Argentina’s senate on Saturday passed a controversial broadcasting bill containing provisions that could damage media freedom in the country. The senate passed the “Audiovisual Communication Law” – a bill ostensibly aimed at increasing plurality in the country’s media – by 44 votes to 24, following a debate that started at around 10.30am local time on […]

The Editors’ Guild of India and other local journalists’ associations on Thursday condemned the arrest and summary sentencing of the editor of Tamil newspaper Dinamalar, B. Lenin. On Wednesday, security agents in Chennai, in Tamil Nadu state, entered the offices of the Tamil daily newspaper, and took the news editor with them. Lenin’s arrest came after Dinamalar reported […]

An Azeri court on Wednesday sentenced an online sports writer and a website project head to one year and six month prison terms respectively, for allegedly “insulting” the president of a local football club and accusing him of “committing a grave crime,” the Baku-based media freedom organisation the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS) […]

Lawyers representing Slovene daily Dnevnik on Wednesday received notification of a Ljubljana Court of Appeal decision overturning a gag order imposed on the newspaper earlier this year. The gag order, implemented on 6 August, followed articles printed in Dnevnik in July suggesting an Italian businessman’s involvement in corruption. Lawyers representing the businessman claimed that the newspaper had damaged his […]