Jaffer al-Alawai, a prominent journalist, blogger and poet, was arrested on 8 November. He was released after spending over 24 hours in custody. It is still unclear why he was arrested and whether he will be formally charged. Al-Alawai previously worked as an anchor for the Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation, the state-controlled, sole television […]

A freelance journalist was shot on Friday afternoon in Baghlia, a town 60 kilometers east of the capital, Algiers, Reuters reported. According to the news agency, Ahmed Nezar was a correspondent for several local French newspapers. While the reason for his killing is still not known, Reuters said “the killing revived memories of the 1990s […]

Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced it will conduct missions to four Caribbean countries this summer as the next step in an ongoing effort to abolish criminal defamation laws in the region. IPI Representatives, including Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie, will travel in June to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, and […]

With a heavily bandaged head and a noticeable speech impediment, Peruvian reporter Jaime Núñez del Prado described to fellow journalists how four men stormed into his broadcasting studio on Monday and badly beat him – on the orders, he said, of the local mayor. Núñez del Prado told television cameras he believes Calca Mayor Condori […]