Two unidentified men kidnapped television journalist Paola Mallea on Sunday, 29 November, and kept her locked in a room for over nine hours before leaving her on the outskirts of her home city of Santa Cruz, reports local media organisation the Asociación Nacional de Prensa (ANP). Mallea, a journalist at the Santa Cruz-based broadcaster PAT, […]

On Tuesday, a Tunisian court sentenced editor Zouhair Makhlouf to three months in prison for publishing a damaging interview without consent. He has also been ordered to pay 6,000 Tunisian dinar (about 3,100 Euro) in damages. His lawyers, who plan to appeal the decision, complained that the trial was unfair and that the judge interrupted […]

An IPI press freedom advocacy mission will visit Bangladesh from 2-6 December 2009, to meet with representatives from a broad range of media as well as top government officials and members of civil society. The mission will follow up on some of the issues discussed in the December 2008 IPI press freedom mission and assess […]

Kaliningrad-based broadcast journalist Olga Kotovskaya fell to her death from a fourteenth-floor window on 16 November, in what authorities quickly termed a “suicide”, according to local news reports. However, colleagues and others close to the journalist believe that Kotovskaya – who had recently won a key court battle linked to her broadcaster – was murdered […]