Dogan Yayin Holding, owners of the Dogan Media Group, Turkey’s largest media conglomerate, announced on Tuesday that Turkey’s Finance Ministry had levied an unprecedented TL 3.75 billion, or 1.74 billion Euro, fine against them for alleged “tax irregularities.” The huge penalty, handed down following examinations of tax reports from 2005, 2006 and 2007, follows a […]

Finnish photojournalist Markus Pentikäinen, convicted in 2007 for ignoring a police order to stop reporting at the scene of a 2006 demonstration in Helsinki, is to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after a Finnish Supreme Court decision of 1 September gave him “no leave to appeal,” according to weekly current […]

Sudan has convicted journalist and former UN employee Lubna Hussein of violating the country’s decency laws, for wearing trousers, and has ordered her to pay a fine equivalent to about €146 – or spend a month in prison. ‘I will not pay the money and I will go to prison,’ Lubna told Reuters by phone […]

Three journalists for Sri Lanka’s Lanka Irida newspaper arrested on Wednesday by police in the southern Deniyaya region have yet to be released – less than a week after another Sri Lankan journalist, J.S Tissanayagam, was handed a 20-year prison sentence for criticizing the Sri Lankan government offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, and allegedly accepting […]