Newspaper editor Ayyub Karimov has been given a 18-month suspended sentence after being convicted of libelling the interior minister Ramil Usubov. Ububov claimed articles printed in the Azadlyg and Femida 007 newspapers were inaccurate and damaged...
Lawsuits were launched against four leading newspapers following a Dushanbe court's decision to uphold a damages award against independent news weekly Paykon. The damages award of 300,000 somoni (€49,000) was confirmed on 26 January. Paykon...
China has warned the Swiss government that its decision to grant asylum to two Chinese Uighurs currently detained in Guantanamo Bay will harm relations. Switzerland's justice minister said the decision to take the brothers was guided by...
Peter Sawali was arrested in Blantyre on 3 February for putting up posters saying 'Gay rights are human rights'. He was charged with 'conduct likely to cause a breach of peace' and could face up to three months in prison. A police spokesman Dave...
Henry Ochieng, editor of the Daily Monitor news magazine and Angelo Izama, a senior reporter were charged with criminal libel yesterday after a complaint from President Yoweri Museveni about an article that compared him to Ferdinand Marcos, former...
Five people were arrested on 3 February after a group of men assaulted Victoire Ingabire; her assistant Joseph Ntawangundi was badly beaten in the attack in the capital, Kigali. Ingabire who intends to run for president returned to Rwanda in...
The editor of Taqadoumy website Hanevy Ould Dehah remains in detention after a Supreme Court decision to retry him on a charge of 'offending public decency', a crime for which he has already served a six-month sentence. Commenting on his...
Controversial Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders will face trial in the Netherlands on hate speech. Wilders's lawyers had attempted to block the trial, claiming that as a politician he should have protected speech. Wilders has gained notoriety for...
Veteran Ethiopian journalist Ezedin Mohamed, editor of Islamic paper Al Quds, was sentenced to one year in jail on the 30 January. According to CPJ, the sentence relates to Mohamed's response to a 2008 Guardian interview with Meles Zenawi; Mohamad...
A Tunisian appeals court on Saturday upheld a six-month prison sentence against journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, one of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali’s toughest critics. The Committee to Protect Journalists denounced the decision as part of a...