Al Jazeera reporter Dorothy Parvaz, who, according to Syrian officials quoted by the network was detained after landing in Damascus on 29 April, has been deported to Iran, the news network reported today, again quoting Syrian officials. The network released a statement saying it had received information that she had been moved to Tehran. Syrian officials […]

A journalist was killed on Tuesday night in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, after an explosive device detonated when the journalist entered his vehicle. Nasrullah Afridi, a correspondent for Pakistan television and the leading Urdu newspaper, Daily Mashriq, also served as president of the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ), the Khyber Agency Unit, according to local […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today named Turkish journalist Zeynep Oral the first recipient of its “IPI Press Freedom Dialogue Award”. The award will be handed over at the “Dialogue For Press Freedom” Dinner & Award Presentation, to be held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on 14 June 2011, on the occasion of […]

Press freedom in Russia received a major boost after a Moscow court sentenced an extreme nationalist to life in prison for killing a trainee journalist and a well-known lawyer, news reports said. According to The Guardian, Russian neo-Nazi Nikita Tikhonov was sentenced for shooting Anastasiya Baburova, 25, a trainee journalist at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper […]