An Italian television station argued before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday that the Italian government should pay the station over two billion Euros for not allowing it to take to the airwaves for eleven years. Centro Europa 7 told judges at the Strasbourg court that the sanction was the only way to […]

William Tonet, editor of the independent Luanda paper Folha8, was convicted of libel on 10 October and ordered by a judge to pay 10 million kwanzas (approx. 77,000 EUR) after publishing an article critical of top military officials, according to multiple news reports.  The judge further stipulated that, should Mr. Tonet not pay the fine […]

In an exclusive interview with the Gambian newspaper Daily News on Monday, Justice Minister Edu Gomez said that Chief Ebrimah Manneh, a journalist who was arrested in 2006 and has been missing ever since, is alive and that he is not in government custody. However, he refused to clarify further, saying: “But let the right […]

In an interview with Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Friday, 7 October, Tint Swe, Deputy Director General of Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD), stated: “Press censorship is non-existent in most other countries as well as among our neighbors and as it is not in harmony with democratic practices; press censorship should be abolished in the […]