Nadeem Ghori, chief editor of independent weekly Saam (Champion) was arrested by Afghan security forces on 13 April. Noor Ahmad, deputy editor of Saam, said the local government in Ghor Province has not released any details still about the arrest....
London local paper the Hackney Gazette has decided not to allow the British National Party to advertise in its pages. The paper was the focus of much scrutiny after the Hampstead and Highgate Express, which is owned by the same group, Archant, had...
Would an Olympic boycott really inspire China to improve its human rights record and its dealings with Tibet? Or would it make things worse, asks Nick Young Tibet’s Himalayan neighbours in Bhutan and Nepal are beginning to build political...
Three journalists were injured in Karachi, Pakistan on 9 April while covering clashes between two groups of lawyers. One of the injured was a camera woman from GEO television, who broke her arm. Two media vehicles were torched and four cameras were...
The open call for artists & filmmakers closed on 1 July 2008. We received applications from artists & filmmakers from 30 countries, and we thank all organisations and persons who have assisted us in distributing our open call around the world. We...
Richard Butler, a British journalist working with American network CBS, has been freed after being held hostage for two months. Read more here
On 11 April, seven leading Slovakian dailies - SME, Pravda, Hospodarske, Noviny, Novy Cas, Plus 1 Den and Uj Szo published issues with nothing on the front page apart from a black-bordered editorial criticising the country’s new media law. A...
Should publications only run ads that match their principles, asks Peter Wilby Many readers and some journalists believe editors should apply the same principles to advertising as they do to editorial copy. If an ad is violently at variance with...
A High Court judge today rejected an attempt by the UK Defence Secretary to ‘gag’ coroners. Lawyers for Des Browne had challenged critical comments made by Andrew Walker, an Oxfordshire coroner, at the inquest of Private Jason Smith in November...
Two community radio presenters and indigenous activists were shot and killed in southern Oaxaca on Monday. Felicitas Martínez Sánchez and Teresa Bautista Merino were returning from publicising their radio station, La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The...
A vocal critic of a constitutional reform that will allow President Paul Biya to stand for another term in 2011 was arrested on Wednesday. According to his wife, the singer Lapiro de Mbanga has been accused of instigating riots in Mbanga in...
An amnesty panel in Baghdad has cleared AP photographer Bilal Hussein of charges of conspiring with Iraqi insurgents. Hussein has been held by US forces since April 2006. AP chief Tom Curley welcomed the decision, and called on the US to release...