Egypt blogger jailed for 'insult'
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An Egyptian court jails an internet blogger for four years for insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir has lashed out in court at his accusers, saying the charges against him are a &quot;joke&quot; and &quot;laughable.
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Turkish author Ipek Calislar goes on trial accused of insulting Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Outspoken criticism of Muslim extremists and Egypt's president earns an Egyptian man a four-year prison sentence. By the Associated Press.
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The ringleader of a plot to behead a Muslim soldier in the British army "like a pig" and release a video of the murder to the media was jailed on Monday for at least 14 years.
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A Saudi court has sentenced a university professor to five years in prison for sowing dissent and inciting disobedience against the government.
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A Libyan man was jailed for four years by a British court Tuesday, after he admitted possessing documents describing how to make explosives and set up a terrorist cell, police said.
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The editor of Tempo magazine is jailed for libel, in a case which has raised fears about press freedom.
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A writer went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting the founder of modern Turkey in a biography about the revered late leader's wife, amid growing calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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InfoWorld - Saudi Arabian officials have reportedly detained a blogger whose writing has criticized religious extremism in the country, according to the two press freedom groups and a regional human-rights organization.
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The editor of leading Indonesian magazine Tempo was sentenced to a year&#39;s jail yesterday in a high-profile libel case that rights groups say represents a setback for press freedom and the country&#39;s emerging democracy.
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A court on Thursday sentenced Tempo magazine editor Bambang Harymurti to one year in prison for defamation and &quot;inciting unrest&quot; in a case watched by press freedom advocates here and abroad.
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Â· Best-selling novelist fears for safety over web jibesÂ· Libel case defendant accused of 'jew hating'
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An Islamist extremist who hatched a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier and then publish the footage on the Internet was jailed for life on Monday.
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An Afghan court sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad.
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A popular Myanmar blogger who belongs to Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party has been arrested in Yangon, apparently for violating the nation's tough Internet controls, a party spokesman said Wednesday.
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A court Tuesday sentenced a leader of an extremist group known as the Mad Crowd to 3 1/2 years in prison for hate crime attacks on foreigners, the judge said.