Approximately three weeks after Vietnamese investigative journalist, Le Hoang Hung, died following an arson attack, the journalist’s wife, Tran Thi Thuy Lieu, confessed to the murder, according to local news reports in Vietnam. Vietnamese police reportedly said yesterday that Lieu confessed that she poured petrol on her husband while he was sleeping and set him […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it is encouraged by Slovak authorities’ progress in honouring their commitment to revise the country’s controversial 2008 press law. An IPI delegation met Friday in Bratislava with Slovak Minister of Culture Daniel Krajcer, who said his government was proposing legislation that would change the “right to reply” […]

Abdost Rind, 27, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen while returning home from work in Turbat, Balochistan province, on 18 February. Rind, a reporter with the Daily Eagle, an Urdu-language newspaper, was shot four times before the assailants escaped on a motorcycle. He died immediately. He is the second journalist to be murdered in […]

The successful overthrow of long-time autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia has prompted demonstrations across the region – and corresponding attempts by the authorities and pro-regime supporters in Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and Libya to clamp down on the free flow of news. Although the violence in Bahrain and Yemen has reportedly decreased since Saturday, journalists still […]