Increasingly, journalists are being harassed and threatened for attempting to shed light on dark places, but a more insidious tactic of intimidation is being used.

Staff of the BBC Persian service said that recently, several friends and relatives of employees living in Iran have been arrested, interrogated and detained in...

A year ago Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi torched himself out of economic despair. Little did he know that his act would spark the uprisings that tore through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011.

The revolutions represented many things to many people - although each country involved...

Journalists, in the UK at least, have been getting a bad press recently.

Because of the unfolding phone-hacking scandal, a large part of the British public seems to have decided that few, if any, journalists are trustworthy. Rogue reporters aside, it is important to remember the purpose of decent...

For Dr Amna Tillisi, the struggle in Libya isn't over yet.

Every night she sifts through the hundreds of boxes of medical supplies lining her garage in Essex, packing and labelling, and checking that their contents have not expired. She is helping ship them out to camps on the Libyan/Tunisian...