On Tuesday, a Tunisian court sentenced editor Zouhair Makhlouf to three months in prison for publishing a damaging interview without consent. He has also been ordered to pay 6,000 Tunisian dinar (about 3,100 Euro) in damages. His lawyers, who plan to appeal the decision, complained that the trial was unfair and that the judge interrupted […]

An IPI press freedom advocacy mission will visit Bangladesh from 2-6 December 2009, to meet with representatives from a broad range of media as well as top government officials and members of civil society. The mission will follow up on some of the issues discussed in the December 2008 IPI press freedom mission and assess […]

Kaliningrad-based broadcast journalist Olga Kotovskaya fell to her death from a fourteenth-floor window on 16 November, in what authorities quickly termed a “suicide”, according to local news reports. However, colleagues and others close to the journalist believe that Kotovskaya – who had recently won a key court battle linked to her broadcaster – was murdered […]

Tunisian courts sentenced government critic Taoufik Ben Brik to six months in prison on Thursday for assaulting a woman in public, on charges that have been widely derided by free press and human rights group as baseless and politicized. Ben Brik was arrested on 29 October 2009 after a woman filed a complaint following a […]