Two Spanish journalists sentenced on 23 December 2009 to suspended jail terms of one year and nine months each for “revealing secrets” have appealed their criminal convictions at a Madrid penal court, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Wednesday. Daniel Anido, director of ‘Ser’ radio broadcaster, and Rodolfo Irago, the station’s news director, received the suspended sentences […]

Israeli authorities are threatening to expel Jared Malsin, the American editor of the English section of the Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency, from the country. According to official sources at Ma’an News Agency, Malsin was detained on Tuesday afternoon at Ben Gurion International Airport, as he and his girlfriend were returning from a holiday in the […]

A Peruvian court sentenced newspaper editor Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco to one year in prison for “aggravated defamation” yesterday, in a verdict that local media freedom experts have slammed as retaliation for the journalist’s critical reporting. The heavy sentence stemmed from a 2004 complaint brought against Carrasco, director of the Bagua-based weekly Nor Oriente, by the former […]

JS Tissainayagam, a Sri Lankan Tamil journalist who was sentenced to twenty years in prison in September last year after he criticised the government’s handling of an offensive against Tamil Tiger militants, has been granted bail pending appeal. An appeals court on Monday ordered the journalist to surrender his passport and pay bail of $500, […]