A former officer of the Russian Navy, Grigory Pasko is the founding editor of Ecology and Law, a quarterly magazine on environmental and citizens’ rights, and currently the director of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism – Foundation 19/29 (Russia). Pasko, who worked as an investigative journalist for the Russian Pacific Fleet’s newspaper, was arrested in […]

As Enrique Peña Nieto prepares to assume the Mexican presidency, his public focus has been on scaling back the drug cartel-related violence in the country. Meanwhile, at least four incidents involving journalists being assaulted, abducted, threatened, or arrested have occurred since Mexico’s July 1 election, continuing the nation’s abysmal record of protecting its journalists and […]

An Al Jazeera correspondent has reportedly been wounded in Syria and transferred to Turkey for medical treatment, while a Turkish photojournalist was reportedly shot in the foot. Both journalists were injured while covering clashes in Aleppo, the commercial capital of Syria, which has witnessed brutal fighting in recent days. Al Jazeera cameraman Hakan Bayginer told […]

For the second week in a row, the opposition newspaper Feteh was prevented from being printed and distributed, according to a local news report. Temesgen Desalegn, chief editor of Feteh newspaper, was quoted by The Reporter as saying: “It is nothing but an intention to kick us out of the publication business.” The state-owned printing […]