A Venezuelan columnist has been fined and imprisoned after writing an article accusing a local mayor of nepotism, following a court hearing on Friday, 11 June. Francisco “Pancho” Perez, a columnist with Venezuelan daily El Carabobeño, was fined the equivalent of 16,000 EUR, and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.  The court […]

Television reporter Luis Arturo Mondragon was shot dead on Monday as he left the studios of Canal 19, where he worked, in Santa Clara de Danli, a town outside Tegucigalpa in Honduras, according to news reports. He was killed by two gunmen, a Honduran Security Department spokesperson was quoted as saying. Family members suggested to […]

  The Tunisian Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed a new law under which press freedom activists and other human rights defenders could find themselves jailed for up to 12 years in times “of war” – and five in peace time-  if they lobby against Tunisia’s economic interests. The act amends Article 61 bis. of the […]

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed journalist Joselito Agustin, a reporter and anchorman for the Filipino radio station DZJC Aksyon Radyo, on his way home on Wednesday in Laoag city. Agustin’s killing is the second murder of a journalist in the Philippines within 24 hours. On Monday evening, Desidario Camangyan of Sunshine FM […]