The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticized Turkish prosecutors’ attempt to force media organizations to hand over footage and photographs of an anti-government demonstration in May and the subsequent funeral of a man who died in the protest. Prosecutors in Hopa, on Turkey’s eastern Black Sea coast, threatened media organizations with legal action if they […]

Two journalists working for The Sunday Standard weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe were arrested yesterday for allegedly “publishing false statements prejudicial to the state and undermining public confidence in the law enforcement agents,” after they reported on the arrest of an aide to PM Morgan Tsvangirai last week, local and international reports said. Tsvangirai aide Jameson […]

Iranian sports reporter and photographer Maryam Majd has been arrested and jailed in Tehran’s Evin prison, according to the Los Angeles Times. The reason for her arrest is still unknown, but International Campaign for Human Rights reports that Majd phoned her family on 21 June, five days after she was taken from her home by […]

Television and radio stations are broadcasting live from the trial of alleged perpetrators of the Maguindanao Massacre, the infamous 2009 mass murder of 57 people, including 34 journalists, in Maguindanao, Philippines. For the first time ever, the Philippines Supreme Court granted a petition by media groups to live-broadcast the court proceedings in Manila where former […]