Cuban journalist Victor Rolando Arroyo is in his second week of hunger strike as a protest to lack of medical attention, bad sanitary conditions in his cell, his cruel treatment, and the fact that he has not been allowed to practice religion. Arroyo was sentenced in April 2003 to 26 years in prison for acting “against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state”. Read more here
Iran’s judiciary spokesman has said that the eight-year jail term for Roxana Saberi may be reconsidered on appeal, an indication her sentence will be commuted. Read more here
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of spying for the US by a Tehran court.
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Jagjit Saikia, district correspondent for the newspaper Amar Asam, was killed by unknown assailants on 22 November in the town of Kokrajhar.
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