Glen Johnson is set to be deported from Yemen, media reports said on Friday 1 July, citing multiple Yemeni authorities.  It remains unclear why he was detained. A report on Al Jazeera said this is not the first time that Johnson has had a run-in with the Yemen authorities. Last year, while investigation a story […]

Yesterday, Ethiopian officials told the media that two journalists who were detained last week have been accused of planning to sabotage power and phone lines, and recruiting people to destabilize the country, Reuters and other news outlets reported. Woubshet Taye, deputy editor of the publication Awramba Times, and Reyot Alemu from the Feteh newspaper, were […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticized Turkish prosecutors’ attempt to force media organizations to hand over footage and photographs of an anti-government demonstration in May and the subsequent funeral of a man who died in the protest. Prosecutors in Hopa, on Turkey’s eastern Black Sea coast, threatened media organizations with legal action if they […]

Two journalists working for The Sunday Standard weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe were arrested yesterday for allegedly “publishing false statements prejudicial to the state and undermining public confidence in the law enforcement agents,” after they reported on the arrest of an aide to PM Morgan Tsvangirai last week, local and international reports said. Tsvangirai aide Jameson […]