The body of a Mexican journalist who disappeared Sunday from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found dead yesterday. Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a police beat reporter for daily newspaper Notiver, was found with her throat slit behind the headquarters of another newspaper, Imagen. According to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, […]

Dolgor Chuluunbaatar, the editor-in-chief of Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar Times who was imprisoned in March for the alleged illegal privatization of a newspaper, was released on bail today on the grounds of poor health according to human rights organization Globe International. “He’s at home right now at a hospital getting treatment for an eye condition,” Globe International […]

A Peruvian court has sentenced a former television news program host to two years in prison on criminal defamation charges related to claims made by a politician he interviewed. The court sentenced Hans Francisco Andrade Chávez, 38, the former host of a news program for a local channel of Peruvian América TV, on 6 July […]

Journalists were attacked by a mob of ZANU-PF supporters in Harare while covering a public debate on human rights legislation on Saturday, local news reports said. Levy Mukarati of the Financial Gazette, Tsvangirai Mukwazhi  of the Daily News, Nqaba Matshazi  of the Standard, Aaron Ufumeli of Newsday and John Cassim, a freelance photographer,  were allegedly […]