Somali radio journalist Ali Yusuf Adan was kidnapped on 21 February by Al Shabab militia soldiers after filing two reports on executions by the ultra-conservative militants. Ali Yusuf Adan, 47, who worked for the private broadcaster Radio Somaliweyn in the west of the country, was detained 100 km northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, and taken […]

Antonio Fontán Pérez, a staunch defender of the principles of free expression, who later became the first Spanish Senate President of the democracy he helped to restore, passed away on 14 January 2010, after a long illness. He was 86. Born in Sevilla in 1923, Fontán became an honorary life member of the International Press […]

Pa Kemo Jarju has worked at now-defunct newspaper The Independent, the Daily Observer, allgambian.net and other news outlets in The Gambia. As a result of his critical reporting, Jarju was forced to leave The Gambia and is now living in exile. The Gambia has one of the worst press freedom environments in Africa and journalists […]

A former editor of a Kurdish-language newspaper in Turkey is facing a 525-year sentence, less than two weeks after his successor was also imprisoned. Vedat Kurşun, former editor of Kurdish daily, Azadiya Welat, has been charged with 105 counts of “helping and abetting the PKK organization by spreading propaganda” and “glorifying crimes and criminals” in articles […]