Court upholds prison for Egypt blogger
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An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who criticized conservative Muslims and was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president, court officials said.
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A Chinese court on Friday rejected the  appeal of a Chinese researcher for the New York Times and  upheld a three-year prison sentence handed down for fraud, his  lawyer said.
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An iconoclastic law student is sentenced to prison and shudders go through the Middle East blogosphere
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A Cairo court rejected on Tuesday an attempt by Egyptian Christians to ban a film they say damages the reputation of the country's Christian minority.
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A US judge upholds the new anti-terror law, agreeing that Guantanamo inmates cannot challenge their imprisonment.
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A three-judge panel of the Santiago Court of Appeals today voted unanimously to uphold the indictment and house arrest of former dictator Gen.
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A court Wednesday rejected an appeal by the founder of Ansar al-Islam, a suspected Islamic terror group in Iraq, and upheld a government order to expel him from Norway as a threat to national security.
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A judge dismissed charges against a New Brunswick blogger after he was arrested while reporting at a protest.
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A Hong Kong court has rejected an appeal by a man who had been jailed in what was the world's first prison sentence for distributing movie files over the popular online BitTorrent Internet network.
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A Cairo appeals court on Monday acquitted an Al-Jazeera journalist sentenced to six months over a film that highlighted torture in Egyptian police stations but it still upheld a fine against her.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling against two reporters who could go to jail for refusing to divulge their sources to investigators probing the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name to the media.
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Saudi authorities have detained a popular blogger for violating the kingdom's laws, a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. It was the first known arrest of a Saudi online critic.
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A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted a writer of insulting the country's founder amid calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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A blogger whose writing has criticized religious extremism in Saudi Arabia has been arrested in that nation and held without charges since Dec. 10, according to two press freedom groups and a regional human rights organization.
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A Chinese court on Friday rejected the appeal of a Chinese researcher for the New York Times and upheld a three-year prison sentence handed down for fraud, his lawyer said.
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a two-year prison term for one of Algeria's best known journalists in a case seen by many as a pretext to crush press freedom in this North African country.
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A Danish court upholds a supermarket's decision to dismiss a Muslim woman for wearing her headscarf to work.