Tunisian journalist Zouhair Makhlouf was released from prison on 12 February, after serving three months and three weeks of a four-month sentence handed down to him for “insulting” the dignity of a man he had interviewed. Makhlouf was arrested on 21 October 2009, a few days before the presidential elections, and was sentenced to four […]

A foreign journalist was arrested in Zimbabwe by state security agents on Friday.  The Mexican journalist was attempting to film tourist attractions in the town of Masvingo. At the time of his arrest, the journalist was travelling with permission from the tourism ministry, in the tourist minister’s car with his driver, Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi […]

British freelance journalist and documentary maker Paul Martin was arrested on Sunday 14 February upon arriving at a court house in Gaza City to provide evidence in a trial. Martin, who has worked for the BBC and the London-based The Times newspaper, will be detained for 15 days of interrogation, according to West Bank-based Ma’an News Agency. […]

A Turkish court on 10 December sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for publishing what the court called Kurdish propaganda, only two weeks after the European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay over 40,000 Euros to 20 Turkish journalists as compensation for having violated their rights. A […]