The retrial of four men recently acquitted of crimes connected to the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will go ahead, a Moscow court decided today, despite requests from both the journalist’s family and the prosecution to have the case returned to the Prosecutor-General for further investigation. On 19 February 2009, a Moscow jury […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned at reports that six Gambian journalists arrested on charges of seditious publication in June after they lent support to a press union statement criticizing the government have been found guilty of sedition by a court in the capital Banjul. “The conviction of these journalists is yet another serious […]

Witnesses took the stand in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Thursday for a second day in the trial of Zambia’s The Post news editor Chansa Kabwela, who faces up to five years in prison over charges of ‘circulating obscene material with intent to corrupt public morals’ after she mailed photographs of a woman giving birth […]

Around 30 armed, pro-government activists raided the premises of Venezuelan private broadcaster Globovision during a live news broadcast shortly before 13.00 on Monday 3 August, exploding two tear gas canisters and injuring four people in the process. Footage taken at the scene appears to show the assailants – who were dressed in red berets and […]