The International Freedom of Expression Exchange Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of 21 IFEX members, is deeply concerned by the prevailing uncertainty and obstruction that have led the National Authority to Reform Information and Communication (INRIC) to end its work. IFEX-TMG members are disturbed by the closure of INRIC, the repeated failures of the […]

The distressing string of journalist arrests continues in Gambia, as Sidiq Asemota, senior legal correspondent for the Daily Observer, was jailed on Tuesday on unknown charges. Asemota was arrested while covering court affairs for the paper. According to the Daily Observer’s own reports, Asemota believes the jailing is in connection to a story about the […]

Conflicting reports indicate that a media owner and managing director of a radio station in Nepal was found dead on July 7 in a neighbouring district in India. The Press Trust of India reported that police said Santosh Gupta – managing director of the Birgunj-based Radio Bindaas FM, which Gupta founded only three months earlier […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) this week added new members to its Executive Board and elected Russian journalist Galina Sidorova as the board’s chair. IPI members on June 25 voted at their annual General Assembly to elect Umud Mirzayev of Azerbaijan to IPI’s Executive Board, to give a second four-year term to five other incumbent […]