Michael Georgy, a Reuters correspondent, was expelled by the Libyan government from the country on Wednesday. The reporter was notified by...
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Ethiopian editor released
Dawit Kebede, editor in chief of the Ethiopian newspaper Arwamba Times, has been released after almost two years in prison. Kebede has decided to...
Burma: Censorship laws to be relaxed
The Burmese government’s censorship board director, Tint Swe, has announced that the country’s censorship policy will be relaxed in accordance with...
India: Controversial book on Gandhi banned
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India, a book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld, has been banned in the Indian...
Syria: Two Reuters reporters missing
Reuters has announced that two of their reporters are missing in Syria. Jordanian correspondent, Suleiman al Khalidi, was detainted by the Syrian...
Appeal against book confiscation order denied by Turkish court
A Turkish court has denied an appeal of a court order for the confiscation of the unpublished book “İmamın Ordusu” or The Imams Army, written by...
Polish journalist faces prosecution in Belarus
Belarusian authorities have filed charges against journalist Andrzej Poczobut. Poczobut works for the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. He is...
Mexico: Two journalists murdered
Two journalists, José Luis Cerda Meléndez and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, have been murdered in the northern state of Nuevo León. Cerda was a...
Czech Republic grants asylum to Belarusian opposition candidate
Belarusian politician Ales Mikhalevich has been granted political refugee status in the Czech Republic. He was imprisoned after running against...
Belarus: Journalists arrested
Reporters Aleksandr Lomashkin and Ales Asiptsu were arrested in separate incidents on Thursday, 24 March. Both were detained on the eve of "Freedom...
Azerbaijani reporter kidnapped and beaten
Eminent opposition journalist Seymur Haziyev was abducted and beaten on Saturday night (26 March). He was attacked by six masked men and tortured...
Mexican journalist reported missing
Reporter Noel Lopez Olguin has gone missing in Veracruz state. The Head of the Veracruz State Commission for the Defence of Journalists claims that...