Fidèle Gakire, publisher of bimonthly newspaper Ishema decided to suspend the publication for one month on 28 August because of serious threats...
Rwanda: Threats cause bimonthly to suspend publication
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Venezuela: Editor of censored magazine turns himself in
The editor of satirical Venezuelan weekly newspaper 6to Poder has turned himself in to police on Tuesday while under investigation over a front-page...
Belarus: President orders controlled internet access in educational institutions
Internet access in educational institutions must be under control, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko as he addressed educators on 29...
Brazil: Courts block bank accounts of Google Brazil for refusing to take down “offensive” blogs
Courts in the Brazilian state of Ceará have blocked access to 140,000 USD in the accounts of Google Brazil after the internet giant refused to take...
Colombia: Former president Uribe labels journalists “terrorism sympathisers”
Following the publication of stories in the Washington Post earlier this month that allege former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez may have...
Kazakhstan: Reporter, activist to be sued for libel
A rights activist and RFE/RL correspondent in Kazakhstan is being sued for libel after she alleged children at a special needs school were being...
Uzbekistan: Freelance journalist under investigation
Elena Bondar, an Uzbekistani freelance journalist who was briefly detained at Tashkent airport last week, has been notified that she is to be...
Venezuela: Censored magazine re-opens, executives still charged
A judge has this week lifted a week-old court ruling banning the distribution of a Venezuelan magazine after it published a satirical...
Nepal: Newspaper distributor attacked for cartoon
Khagendra Basnet, distributor of a local daily called Nigarani, was threatened on 22 August in eastern Nepal. According to reports, the individual...
Vietnam: Pro-democracy activists released
On 2 September, the Vietnamese government granted amnesty to 10,000 detainees, including blogger Nguyen Van Tinh and poet Tran Duch Thach, in...
Ecuador: Journalist sentenced to prison flees to Miami
After being sentenced to three years in prison for defamation, an Ecuadorian journalist has fled the country and sought refuge in Miami, according...
Fiji: Ministry of Information tightens censorship
Today, Fiji's Ministry of Information sent a mass e-mail asking media outlets and journalists to send all news headlines to censors half an hour...
