A court in Myanmar on Monday jailed BBC Burmese Service reporter Nay Myo Lin for three months with hard labour for allegedly attacking a policeman while covering student protests last year in Mandalay. A Mandalay court found Lin, 40, guilty of assaulting an on-duty police officer who had reportedly knocked a man off a motorbike. […]

The International Press institute (IPI) today called on Sri Lanka’s government to bring to justice those behind the recent beating of a journalist who was attacked and struck in the head with a pole. Freddy Gamage, editor of website Meepura and convener of Sri Lanka’s Professional Web Journalists Association was walking towards his car after […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) urged Indonesia to ensure the safety of journalists after a reporter covering demonstrations related to the country’s 1965 anti-communist massacre was threatened with violence and forced into hiding. On Thursday, Rappler.com reporter Febriana Firdaus attempted to cover the second day of a gathering in Jakarta of over 300 Islamic hardliners […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of a journalist in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu who was shot down as she left the local university where she was studying, and it called on local and national authorities to bring the killers to justice. Three unidentified gunmen targeted Sagal Salad Osman, a producer of state-run […]