Fred M’membe, editor and owner of the independent Zambian newspaper The Post, was sentenced today to four months in prison with hard labour, after having been found guilty of contempt of court on Wednesday. The contempt citing was brought last year in connection with The Post’s publication of an article by Cornell University professor Muna […]

Israel on Wednesday deported hundreds of activists, and a number of foreign journalists, who had been detained after a Gaza-bound flotilla they were aboard was stormed on Tuesday in an operation that left nine people dead. However, several journalists remained in custody at 15:30 CET. Mustafa Baig, from Aaj TV’s editorial desk, told IPI that […]

The Dhaka office of Bangladesh’s Amar Desh newspaper was stormed by police on Wednesday, just hours after Dhaka’s deputy commissioner, Muhibul Haque, ordered its publishing license suspended. Police also arrested acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on fraud charges, according to local and international news reports. The move comes only a month after the Bangladeshi government banned […]

The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that Spain’s sentencing of a Spanish editor over an article in his newspaper linking Morocco’s now-deceased King Hassan II to drug-dealers was a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention, which protects the rights of freedom of expression and of the press. The case dates […]