A U.S. federal appeals court’s ruling last Friday that no privilege prevents a reporter from being forced to disclose the source of leaked classified information underscores the urgent need for Congress to adopt a shield law, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Reversing a lower court’s decision, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth […]

Authorities in Zambia last week arrested two journalists with alleged ties to a controversial government watchdog website and charged them with sedition, local media reported. Thomas Zyambo, a journalist who was allegedly working for the online news source, the Zambian Watchdog, was arrested on July 9 along with another journalist and academic, Clayson Hamasaka, in […]

Nearly two years after being sentenced to prison for insulting a local politician in a newspaper column, Colombian journalist Luis Agustín González was acquitted last week of all charges by the country’s Supreme Court. In its ruling, dated July 10, the Court stated that “in terms of freedom of expression, freedom of political opinion enjoys […]

According to a press release issued by the Afghanistan Journalist Centre, Kabul police released Mandegar newspaper reporter Azizu Rhaman Sakhizadeh from detention today. Sakhizadeh had reportedly been under police custody for more than 11 days and was subject to several hours of police interrogation Wednesday prior to his release on bail. Mandegar Editor-in-Chief Nazari Paryani told […]