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Kenya’s ‘Nation’ media group tells IPI it will resist government pressure over investigative documentary about Ethiopian rebel fighters

Kenya’s Nation Media Group will resist pressure from both the Ethiopian and Kenyan Governments, and complete the broadcast of a four-part Nation Television (NTV) investigative documentary on rebel fighters in Ethiopia, sources inside the news organisation have told the International Press Institute (IPI). “Inside Rebel Territory: Rag-Tag Fighters of the Oromo Liberation Front,” a four-part […]

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SOMALILAND UPDATE: ‘Radio Horyaal’ journalists narrowly avoid prison sentence for ‘disseminating information that resulted in loss of life and property’; both are fined

The International Press Institute is concerned at reports that two journalists from Radio Horyaal in Somaliland have been fined and narrowly avoided a six-month prison sentence for “disseminating information that resulted in loss of life and property.” Somaliland’s Hargeisa Regional Court on Sunday reportedly sentenced the two journalists, Mohamed Osman Mire and Ahmed Suleyman Dhuhul, […]

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As threat of violence still looms large over the media in Iraq, another menace emerges in form of draft law to ‘protect’ journalists

As U.S. troops continue to hand power over to Iraqi authorities in Iraq, IPI calls on the Iraqi government to protect press freedom in the country. Iraq remains the most dangerous country in the world for journalists – who now face a new threat in the form of a draft law published in Iraq on […]

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Politkovskaya retrial to go ahead, as court denies family and prosecution request for fresh investigation

The retrial of four men recently acquitted of crimes connected to the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will go ahead, a Moscow court decided today, despite requests from both the journalist’s family and the prosecution to have the case returned to the Prosecutor-General for further investigation. On 19 February 2009, a Moscow jury […]

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