Mexican journalist and human rights defender Lydia Cacho Ribeiro was declared today an IPI World Press Freedom Hero, in recognition of her years-long contribution to highlighting the importance of press freedom and investigative journalism in the defence of justice and human rights. Lydia Cacho has become famous for her reports on domestic violence, child prostitution, […]

While members of the Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) welcome Taoufik Ben Brik’s release from prison today, the press freedom coalition condemns the charges against journalist Fahem Boukadous as a political manoeuvre whose true aim is to silence criticism of Tunisian authorities. The TMG is a group of over twenty organisations who belong to the International […]

A prominent Tunisian journalist known for his criticism of the government has been released a day after serving a six-month sentence for allegedly assaulting a woman during a traffic incident. Taoufik Ben Brik, whose arrest and imprisonment are widely believed to have been politically motivated, was sentenced to six months in prison with no parole […]

A journalist in Lagos State, Nigeria, was gunned down on Saturday in an unexplained killing. Edo Sule Ugbagwu, 42, worked as the judiciary correspondent for the Mushin-based newspaper, the Nation. Ugbagwu was shot dead by two gunmen who came to his home around 7pm on 24 April. The Nation’s own report about the murder says he had just […]