Today marks the seventh anniversary of the sentencing of Cuban journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes to 27 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down to any of the journalists charged during Cuba’s notorious 2003 ‘Black Spring’ crackdown against the media. More than 29 journalists were arrested in the roundups that began on 18 March 2003, […]

Vedat Kurşun, former editor of the Kurdish daily, Azadiya Welat was on Wednesday sentenced by a Turkish court to three years in prison in connection with two articles deemed to have spread propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK – which is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union, the United States […]

A Somali radio journalist kidnapped in Mogadishu on 27 March was freed on Thursday. Radio journalist Abdul Karim Mohamed Hersi was freed last night by the Islamist insurgent group Al Shabab, according to National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) Coordinator Mohamed Ibrahim. Hersi, a reporter with Mogadishu-based Radio Holy Koran, had been taken from the […]

The debate on Internet censorship in China flared today with reports that Yahoo Email accounts of foreign journalists in the country had been hacked and blocked, or were otherwise rendered inaccessible. According to the Associated Press, several foreign correspondents based in China have reported receiving error messages when attempting to log into Yahoo Email accounts. […]