A Russian journalist charged with slander over his reporting on a deadly 17 August explosion at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant was beaten unconscious on Wednesday by two unidentified men in his south-Siberian hometown of Abakan, according to news reports. In reporting on the dam disaster, Mikhail Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the online journal Novy Fokus, published […]

On the 9th of September, 2009, the International Press Institute (IPI) believes it is only fitting to call attention to the nine unresolved cases in its Justice Denied campaign, which highlights the unlawful imprisonment of journalists around the world and the impunity from which the murderers of journalists all too often benefit. Journalists are routinely […]

A journalist for local Afghan newspaper Jahan-e Naw (New World) arrested in October 2007 in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, charged with blasphemy for downloading from the Internet an article critical of Islam’s position on women’s rights and distributing it to some of his fellow students, and sentenced to 20 years in prison – […]

A Ljubljana District Court on 4 September rejected Slovene daily Dnevnik’s appeal against a temporary injunction that stops the paper reporting on an Italian businessman’s alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. The injunction, which carries fines of up to €500,000 for failure to comply, relates to articles printed in Dnevnik on 29 July in which […]