Another journalist was killed in a suicide bomb blast Saturday in Pakistan, tragically underscoring the country’s reputation as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Azmat Ali Bangash, a correspondent working part-time for the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), as well as for Pakistan TV, was killed when two bombs exploded […]

Days after Islamist insurgent group Hizbul Islam banned radio stations in Mogadishu from playing music of any description, journalists in the embattled Somali capital found themselves facing an ultimatum from the government after it announced that all radio stations complying with the ban would face closure. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists, (NUSOJ), […]

Ukrainian police on Tuesday assaulted journalists and an editor working for the Express newspaper, who had come to the office of a regional prosecutor to inquire about another Express reporter arrested without charge the previous day. The journalist was detained in Horodok, in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv. The attack, which was filmed (the footage […]

Fiji is on the verge of passing a new media law that could allow the government to imprison journalists for up to five years, ban the ownership of a news organization by anyone other than a Fiji journalist, and allow fines of up to half a million Fiji dollars to be levied against media organizations. […]