Court acquits Bahraini activist of Twitter insult
 Saudi Gazette - AP - MANAMA - A Bahrain judge on Thursday overturned a conviction against a prominent human rights campaigner for posting alleged anti-government comments on social media, but the activist remained jailed while appealing another prison sentence.
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Press warned over pictures of naked Prince
 The Independent - Adam Sherwin - St James’s Palace today asked British media organisations not to publish pictures of a naked Prince Harry partying in Las Vegas, despite the images being easily available online.
Royal aides confirmed the authenticity of the photographs, which depict the third in line to the throne standing in front of a topless woman, cupping his genitals with his hands. Another picture shows the Prince "bear-hugging" a naked woman from behind.
Julian Assange taunts British Government from embassy balcony
 By Andrew Hough - The Telegraph - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange taunted the British Government yesterday when he appeared on the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy and accused ministers of ignoring international law.
The 41-year-old, who has been holed up in the embassy in Knightsbridge for two months fighting extradition to Sweden, told his supporters it was only because the “eyes of the world” were on him that Britain had not “thrown away the Vienna Convention”.
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Dead Tweets: Citizen Journalists Pay the Price
Mideastposts - Added by Mich Cafe - With traditional media officially locked out of Syria since the start of the revolution there in March 2011, citizen journalism has taken over the mantle, at a great cost.
It is through citizen journalism that news, photographs and videos of what is happening in Syria are now relayed to the outside world, at the heavy cost of detention, torture and death.
Egypt’s Islamist Leaders Accused of Stifling Media
 The New York Times - By KAREEM FAHIM and MAYY EL SHEIKH - CAIRO - Several recent moves by government authorities against Egyptian journalists have drawn sharp criticism from the news media and led to accusations that the country’s new Islamist president is willing to tolerate — if not employ — the same heavy-handed tactics used by former President Hosni Mubarak to stifle dissent.
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