Ordinary Italians are marching against the prime minister’s stranglehold on their country’s media. Giulio D’Eramo reports
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Uganda: Television boss fired for reporting on police violence
Mark Walungama, a manager in the Ugandan Broadcasting Corporation has been dismissed for allowing "disturbing pictures’"of police beating protestors in the recent city riots. Walungama was informed by top officials to cease reporting for work until...
Morocco: crackdown on royal cartoon
The Moroccan government is suing daily newspaper Akhbar Al Youm after it published a cartoon of Prince Moulay Ismail. The government said the cartoon showed "blatant disrespect" to the royal family. Read more here
Turkey: Staging of part-Kurdish play a half-step forward
Kerim Yildiz discusses how Turkey’s easing of restrictions on the use of Kurdish remains far from complete
Guinea: BBC and AFP reporters go into hiding
Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo, BBC correspondent, are reported to have gone into hiding in Guinea. The two had been threatened after reporting on the government...
Russian journalist fears high-level death threat
Alexander Podrabinek has been driven into hiding after he wrote an article critical of defenders of the Soviet legacy.
Maria Eismont reports
Guinea: protesters killed
Dozens of protesters were shot dead in a crowded football stadium by Guinean security forces at a demonstration against the country’s military leader Captain Moussa "Dadis" Camara on 28 September. As many as 58 people had been brought in to the...
Berlusconi: new attack on media
Newspapers linked to Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi have launched an attack on state broadcaster RAI, telling readers not to pay their television licence fee. The call is part of a long-running assault on media critical of the governing party and Berlusconi’s business empire.
Download Index on Censorship’s report on political interference in Italian media here
Civil liberties suspended in Honduras
Interim leaders in Honduras suspended civil liberties on 27 September. Measures can now be taken to break up "unauthorised" public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media. Media outlets which "attack peace and public...
Russian reporter goes into hiding
Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article about the government’s defence of the Soviet Union. Podrabinek wrote his controversial article for...