Guinea's state-controlled media regulatory agency this week imposed a "temporary" ban on media coverage of the 19 July attack on the private...
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Kyrgyzstan: government bans news websites ahead of election campaign
Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October...
Lebanon: singer detained for defamation
Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan was briefly held at the prison of the Palace of Justice in Beirut on Wednesday for defaming President Michel Suleiman,...
Brazil: controversial Serbian film banned from RioFan festival
The controversial 'A Serbian Film' has been banned from being screened at the RioFan film festival by the event's main sponsor, Brazilian national...
Mexico: missing crime reporter found dead
The decapitated body of Yolanda Ordaz, a reporter for regional paper Notiver, has been found in the Mexican city of Veracruz two days after she went...
Malawi: journalists beaten and detained to prevent them covering protests
Reporters Without Borders has revealed several journalists covering Malawi's recent protests have been beaten and detained, while the government has...