India’s The Hindu newspaper reported that the International Press Institute(IPI) – India award for excellence in journalism, 2011, has been awarded jointly to Tehelka and The Week for their outstanding journalistic work in 2010. The IPI India chapter announced that Tehelka was selected for its expose of the “rent a riot” tactics of a political party in […]

Three Ethiopian journalists arrested this summer and charged with terrorism appeared before an Addis Ababa court last week. Their respective cases, along with that of two Swedish journalists detained in eastern Ethiopia in July, have deepened suspicions that the government is using a new, vaguely-worded national security law to stifle independent media in the country. […]

Three Ethiopian journalists arrested this summer and charged with terrorism appeared before an Addis Ababa court last week.  Their respective cases, along with that of two Swedish journalists detained in eastern Ethiopia in July, have deepened suspicions that the government is using a new, vaguely-worded national security law to stifle independent media in the country. […]

Unknown assailants armed with hand grenades bombed the Radio Galkayo station in Galkayo, Puntland on 18 October, the latest in a series of attacks on journalists in the self-governing region, which is officially a part of Somalia. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reports that the bomb was thrown from the back fence of […]