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Finnish journalist to take case to European Court of Human Rights

Finnish photojournalist Markus Pentikäinen, convicted in 2007 for ignoring a police order to stop reporting at the scene of a 2006 demonstration in Helsinki, is to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after a Finnish Supreme Court decision of 1 September gave him “no leave to appeal,” according to weekly current […]

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Lubna Hussein convicted, ordered to pay €146 or go to prison for a month, in infamous trousers trial case

Sudan has convicted journalist and former UN employee Lubna Hussein of violating the country’s decency laws, for wearing trousers, and has ordered her to pay a fine equivalent to about €146 – or spend a month in prison. ‘I will not pay the money and I will go to prison,’ Lubna told Reuters by phone […]

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Three journalists held in Sri Lanka without charge

Three journalists for Sri Lanka’s Lanka Irida newspaper arrested on Wednesday by police in the southern Deniyaya region have yet to be released – less than a week after another Sri Lankan journalist, J.S Tissanayagam, was handed a 20-year prison sentence for criticizing the Sri Lankan government offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, and allegedly accepting […]

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Photojournalist shot dead in El Salvador

IPI is saddened by the Wednesday 2 September murder in El Salvador’s Tonacatepeque municipality of French-Spanish photojournalist and documentary-maker Christian Poveda. Police found Poveda’s body in a car in the small village of El Rosario, with multiple bullet wounds to the head. Poveda, who had closely followed the lives of El Salvador’s ‘Mara 18’ gang […]

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