It has been more than seven months since the departure of President Ben Ali, whose government was notorious for the censorship, assault and imprisonment of journalists. But lately, a number of attacks on journalists seem to indicate that promises by the new government to uphold free expression have not been met. On 27 July, the […]

A Turkish court yesterday sentenced the trigger-man in the 2007 murder of International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Hrant Dink to almost 23 years in prison. A juvenile court in Istanbul imposed nearly the maximum sentence on ultranationalist Ogün Samast – who was 17 at the time of Dink’s killing – after convicting […]

Slovakian courts violated a publisher’s rights to freedom of expression and information when they ordered it to issue a correction and pay compensation over reports of a high-ranking police official’s alleged drunken public behaviour, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. A seven-judge panel on Tuesday unanimously overruled a decision against Bratislava-based multimedia publishing […]

The body of a Mexican journalist who disappeared Sunday from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found dead yesterday. Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a police beat reporter for daily newspaper Notiver, was found with her throat slit behind the headquarters of another newspaper, Imagen. According to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, […]