Vladimir Gessen is the editor of Informe21.com and president of the digital media association Bloque de Prensa Digital. A version of this article in Spanish appeared on Informe21. It cannot be that the party of Abraham Lincoln, which always has defended freedom of expression as one of the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution, wants to […]

An Italian television station argued before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday that the Italian government should pay the station over two billion Euros for not allowing it to take to the airwaves for eleven years. Centro Europa 7 told judges at the Strasbourg court that the sanction was the only way to […]

William Tonet, editor of the independent Luanda paper Folha8, was convicted of libel on 10 October and ordered by a judge to pay 10 million kwanzas (approx. 77,000 EUR) after publishing an article critical of top military officials, according to multiple news reports.  The judge further stipulated that, should Mr. Tonet not pay the fine […]

In an exclusive interview with the Gambian newspaper Daily News on Monday, Justice Minister Edu Gomez said that Chief Ebrimah Manneh, a journalist who was arrested in 2006 and has been missing ever since, is alive and that he is not in government custody. However, he refused to clarify further, saying: “But let the right […]