Hungary’s parliament last week passed another element of a controversial media reform package which will force journalists to identify their sources in stories involving national security and public safety. The law comes into effect on 1 January 2011. If faced with judicial action, journalists would only be able to keep their source secret if such […]

The Steering Committe of the Brussels-based European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) on Friday 5 November lent its full support to a campaign by the Turkish ‘Freedom for Journalists Platform which seeks the release of all journalists currently imprisoned in Turkey. EFJ representatives, along with their colleagues from the NUJ branch and the AGJPB, demonstrated in […]

Ugandan High Court judge Vincent Musoke-Kibuuka has ordered Uganda’s Rolling Stone newspaper (no relation to the US American magazine) to stop publishing the names of homosexuals, after the paper’s “revelations” led to attacks against allegedly gay Ugandans. On 19 October, the newspaper began publishing batches of names from a series it called “100 Pictures of […]

South Africa’s controversial Protection of Information Bill – which IPI and other press freedom groups had warned would gravely undermine free media – will be redrafted, South African MPs said on Friday, according to local news reports. A parliamentary ad hoc committee tasked with overseeing processing of the bill has agreed to refer to proposals […]