An Iraqi journalist reporting for Britain’s Guardian newspaper in Afghanistan was released along with two Afghan colleagues after being held hostage for six days in Afghanistan’s North Eastern region. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was in contact with The Guardian on 9 December. Two days later the newspaper was informed that the three journalists had been kidnapped. News of the kidnapping had […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), its affiliate, the Southeast Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), and the IPI National Committee in Slovakia are concerned about a recent statement by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accusing local publishers of joining forces in a coordinated campaign against the Slovakian government and Fico’s party, Smer. Fico also compared newspaper publishers […]

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder of Deyda Hydara, editor and co-founder of the Point daily newspaper in Gambia. Hydara was fatally shot by unknown attackers on 16 December 2004. The murderers remain at large. Disturbingly, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh seems uninterested in pursuing the murderers. In June this year, he told reporters that […]

In a landmark ruling on 15 December, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) confirmed the rights of news organisations to protect the confidentiality of their sources. With this ruling, five news organisations – The Guardian, The Independent, the Times, the Financial Times and Reuters – won a case against the Belgian-based brewers Interbrew. The news organisations brought the case before […]