Kaliningrad-based broadcast journalist Olga Kotovskaya fell to her death from a fourteenth-floor window on 16 November, in what authorities quickly termed a “suicide”, according to local news reports. However, colleagues and others close to the journalist believe that Kotovskaya – who had recently won a key court battle linked to her broadcaster – was murdered […]

Tunisian courts sentenced government critic Taoufik Ben Brik to six months in prison on Thursday for assaulting a woman in public, on charges that have been widely derided by free press and human rights group as baseless and politicized. Ben Brik was arrested on 29 October 2009 after a woman filed a complaint following a […]

With a vote of nine to five*, the Advisory Board of Germany’s public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) on Friday blocked the contract extension of the TV station’s current editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender, raising serious concerns of political interference at the public broadcaster. Markus Schächter, ZDF’s director-general, had requested that Brender’s contract be extended by the […]

Work colleagues concerned by the disappearance of radio journalist José Emilio Galindo Robles found his body yesterday at his Ciudad Guzmán home, according to local media reports. Investigators have since confirmed that a skull fracture was the cause of death in a presumed murder. Galindo Robles, the director of Guadalajara University Radio, specialised in investigating […]