The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced on Wednesday that it has initiated a war crimes investigation into the murder of five journalists collectively known as the “Balibo Five,” in East Timor in 1975 – a notable development in a crime for which so far no one has been held responsible, or prosecuted. A Radio Australia […]

A Russian journalist charged with slander over his reporting on a deadly 17 August explosion at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant was beaten unconscious on Wednesday by two unidentified men in his south-Siberian hometown of Abakan, according to news reports. In reporting on the dam disaster, Mikhail Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the online journal Novy Fokus, published […]

On the 9th of September, 2009, the International Press Institute (IPI) believes it is only fitting to call attention to the nine unresolved cases in its Justice Denied campaign, which highlights the unlawful imprisonment of journalists around the world and the impunity from which the murderers of journalists all too often benefit. Journalists are routinely […]

A journalist for local Afghan newspaper Jahan-e Naw (New World) arrested in October 2007 in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, charged with blasphemy for downloading from the Internet an article critical of Islam’s position on women’s rights and distributing it to some of his fellow students, and sentenced to 20 years in prison – […]