Zimbabwe authorities yesterday prevented The Standard newspaper reporter Nqodani Ndlovu from leaving detention, overruling a court decision to grant him bail, media reports said. Ndlovu was arrested in connection with a 14 November report alleging that the police force was allowing former war veterans and retired officers to take up senior posts without sitting for […]

A year after the massacre of 57 people, among them 32 journalists, in the Phillipines province of Maguindanao, justice has yet to be fully served. The killings are alleged to have constituted part of a suspected plot orchestrated by the powerful Ampatuan clan to prevent a rival’s attempt to gain political power. The clan had […]

Respected Russian journalist Oleg Kashin, who was attacked near his house on November 6, yesterday gave evidence to investigators on his attack. Moscow-based news website Lifenews released a graphic video of the attack which left Kashin with a broken jaw, leg, fractured skull, and several crushed fingers. Doctors induced a coma. According to newspaper reports, […]

The Iranian authorities have charged two German reporters who work for the tabloid Bild am Sonntag with espionage, following their attempts to interview the lawyer and son of Sakineh Mohammadi Aschtiani, 43, whose 2006 death sentence by stoning prompted international outrage, reports say. The reporter and photojournalist were arrested on 10 October in Tabriz in […]