Shahab Al-Tamimi, president of the Iraqi Union of Journalists, has died after being shot last Saturday. Mr Al-Tamimi’s car was attacked by gunmen last Saturday as he left a meeting in Baghdad. His son Rabi was also injured in the attack. Read more...
The makers of Channel 4 documentary Undercover Mosque are to sue West Midlands Police, after the police force claimed the programme makers had edited the film misleadingly. Broadcast regulators OFCOM cleared the documentary of any wrongdoing in...
The imprisonment of journalist Bersihar Lubis shows how colonial-era laws are being used to stifle historical debate in Indonesia, writes David Jardine Alarm bells have been ringing among Indonesian media after a late February verdict against...
Hassan Nobakhtian, the editor of conservative website Nosaki, was arrested on 25 February, despite having had no complaints brought against him. The arrest took place 11 days after Nosaki was banned by Tehran prosecutor-general Said Mortazavi....
The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has ruled that minutes of cabinet meetings in the days leading up to the Iraq war should be released. Explaining the proposed break in protocol, where cabinet minutes are kept secret, Thomas said the...
Agil Khalilov, a reporter for the Azerbaijani daily paper Azadlig, was beaten whilst filming an illegal land sale. The perpetrators of the attack --- allegedly including a local government representative and ministry official --- beat Khalilov...
Journalists at Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) have been warned by management not to cover criticism of constitutional change. A CRTV radio presenter was suspended and banned from going on air after he aired a song critical of African leaders...
The alleged killers of journalist Hrant Dink return to court today, with many groups expressing misgivings about the conduct of their trial, writes Charlotte Alfred The fourth hearing in the trial of suspects accused of killing Hrant Dink, the...
Despite the government’s best efforts, television and electronic media had a profound effect on how Pakistanis voted in this week’s election, says Zubeida Mustafa Two days before the elections in Pakistan on 18 February, the New York-based Human...
Turkmenistan President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov fired 30 employees of the main state television channel after a cockroach crawled across the studio desk during the 9pm news programme, Vatan, the news website Kronika Turkmenistan reported on 21...