The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) wants the Indonesian Police Headquarters not to file criminal charges against Tempo magazine.

The entire board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) was charged with lese majeste on 30 June 2009, media reports said.

The editor-in-chief of the "The Khmer Machas Srok" newspaper, who had been fined and sentenced to a year's imprisonment in absentia on 26 June, was arrested on the same day by the police and sent to the Prey Sar prison, near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, media reports said.

The Special Weekly, a chinese language news magazine is under investigation for criminal defamation and section 8(A) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) for "false news", since a police report was lodged against it by the Minister of Transport and President of the MCA, a component party in the ruling coalition BN, Ong [...]

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva turned down on March 5 an international call for the reform of lese majeste law but hinted some amendment to the enforcement of the law could be considered to allow for expression of academic opinions.

A Filipino broadcaster was released on 23 December 2008 after spending almost two years in prison in Davao del Norte for libel. Davao del Norte is a province approximately 946 km south of Manila. Libel is a criminal offense in the Philippines.

The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), the National Human Rights Society (HAKAM), and Writers Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI) are gravely concerned at the continued invoking of laws aimed at criminalizing expression such as those creating the offences of sedition and criminal defamation as illustrated by the arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin for these [...]

On September 22, Koh Kong police officer Chen Sovann filed a criminal defamation suit against local paper Cambodia Today, demanding 10 million riel (US$2,500), two days after the paper published an article by journalist Eng Meng Leng alleging that Sovann helped a suspected human trafficker flee the country.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has filed criminal and civil lawsuits against media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul and demanded 500 million baht (over US$12 million) in damages for slander in Sondhi's banned political talk show.

SEAPA has denounced a government decision to pursue criminal libel lawsuits against Thailand's leading English-language newspaper, the "Bangkok Post", despite the paper's having earlier recanted a news article that was the basis for the government's complaint.