A young newspaper reporter in a small American town got a tip from a police source that officers were about to raid an abandoned rail passenger wagon known for being an underground hangout for small-time drug users and gay men. Photos of several men being arrested and booty from the raid – including marijuana cigarettes […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Egyptian government to reverse its move to silence four news channels in Egypt. Al Jazeera and other news agencies reported yesterday that an administrative court ordered Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr and three other TV stations – Ahrar 25, Al Yarmuk and Al Quds – to cease […]

Egyptian authorities should immediately release three Al Jazeera journalists who were jailed during last month’s nationwide crackdown on demonstrators, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Security forces in the past month have rounded up numerous journalists, including photographers and correspondents for international media, in the aftermath of a crackdown on demonstrators loyal to the […]

A bad joke. That’s how one prominent Mexican editor described to me the trial of Jorge Antonio Hernández, also known as “El Silva”, who was sentenced this April to 38 years and two months in prison for the murder of an esteemed investigative reporter, Regina Martínez Pérez, in the state of Veracruz, allegedly during a […]