This editorial was originally published on the front page of the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, on Dec. 21, 2010, and is reprinted with permission. Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. He is also a historian, essayist and political commentator. He was a leading organiser of democratic opposition in Communist Poland, and was imprisoned by the authorities for […]

Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, a celebrated Bangladeshi journalist, has made it to the jury panel that will pick the winner of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize from 2011 to 2013. In selecting Bulbul for the jury, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova mentioned Bulbul’s “profound attachment to the principle of press freedom and the considerable […]

About 20 local and foreign journalists were beaten and jailed in Minsk last week by Belarusian authorities after an opposition rally that followed the announcement of President Alexander Lukashenko’s reelection victory, according to estimates from the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ). Most of those arrested are to remain in custody between five and 15 days. […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South, East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about the physical assault on Lumturie Blakaj, journalist working for the daily newspaper Zeri, in Kosovo. According to Blakaj, she was attacked […]