Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who spent nine months in prison after throwing his shoes at former U.S President George W. Bush at a press conference in Baghdad last year, has been released. He had originally been sentenced to three years, for insulting a foreign head of state. The sentence was subsequently reduced to one year […]

A Madrid prosecutor on Monday demanded a three-year prison term – and a three year ban on practising journalism – for El Mundo Deputy-Editor Antonio Rubio, who is accused of allegedly “discovering and revealing state secrets.” The charges stem from articles published in the Spanish daily on 31 May 2005 detailing confidential reports which an […]

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced on Wednesday that it has initiated a war crimes investigation into the murder of five journalists collectively known as the “Balibo Five,” in East Timor in 1975 – a notable development in a crime for which so far no one has been held responsible, or prosecuted. A Radio Australia […]

A Russian journalist charged with slander over his reporting on a deadly 17 August explosion at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant was beaten unconscious on Wednesday by two unidentified men in his south-Siberian hometown of Abakan, according to news reports. In reporting on the dam disaster, Mikhail Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the online journal Novy Fokus, published […]