Nearly two years after being sentenced to prison for insulting a local politician in a newspaper column, Colombian journalist Luis Agustín González was acquitted last week of all charges by the country’s Supreme Court. In its ruling, dated July 10, the Court stated that “in terms of freedom of expression, freedom of political opinion enjoys […]

According to a press release issued by the Afghanistan Journalist Centre, Kabul police released Mandegar newspaper reporter Azizu Rhaman Sakhizadeh from detention today. Sakhizadeh had reportedly been under police custody for more than 11 days and was subject to several hours of police interrogation Wednesday prior to his release on bail. Mandegar Editor-in-Chief Nazari Paryani told […]

The Jamaican Senate on Friday unanimously passed a bill that would make the island nation the first in the Caribbean to abolish all forms of criminal defamation. The bill (Defamation Act 2013) would replace both the Libel and Slander Act (1851) and the Defamation Act (1961), which regulate criminal and civil defamation, respectively. Currently, those […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned a decision by the management of Croatian football club GNK Dinamo Zagreb prohibiting journalists from web portal Index.hr from attending any matches or training sessions at Maksimir Stadium, the club’s home grounds. The club’s management reportedly based its […]