B.V. Seetaram, chairman and chief editor of Chitra Publications, has been arrested by police in the district of Udupi in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
FrontlineBlogger: "The Zimbabwe government has announced new restrictive measures for media workers working with foreign news organisations. It will cost up to US$4 000 to practice journalism in Zi...
CPJ reports that Hadil Emad, 25, an editor for Biladi TV, 'was critically wounded after leaving work near a checkpoint on al-Jadriyya Bridge in al-Karrada district of Baghdad, according to local an...
Colin Freeman and José Cendon have been freed after spending 40 days 'in a lawless wilderness of arid mountains and dusty caves, four hours' bumpy drive south-west of Somalia's port city of Boosaas...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in a statement that he had signed into law a controversial media bill imposing new restrictions on the press, reports AFP.
RSF has reiterated its call for the release of leading free speech activist Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), who has been held in a secret location since his arrest on 8 December. Liu was reportedly placed under ...
Radio Shabelle reporter Hassan Mayow Hassan was gunned down by a member of a pro-government militia in Afgooye, 30 km south of Mogadishu, RSF reports.
It has been officially confirmed that Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian blogger, has been detained in Tehran. Reporters Without Borders calls on the judicial authorities 'to clarify' he has b...
Kazakh authorities must launch a thorough investigation into the stabbing of Artyom Miusov, a reporter with the opposition weekly Taszhargan, the CPJ has said.
Three US mainstream broadcast networks, namely ABC, CBS and NBC, have stopped sending full time correspondents to Iraq. At the same time the channels are trying to bolster their numbers in Afghanis...
RSF condemns the Zimbabwean authorities 'kidnap' of journalist and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko in early December. RSF reports that she has been held incommunicado and that authorities are ...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) 'has condemned three months jail sentences handed down by a court in Algiers against two journalists in a defamation case warning that the judgemen...
"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the repeated attacks against offices and personnel of the Himalmedia group of publications, by individuals believed to be associ...
"Reporters Without Borders calls on the judicial authorities to overturn the jail terms that were passed on blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi (http://rooznegaar.blogfa.com) on 15 December, coinciding with...
RSF confirms that three bloggers have been arrested in the past seven weeks: Reda Abderrahman Ali (http://www.elaphblog.com/page.aspx?U=459&page=2), Mohammed Adel (http://43arb.info/meit) and Abdel...
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