Muhammad Ekramul Haque, editor and owner of Sheershanews.com and Sheersha Kagoj, was arrested on 31 July by Bangladeshi authorities on a charge of extortion. According to police reports, Haque allegedly threatened to negatively cover a travel...
In his most outspoken tweets since his release, and despite bail conditions placing him under tight restrictions for at least a year, Ai Weiwei today lashed out at the "torment" of friends entangled in his situation and pressed the cases of other...
The apartment of Ukrainian journalist Oleksiy Matsuka, who is editor-in-chief of the News of Donbass website and the head of a regional public organisation, the Donetsk Institute of Information, was set on fire on the afternoon of 31 July. Matsuka...
Rodrigo Rangel, a journalist with Brazilian magazine Veja, was assaulted by his interviewee on the afternoon of 4 August at a restaurant in Brasilia, according to newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Veja said Rangel went to speak with lobbyist Júlio Fróes...
Peruvian journalist César Gonzáles has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay damages for the crime of "general misrepresentation of the State". The case against Gonzáles, who directs and hosts a current affairs programme 60...
Journalist Gorka Ramos was among the four demonstrators arrested for public disorder last Friday when armed riot police clashed with anti-austerity demonstrators in Madrid. A video of Ramos, who works for Spanish news site La Información, shows him...
Adão Tiago, an Angolan radio journalist for Radio Ecclesia, has been arrested for reporting on an outbreak of mass fainting. The faintings, involving more than 500 school children since April, have been linked, in some report, to criminals...
Norawase Yospiyasathien, a university graduate and blogger, was detained on Friday while police investigate allegations of lese majeste --- offending the Thai monarchy. According to online newspaper Prachatai police are scrutinising his blog posts....
Ales Bialiatski, head of Viasna, Belarus's leading human rights group, has been arrested on suspicion of "concealment of income" and tax evasion. Tatsiana Reviaka, A member of Vesna, told Human Rights House Belarus that she believed "the reason...
The Ivorian government has suspended a newspaper for twelve days over an opinion piece that criticised a recent White House meeting with African leaders. The column in Les Temps newspaper --- which supported former president Laurent Gbagbo --- ...