A Bahrain-based correspondent for Reuters was ordered to leave the country on Tuesday after officials complained about the news agency’s purportedly unbalanced coverage of recent unrest in the kingdom. Frederik Richter, who has been based in the capital Manama since 2008, was expelled at a time when reporters throughout the region face unprecedented harassment. “We […]

Ugandan authorities must investigate attacks, including by security forces, against journalists attempting to cover the “Walk to Work” demonstrations and the ensuing violence that erupted last month, the director of the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. According to reports from local media and the Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda), a Kampala-based free press […]

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 […]