A journalist was knocked unconscious during an attack by police officers and security guards. Orlando Rucana Cuba, editor of La Revista newspaper and director of the news program Canal 27's ITN programme, was beaten while filming a group of...
On 7 April, Enrique Lazo Flores, editor of the newspaper La Región, in the southern city of Ilo, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of attacking the honor of Renato Ascuña Chavera, a regional politician. The jail sentence...
Human Rights Watch called on the Iraqi government to suspend its media regulations. The regulations, which impose tight restrictions on the country's broadcast media, have been enforced by the Communication and Media Commission (CMC) in order to...
Two Tibetan students studying at the Northwest National Minorities’ University in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, were arrested by Chinese authorities last week. Police raided the rooms of Tashi Rabten (pen name Te’urang) and Druklo (pen name Shokjang),...
On 7 April, Edgar Astudillo Vásquez, radio producer of a news program on Radio Panzenú, received a a pamphlet that said he would be killed before April 20 in any street in his home city of Montería in the Córdoba region. The death threats came the...
A Japanese cameraman for Reuters, Hiro Muramoto, was fatally shot in the chest whilst covering protests in Bangkok on 10 April. It is not apparent which side was responsible for the shooting, as Thai police used rubber bullets, tear gas and fired...
The Spanish National Court has acquitted five executives of a now-defunct Basque-language newspaper, including its former editor-in-chief Martxelo Otamendi, of belonging to the separatist group ETA. The court said the prosecution had not provided...
The mayor of Murmansk a city in north-west Russia, has been accused of censorship by the editor of Vecherni Murmansk newspaper. Nataliya Chervyakova's claims relate to an article that accused local officials of failing to re-calculate citizens’...
Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, has been denied medical parole by Chinese officials. His wife, Zeng Jinyan appealed for his release to Beijing authorities last week citing concerns for his husband’s health, he may have liver cancer. According...
Enrique Villicana Palomares, a teacher and a columnist for the daily newspaper "La Voz de Michoacán", was found dead on 10 April in Morelia, in the southern state of Michoacán, five days after he was kidnapped. The Michoacán state justice...