The Cote d’Ivoire government suspended transmission of the broadcaster France 24 last week citing the agency’s biased reporting of political unrest in the West African country. The National Council for Audiovisual Communication scrambled the French...
Vedat Kursun, former editor of Azadiya Welat, has been charged with 105 counts of "helping and abetting [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party] by spreading propaganda" and "glorifying crimes and criminals". His newspaper published numerous...
Paul Martin, the British freelance journalist who was arrested on 14 February whilst attending the trial of Hamas activist Mohammed Abu Muaileq, has had his detention extended by a Hamas military court. Martin, who is accused of helping the former...
The editor of the Mauritanian website Taqadoumy has been freed from a two-year jail sentence for violating public decency, inciting revolt and "criminal publication". Hanevy Ould Dehah was pardoned by the Islamic Republic of Mauritania’s president...
The Liberian government has been accused of resorting to intimidation to censor the nation's media. The Center for Media Studies & Peace Building (CEMESP) has published its 2009 review of threats to freedom of expression, which urges the...
A factory worker has been executed by firing squad in North Korea for divulging information to a friend in South Korea. The man, who has only been identified by his surname Chong, was accused of sharing the price of rice and other information on an...
Ahmed Mostafa, an engineering student at the University of Kafr el-Sheikh, faced a military court on 27 February, accused of "publishing false information about a military institution". Mostafa, 20, was arrested on orders from the military...
Three Rwandan journalists have been found guilty of defaming two government ministers, in a move that has described by the Committee to Protect Journalists as an effort to silence critical journalism in the country. Former editor Charles Kabonero,...
The Media Institute of Southern Africa and the Africa Freedom of Information Centre have urged the Zambian president to include access to information in the country's first ever constitution. The not-for-profit groups made the plea to Rupiah Banda...
The independent newspaper Heritage has accused the Liberian government of carrying out political censorship after it was unable to publish its February edition because of state interference. The publication's management revealed that the commercial...