SILIVRI, Turkey, July 30, 2012 – YOU ARE MY PARTNER IN CRIME “Is there anybody out there?” Every now and then, in my prison cell, where there is a water shortage for 17 hours, the lights are on for 24 hours, and where I am being monitored by two different cameras at all times, I find […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today urged a commission responsible for writing a new Constitution for Turkey to reject proposed amendments that would severely weaken current language protecting media freedom. Bianet reported that Turkey’s Constitutional Reconciliation Commission is set to vote Wednesday on a proposal […]

The Federal High Court in Ethiopia yesterday upheld a ban on last week’s edition of Feteh newspaper, according to news reports and journalists. The court said the ban met the criteria set out in Article 42 of Ethiopia’s 2008 Freedom of the Mass Media and Access to Information Proclamation, which allows prosecutors to seize any publication that […]

Two journalists were reported missing this week in Latin America: one in Mexico and one in Colombia. Miguel Morales Estrada, who works as a photojournalist for the daily Diario de Poza Rica and as a freelancer for the newspaper Tribuna Papanteca in Papantla in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, was last seen Thursday in Veracruz. […]