Armando José Chicoca, a freelance journalist, has been given a one year prison sentence and fined US $2,100 for reporting on sexual harassment...
Angola: Journalist given prison sentence in defamation case
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Belarus: British actors put on blacklist
Influential US and British actors and musicians including Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Kelvin Kline, the Pet Shop Boys, Jude Law, Sienna Miller,...
Ecuador: Journalist faces lawsuit over allegations of corruption
José Cadena, owner of the weekly "El Vocero" newspaper, based in northeastern Ecuador, faces a lawsuit for publishing allegations of bribery and...
Ivory Coast: Foreign radio stations go off air
BBC Radio and Radio France International (RFI) are now off air in Ivory Coast. The government of Laurent Gbagbo denies taking action against the...
Turkish police raid journalists’ homes
Turkish police have detained 10 people, many of them journalists, in the latest crackdown on an alleged secularist network, which is accused of...
Slovak politicians lose right of reply
The Slovak government has made alterations to a controversial media law which guaranteed politicians, readers and state institutions a right of...
Radio presenter suspended in Equatorial Guinea
Juan Pedro Mendene, a radio presenter for the Equatorial Guinean broadcaster RTVGE, has been suspended for mentioning the Libyan uprising on his...
Spanish journalists expelled from Panama
Panamanian authorities have expelled two Spanish journalists who reported on a demonstration against mining law reform. Francesco Gomez Nadal and...
Iran: Journalists in exile receive death threats
While a government crackdown on opposition leaders and activists inside Iran continues, those living in exile have not been spared either. Several...
Ivory Coast: Media threats from rival political camps
Nine independent and anti-government newspapers have suspended publication following harassment from President Laurent Gbagbo supporters. The...
Hungarian police shut down anti-government news portal
Budapest police have suspended the news portal hirhatter.com. It is edited by journalist Arpad Molnar F., whose stated aim is to "expose state...
Venezuelan journalist shot dead
Venezuelan journalist Clara Fernandez has been killed in a shooting in Valencia. She was allegedly caught in crossfire in a fight between two rival...
