Early Saturday morning the Senate passed S.Con.Res. 50, which calls on "the United States to promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet today." The bill ...

Jordan's king has approved a controversial law that aims at monitoring media websites operated by Jordanians. The law requires electronic publications, defined as "an electronic site on the internet with a fixed address that offers publication services," to ...

Forty-four journalists went on trial this week in the largest trial ever involving the media in Turkish history. Accused of being members of the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK), which has been called the urban wing of the PKK by the ...

Egyptian TV presenter and network chief Tawfiq Okasha appeared in court in Cairo Saturday to faces charges of inciting violence against President Mohammed Morsi, where he denied allegations that he called for the leader's death. "I merely criticised President ...

Youth groups in Tunisia continue to organize protests aimed at criticizing government performance and a lack of adherence to principles of the revolution.  Sawty, a democracy promotion group, passed out blank pamphlets labeled "Tunisian constitution" on August 11 to call ...

Tunisia's interim President Moncef Marzouki took aim at the ruling Ennahda party in a speech given at the annual convention of his party, Congress for the Republic or CPR. The remarks, delivered by another party member but written by the ...

Moroccan riot police violently dispersed a demonstration by dozens of activists outside the parliament building in Rabat, injuring several. The protest, led by the Rabat branch of the February 20 movement, called for the abolishment of the annual royal allegiance ...

State-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper has announced that the paper will reduce the number of opinion pages from three to two, and will preference staff writers over independent contributors, in a move widely seen as an attempt to silence critics of the Muslim Brotherhood. ...

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in cities across Morocco to protest the rising cost of living, unemployment, and corruption. The protests mixed February 20 youth activists, trade unions, and human rights organizations in demonstrations of ...

Iran convened a "consultative meeting" of representatives from around 20 countries Thursday in Tehran to discuss the crisis in Syria. While the attendance list remains unknown, Russia confirmed that their ambassador would be present, and China, India, Algeria, ...

Tunisian activist and blogger Lina Ben Mhenni recounted on her blog her beating by police during a sit in in front of parliament on August 5th in what she described as a "scene...worthy of December 2010." Police

Reporters Without Borders expressed serious concern for the safety of Moroccan journalist Hamid Naïmi due to what the group alleges is "almost constant harassment and... death threats." Naïmi lives and reports in the Spanish enclave of Melilla where he participates in ...

In the most senior defection to date, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad al-Hijab, along with two as-yet unnamed ministers, fled to Jordan Monday to join "the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution," according to the prime minister's spokesman. Syrian state ...

Special peace envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League Kofi Annan has announced his resignation, reiterating that President Bashar al-Assad "must leave office." Annan said, “I accepted this task, which some called ‘Mission: Impossible,’ for I believed it was a sacred duty to do ...

For the first time in its history, the Istiqlal Party, Morocco's oldest and second largest party, failed  a faction of the party unhappy with the El Fassi family and the direction of the party. Without a unanimous candidate, the ...

The Libyan Ministry of the Interior announced Saturday a ban on all unlicensed protests, which some believe will include strikes as well. All future protests will require the permission of the Interior Ministry, and all unauthorized protesters will ...

Mohammed Sawan, leader of the political wing of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, told Reuters yesterday that Mahmoud Jibril, whose National Forces Alliance appears to have a lead in the first free election in decades, falsely represented himself as "having ...

In a report released by Human Rights Watch on Friday, former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, recently extradited back to Libya from Tunisia, claimed that he is being treated well in Libya, but that Tunisian authorities regularly tortured him prior ...

Tunisia's Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali will not face a no confidence vote, the National Constituent Assembly announced, due to a lack of signatures on the motion. The proposal submitted Wednesday fell short of the required support by one-third of ...

Police in Algeria thwarted  an independence day protest rally by arresting 50 would-be participants early Thursday morning. Most of those detained were unemployed activists, but some were also the wives of activists who have gone missing. The National ...