Superiors at a Ljubljana, Slovenia, district court have endangered journalists’ right to protect the confidentiality of their sources by ordering the checking of traffic-data of telephone calls made between judges and journalists, the Slovenian daily Dnevnik has reported. According to a 4 December article published in the newspaper and quoting anonymous sources at the district […]

An Istanbul criminal court has again ordered the temporary closure of a Turkish newspaper, after accusing it of publishing propaganda for a terrorist organisation, IPI Turkey reported. The 9 December decision to prohibit publication of the weekly Aydınlık for one month constitutes at least the third newspaper ban this year in Turkey. In June, and […]

Fred M’membe, editor-in-chief and owner of the Zambian daily the Post, appeared again in court on contempt charges brought against him and his newspaper in connection with an op-ed published in August this year that criticized the then-ongoing “obscenity” case against the Post editor Chansa Kabwela. In a decision hailed by IPI as a press […]

Nepalese Journalist Tika Bista was on Wednesday airlifted to Kathmandu Model Hospital for treatment a day after being assaulted by unidentified persons near her home in Garayala VDC, Rukum District, in Western Nepal. Doctors treating her said she was attacked with domestic weapons and suffered deep wounds. Her condition is now stable. Bista, who writes […]