Munir Al Mawari was sentenced on 31 October to two years in prison and given a lifelong ban on practising journalism for libelling President Ali Abdallah Saleh. In the same case, editor Samir Jubran received a suspended one-year prison sentence and...
Zimbabwe's ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has ordered the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and public newspapers to stop reporting on ministers from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), until Morgan...
Grenadian high court Judge Claire Henry ordered the liquidation, on 22 October, of the "Grenada Today" newspaper after the owners failed to reach an agreement with former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell over the settlement of an EC$191,000...
It was reported on 30 October that up to 50 people including 10 journalists, political activists and students have been arrested in Rangoon. Although no official reason behind the arrests has been given it is thought they were part of an attempt to...
Investigations conducted in Croatia and Serbia have led to the indictment on 26 October of eight individuals accused of murdering Ivo Pukanić, the owner of political weekly Nacional. Sreten Jocić, a wealthy Serbian businessman indicted for two...
American journalist Courtney C Radsch was fired from her post at Al Arabiya news on 5 October for uncovering breaches of safety at Emirates Airlines. Radsch had written an article on pilot fatigue in the airline. Within 24 hours of the article’s...
Maria de los Ángeles González Hernández, columnist at the newspaper "El Político" has reportedly received a number of anonymous death threats by email, allegedly from local labour leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz, southern Mexico. On 22 October, the...
Jagdish Grewal, founder and editor and editor of Brampton (Canada)-based newspaper "Punjabi Post" was attacked by three masked men armed with a baton and a gun outside the newspaper's offices, on 23 October. Mr. Grewal, who also hosts a daily...
The pro-Kremlin youth organisation Nashi has launched a legal offensive against four European newspapers over allegations that its activists issued death threats against a journalist. Le Monde, Le Journal du Dimanche, The Independent and...
The judge of the Alto Amazonas First Mixed Tribunal has initiated criminal proceedings against Acate Geovanni, director of Radio Oriente and Channel 8 TV, alleging that his coverage of a protest by indigenous people in May incited his audience to...