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...
The increasingly farcical Olympic torch relay made its way to California yesterday. Lucie Morilllon of Reporters Without Borders was there After the London and Paris demonstrations that disrupted the Olympics torch relay and angered Chinese...
Arms trade campaigners are celebrating today, after a London judge decided that the director of the Serious Fraud Office should not have dropped an investigation into a multi-billion dollar arms deal. Padraig Reidy reports A court ruled today that...
Motor racing supremo Max Mosley has failed in his attempt to stop the News of the World from publishing an extract from a video of him with several prostitutes on its website. The newspaper claims that Mosley, son of British fascist leader Oswald,...
Controversial short film Fitna has been removed from video-hosting site LiveLeak after threats were made against staff. Meanwhile, the Iranian government has summoned the Dutch ambassador in order to register protest against the film. Dutch Foreign...
Is Chechnya’s President Kadyrov welcome in the country’s journalists’ union or not, asks Anna Sevortian On the 5 March Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, was inducted into the Union of Journalists of Chechnya, which is part of the Russian...
Dutch MP Geert Wilders has posted his controversial film Fitna on the Internet. The film, a polemic against the 'Islamicisation' of Europe made up of clips of bombings and speeches from imams and politicians, has been the subject of huge...
As President Nicolas Sarkozy visits Britain, Natasha Lehrer looks at the changing relationship between France’s political elite and the media In a radical break with French tradition, the amorous antics of the country’s President have lately become...