TURKEY:
- Access to YouTube website blocked three times in January over content
"disrespectful of Turkishness" (BIANET)
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90461/
- Antenna-TR says judges ignorant of Internet not competent to order
YouTube website blocked
http://www.antenna-tr.org/index.asp?lgg=en
TURKEY:
Retired general allegedly behind journalist Hrant Dink’s murder; general
and other ultranationalist arrested for other crimes (BIANET)
http://www.bianet.org/english/news

AZERBAIJAN:
CAPSULE REPORT: "Freedom of expression is in the worst state ever," says
IRFS
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90458/


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IRAN:
IFJ condemns closure of women’s magazine
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?index=5783&Language=EN
IRAN:
Italian journalists’ federation lobbying for release of Kurdish journalist
sentenced to death (IFJ)
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?index=5788&Language=EN
IRAQ:
Editor of weekly released on bail, trial postponed; five journalists
arrested, one beaten, another mistreated (RSF)
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90480/
PALESTINE:
Journalist Omar Al-Ghul freed after being held by Hamas for 49 days (RSF)
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90454/
SAUDI ARABIA:
News channel director fired after airing critical comments; Information
minister bans live programmes on state television (RSF)
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90445/
SYRIA:
Another detained in crackdown on democracy advocates; at least eight
allegedly beaten, forced to confess (Human Rights Watch)
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90487/
TUNISIA:
RSF asks Justice Ministry to improve prison conditions of dissident
journalist Slim Boukhdir
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/90450/