Fred M’membe, owner of Zambian newspaper The Post, and an IPI World Press Freedom Hero, was released from Lusaka Central Prison this afternoon on bail of 20 million Zambian Kwacha (approx. 3,220 Euros) and the guarantee of two sureties, The Post’s managing editor Amos Malupenga confirmed to IPI this afternoon. The Post’s lawyers have already […]

Fred M’membe, editor and owner of the independent Zambian newspaper The Post, was sentenced today to four months in prison with hard labour, after having been found guilty of contempt of court on Wednesday. The contempt citing was brought last year in connection with The Post’s publication of an article by Cornell University professor Muna […]

Israel on Wednesday deported hundreds of activists, and a number of foreign journalists, who had been detained after a Gaza-bound flotilla they were aboard was stormed on Tuesday in an operation that left nine people dead. However, several journalists remained in custody at 15:30 CET. Mustafa Baig, from Aaj TV’s editorial desk, told IPI that […]

The Dhaka office of Bangladesh’s Amar Desh newspaper was stormed by police on Wednesday, just hours after Dhaka’s deputy commissioner, Muhibul Haque, ordered its publishing license suspended. Police also arrested acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on fraud charges, according to local and international news reports. The move comes only a month after the Bangladeshi government banned […]