The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) today marked the 19th anniversary of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s rise to power with the launch of a campaign to highlight the continued deterioration of press freedom in the country. The MFWA’s “Gambia Day of Action” calls on Internet users worldwide to protest a “new draconian Internet law” […]

A U.S. federal appeals court’s ruling last Friday that no privilege prevents a reporter from being forced to disclose the source of leaked classified information underscores the urgent need for Congress to adopt a shield law, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Reversing a lower court’s decision, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth […]

Authorities in Zambia last week arrested two journalists with alleged ties to a controversial government watchdog website and charged them with sedition, local media reported. Thomas Zyambo, a journalist who was allegedly working for the online news source, the Zambian Watchdog, was arrested on July 9 along with another journalist and academic, Clayson Hamasaka, in […]

Nearly two years after being sentenced to prison for insulting a local politician in a newspaper column, Colombian journalist Luis Agustín González was acquitted last week of all charges by the country’s Supreme Court. In its ruling, dated July 10, the Court stated that “in terms of freedom of expression, freedom of political opinion enjoys […]