A Turkish court yesterday sentenced the trigger-man in the 2007 murder of International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Hrant Dink to almost 23 years in prison. A juvenile court in Istanbul imposed nearly the maximum sentence on ultranationalist Ogün Samast – who was 17 at the time of Dink’s killing – after convicting […]

Slovakian courts violated a publisher’s rights to freedom of expression and information when they ordered it to issue a correction and pay compensation over reports of a high-ranking police official’s alleged drunken public behaviour, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. A seven-judge panel on Tuesday unanimously overruled a decision against Bratislava-based multimedia publishing […]

The body of a Mexican journalist who disappeared Sunday from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found dead yesterday. Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a police beat reporter for daily newspaper Notiver, was found with her throat slit behind the headquarters of another newspaper, Imagen. According to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, […]

Dolgor Chuluunbaatar, the editor-in-chief of Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar Times who was imprisoned in March for the alleged illegal privatization of a newspaper, was released on bail today on the grounds of poor health according to human rights organization Globe International. “He’s at home right now at a hospital getting treatment for an eye condition,” Globe International […]