Journalists in Zimbabwe win government court case
Four Harare based journalists on Friday won an historic court case against the government after they challenged the legal status of the Media and Information Commission. Read more here
Journalist murdered in Somalia
Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, director of Radio Shabelle was shot in the head four times by three armed men on his way to work in the capital Mogadishu. This is the third fatal attack on the radio station staff in 2009. Read more here
“RapePlay” game banned in Japan
One of Japan’s software rating organisations will no longer support the sale of simulated rape games such as “RapePlay” in the country, following protests from civil rights campaigners in the US. Read more here
The Sunday Times on libel tourism
Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried a good piece on US legislators’ attempts to bring in laws to counteract English libel laws. Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville contributed this:
“The reports NGOs (write) take many months, even years, to put together and rely on anonymous sources who fear for their lives.”
“By contrast, many of these libel tourism claims are not about disputing factual errors, they are really about shutting up critics who have exposed serious abuses.”