A high-profile journalist who has criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s economic strategies has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, news reports said Tuesday. Bahman Ahmadi Amoui “has been sentenced to seven years and four months in jail plus 34 lashes,” the reformist Kaleme and Rahesabz websites said, according to AFP. Amoui was […]

At least three people were killed on Tuesday in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the city’s Press Club, according to media reports. Two policemen and a passer-by were killed, Reuters reported. At least 17 people were wounded. Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, has been wracked by […]

An Iraqi journalist reporting for Britain’s Guardian newspaper in Afghanistan was released along with two Afghan colleagues after being held hostage for six days in Afghanistan’s North Eastern region. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was in contact with The Guardian on 9 December. Two days later the newspaper was informed that the three journalists had been kidnapped. News of the kidnapping had […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), its affiliate, the Southeast Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), and the IPI National Committee in Slovakia are concerned about a recent statement by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accusing local publishers of joining forces in a coordinated campaign against the Slovakian government and Fico’s party, Smer. Fico also compared newspaper publishers […]