The wife of Andrei Sannikov, an activist arrested for allegedly organizing and participating in a political rally against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on 19 December, has herself been handed a suspended sentence, Reuters reported on Monday. Irina Khalip, correspondent for the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta and a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), was […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is disappointed with a Serbian court’s decision to sentence to only ten months house arrest a person who beat up B92 TV cameraman Bosko Brankovic, breaking his leg, injuring his shoulder and destroying his camera. The light sentence has […]

IPI/IFEX-TMG – 10 May 2011 – Decades of government-imposed restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of media through censorship, imprisonments, and pressure on media outlets and journalists have left the Tunisian media landscape in urgent need of reform, with the promotion of freedom of expression as a founding cornerstone, say members of the International […]

Journalist Yakhya Magomedov of the Russian Islamic newspaper As-Salam was killed on 8 May in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Russian media outlet RIA Novosti reported. He was shot four times near the northern city of Khasavyurt at around 22:30, media freedom observers reported. His death follows an attack on 5 May against Magomed […]