilders before deciding whether to allow him to post the film.

Writer Temel Demirer from Turkey stands before the Ankara Penal Court N2 for his calling to recognize Armenian Genocide.

In response to the arrest on Tuesday of three people who allegedly were planning to kill the artist who drew the cartoon, Kurt Westergaard. five major newspapers in Denmark have reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

The popular video website YouTube has been blocked in Turkey once more. Several sources quote complaints against a video that insults Atatürk, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, as the reason for the block. On Friday, internet users in Turkey found the website replaced by a notice saying:

“ Access to this web site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2008/55 of T.R. Ankara 12th Criminal Court of Peace.

During the past month, tens of thousands of Venezuelan students have led massive demonstrations protesting President Hugo Chavez' decision to shut down the country's most popular private television station.

The Venezuelan Supreme Court has ordered a private television station to surrender its transmission equipment to the government, which is shutting the station down.

A French court has dismissed the case against a satirical weekly newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.