The Dhaka office of Bangladesh’s Amar Desh newspaper was stormed by police on Wednesday, just hours after Dhaka’s deputy commissioner, Muhibul Haque, ordered its publishing license suspended. Police also arrested acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on fraud charges, according to local and international news reports. The move comes only a month after the Bangladeshi government banned […]

The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that Spain’s sentencing of a Spanish editor over an article in his newspaper linking Morocco’s now-deceased King Hassan II to drug-dealers was a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention, which protects the rights of freedom of expression and of the press. The case dates […]

A day after Israeli commandos intercepted a Gaza-bound flotilla, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, over 30 journalists who were on board the boats reportedly remained in detention in Israel. A communications blackout was imposed on them, and on the hundreds of activists from the boats who also remained detained as they underwent […]

The Bermudan government has said it will withdraw a worrying draft bill that would have required the establishment of a statutory media council in the country, and included several provisions which were detrimental to press freedom, if the media fulfils its promise to set up a voluntary council, Premier Ewart Brown told members of parliament on […]