An Istanbul criminal court has again ordered the temporary closure of a Turkish newspaper, after accusing it of publishing propaganda for a terrorist organisation, IPI Turkey reported. The 9 December decision to prohibit publication of the weekly Aydınlık for one month constitutes at least the third newspaper ban this year in Turkey. In June, and […]

Fred M’membe, editor-in-chief and owner of the Zambian daily the Post, appeared again in court on contempt charges brought against him and his newspaper in connection with an op-ed published in August this year that criticized the then-ongoing “obscenity” case against the Post editor Chansa Kabwela. In a decision hailed by IPI as a press […]

Nepalese Journalist Tika Bista was on Wednesday airlifted to Kathmandu Model Hospital for treatment a day after being assaulted by unidentified persons near her home in Garayala VDC, Rukum District, in Western Nepal. Doctors treating her said she was attacked with domestic weapons and suffered deep wounds. Her condition is now stable. Bista, who writes […]

Brankica Stankovic and her team of investigative reporters, who work for the B92 TV programme, “Insajder” (“Insider”), have received several death threats after the latest edition of the programme was broadcast on 3 December 2009. The threats came just after SEEMO concluded a three-day Press Freedom Mission to Serbia from 1-3 December 2009, during which […]