Simon Abou Fadel, the owner of Alkalima online newspaper and writer with Al-Diyar newspaper, has been charged with “insulting” the president after criticising his role in months-long efforts to create a national unity cabinet – which was formed on Monday – in a show aired by private broadcaster MTV, on Wednesday (4 November). Lebanon’s Daily […]

The editor-in-chief of Zambian daily the Post, and International Press Institute (IPI) member, Fred M’membe, appeared in court in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Monday on contempt charges brought after the newspaper published an op-ed in August 2009 about an ongoing ‘obscenity’ case against the Post editor Chansa Kabwela. In the piece, entitled “The Chansa Kabwela case: a […]

Unidentified assailants yesterday threw a military grenade at the offices of a popular Honduran radio station, injuring two people and damaging the radio’s main broadcast booth. The M-26-type device exploded around 10.30 p.m. local time on the roof of Radio HRN in Honduras’ capital of Tegucigalpa. According to an article on HRN’s website, the booth […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) calls for an immediate, transparent investigation into the 1 November brutal beating of Kyrgyz journalist Kubanychbek Joldoshev in Kyrgyzstan’s southern Osh region. Joldoshev, a correspondent for local newspaper Osh Shamy (“The Torch of Osh”), told Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) he was attacked after a taxi he was […]