Journalists are no longer allowed to go any higher than base camp on Mount Everest, when visiting the Nepalese side of the mountain, which is the worlds highest. This comes after new regulations from the Government of Nepal restricted access to the mountain for all journalists.

The Russian website and newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent has been closed today after it broke the news that the Russian President Vladimir Putin Secretly divorsed his wife and is getting ready to get married with a gymnastic beauty Russian gymnast Alina Kabayeva.

This following is my response to an article published by the Turkish press, the article is called "Asimed Urges Wikipedia To Remove "semi-protection" Over Article On Armenian Allegations".

The website wikileaks.org has recently been brought back online following the lifting of a court injunction forcing the site to be taken down. A representative of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which supported Wikileaks, has told Wikinews their opinion of the court injunction. They have claimed that the lifting of the injunction was a "victory for the first amendment."

Killing of Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink a year ago in Istanbul, Turkey, proves no watershed.

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.

2007 was a bad year for freedom, according to a prominent rights-advocacy organization that has registered a global decline in political rights and civil liberties for the second consecutive year.

The US on Thursday said it expected all countries to respect fundamental human rights that assure freedom of religion and expression but refused to be drawn into the ongoing row over the alleged discrimination against ethnic-Indians in Malaysia.

Kazakhstan's minister of culture and information says his country is committed to developing freedom of speech. Speaking in Vienna, Yermukhamet Yertysbaev told the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that Kazakhstan also will ratify international agreements on civil, political, cultural, and economic rights.

The trial of 18 people charged in connection with the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has started in Istanbul. Dink was killed outside his Istanbul office on January 19. A 17-year-old Turk, Ogun Samast, confessed to the killing.

The Organization For Security And Cooperation In Europe says continuous harassment by Azerbaijani authorities is threatening the existence of independent media in Azerbaijan.

An independent United Nations human rights expert has voiced concern about press freedom in Azerbaijan while reporting that his recent meetings there offered hope that court decisions which have caused a prevailing sense of fear among journalists will be reviewed.