In an interview with Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Friday, 7 October, Tint Swe, Deputy Director General of Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD), stated: “Press censorship is non-existent in most other countries as well as among our neighbors and as it is not in harmony with democratic practices; press censorship should be abolished in the […]

Guyana’s president has delayed the start of a ban that would have prevented an opposition TV station from broadcasting in the run-up to general elections later this year. President Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday said that a four-month suspension on CNS TV6 would begin on 1 December, three days after scheduled elections, rather than on 3 […]

Pakistani journalist Faisal Qureshi, web editor of The London Post, a London-based news portal that covers Pakistan affairs, was found dead by his brother Zahid Qureshi and cousin Shahzad Qureshi at 2 am on 7 October. The body showed signs of torture and the journalist’s throat was slit. Zahid Qureshi said he called his brother […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), praises the prompt arrest of the police officer who allegedly attacked a professional female photographer covering an anti-austerity rally in Athens on 5 October 2011. Pictures appear to show the policeman hitting Tatiana Bolari, who works for the Athens […]