Court Defers Imprisonment for Journalist Covering Sinai

A military court convicted Ahmed Abu Deraa of entering a military zone without authorization, but postponed his sentence indefinitely, a mixed decision in a test of media freedom.

    



World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Chechen Man on Trial in Killing Of Journalist Is Shot on Moscow Street

A Chechen man on trial for the murder of the journalist and government critic Anna Politkovskaya was shot in the leg, his lawyer said on Friday, calling it an attempt to silence him.

    



Soldier’s Lawyers Rest Case With a Defense of WikiLeaks’ Journalistic Role

A Harvard law professor testified that WikiLeaks performed a legitimate journalistic function when Pfc. Bradley Manning gave it vast archives of secret government files.

    

Urban Dictionary Finds a Place in the Courtroom

Courts are looking to Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced Web site, as one way to define words on which a case may turn.

    

Hackers Reveal Witness Names in Hariri Murder Trial

Hackers plastered the names of the so-called secret witnesses in the murder trial in the death of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on a major Lebanese news Web site.