Turkish investigators have secretly listened into telephone calls to and from popular daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, the Turkish Justice Ministry confirmed on Thursday, according to Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News newspaper. The wiretapping took place without the necessary approval of the Turkish courts. Investigators undertook the controversial eavesdropping as part of an ongoing police probe – known […]

The lower house of Argentina’s National Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, approved late on Wednesday a controversial telecommunications bill containing provisions that endanger media freedom in the country’s broadcasting sector. Argentina’s Senate must now vote on the bill. Legislators passed the draft “Audiovisual Communication Law”, ostensibly aimed at creating more media pluralism in the country by replacing […]

The lawyer of a Sri Lankan journalist sentenced at the end of August to 20 years in prison under anti-terror legislation for criticizing the Sri Lankan government’s attacks against the Tamil Tiger rebels filed an appeal on Tuesday. Tissainayagam has been imprisoned since March 2008. J. S. Tissainayagam, who ran the North Eastern Monthly magazine, and was […]

The executive arm of Argentina’s government is seeking to pass a telecommunications bill before the line-up of the country’s parliament changes in December. The draft law, containing media freedom-threatening provisions that would affect television and radio broadcasters, comes amid broader concern about increased government pressure on the media. The executive sent the draft “Audiovisual Communication […]