[Editor’s Note: This article was released on 25 March 2009 and maybe found on this URL: http://www.hrw.org]

Malaysia’s Home Ministry should immediately rescind its order suspending the publication of two opposition party newspapers, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also called for repeal of the 1984 Printing Presses and Publications Act.

Amidst growing level of attacks against free media and freedom of expression in Nepal and just within days of attack on community radio Mahakali, yet another community radio station, Radio Mukti, run by a women’s group and located in the central region town of Butwal has been vandalised by a group of students from the Butwal Multiple Campus on the night of 21 March 2009.

Thailand’s police has once more hogged the headlines with the arrest of Pratchatai webmaster Chiranuch Pemchaiporn on 6 March 2009 on the basis of the Computer-related Crime Act of 2007. However when the police came to the office in two vans and seized the computer and other electronic devices, they could not identify which posts violated the law.

Peshawar, Pakistan - Kishwar yanks at her veil, caught in the sound equipment of a cramped radio production studio, and pins it back. "It's hard to be the voice of anything with all this cloth on my face," she jokes, alluding to her station's tag line, "The Voice of Khyber."