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An Egyptian blogger says he was sentenced to three months in prison for "insulting the police" and "misusing the internet," over a YouTube video.
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A leading secular activist, Alaa Abdel Fatah, was arrested on Thursday, his wife said, after having been accused of inciting protests in violation of a controversial new law.
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has amassed a following of over seven million on microblogging site Twitter.
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A Saudi blogger jailed in 2012 for publishing an imaginary conversation with Islam`s Prophet Mohammad on Twitter walked free early on Tuesday, his friend and a lawyer said, though there was no comment from the government.
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The Chinese police have reportedly arrested a blogger in its widening crackdown on internet rumour spreaders.
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China has arrested Chinese-American billionaire blogger Charles Xue, who has attracted 12 million followers with his reform-minded comments, for suspected involvement in prostitution.
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A well-known Vietnamese blogger, jailed for 12 years for anti-state propaganda, is "very weak" after a month-long hunger strike protesting at his treatment in prison, his family said Sunday.
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Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting "erroneous and slanderous" information about the communist government, the third blogger to be locked in the past month in an intensifying crackdown against dissent.
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A young Moroccan blogger has been arrested in northern Italy after being accused of plotting terrorist attacks and waging Jihad via the internet.
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Lindsay Lohan snorted cocaine off her wrist in a bathroom during a paid appearance at a nightclub in Miami on New Year`s Eve 2009, according to a new tell-all memoir by controversial gossip blogger Nik Richie.
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An "atheist" blogger was arrested on Wednesday in Bangladesh on charges of defaming Islam, the fourth such detention in two days as part of a crackdown to prevent exploitation of religion on the Internet.
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A prominent Egyptian blogger has handed himself in to authorities, a day after the country`s prosecutor general ordered his arrest over his alleged role in instigating violence during clashes between supporters and opponents.
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