After publishing an article on fuel quality and distribution in Kosovo, on March 28, 2012, several journalists from the Pristina-based daily Express started receiving threatening phone calls. One caller threatened to bomb the paper’s offices, according to Express Editor-in-Chief Leonard Kerquki. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press […]

Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega defended himself against charges of belonging to a terrorist organization in an Ethiopian court yesterday, according a report from Voice of America’s Peter Heinlein. Eskinder Nega faces charges of supporting Ginbot 7, an opposition party that was deemed a terrorist organisation by the Ethiopian authorities last year. The outspoken commentator has […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned a month-long ban on daily newspaper Özgür Gündem in Turkey as the country’s justice minister said a judicial reform package would abolish the law that led to the ban. Hürriyet Daily News reported that an Istanbul court ordered the suspension based on allegations that the daily – known […]

A Ugandan journalist who had reported on the alleged involvement of a local politician in the theft of donated solar panels has been charged under the country’s criminal-defamation laws, according to the Human Rights Network for Journalists – Uganda (HRNJ). The journalist, Ronald Ssembuusi of Uganda’s Central Broadcasting Service (CBS), had aired a story in […]