The Editors’ Guild of India and other local journalists’ associations on Thursday condemned the arrest and summary sentencing of the editor of Tamil newspaper Dinamalar, B. Lenin. On Wednesday, security agents in Chennai, in Tamil Nadu state, entered the offices of the Tamil daily newspaper, and took the news editor with them. Lenin’s arrest came after Dinamalar reported […]

An Azeri court on Wednesday sentenced an online sports writer and a website project head to one year and six month prison terms respectively, for allegedly “insulting” the president of a local football club and accusing him of “committing a grave crime,” the Baku-based media freedom organisation the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS) […]

Lawyers representing Slovene daily Dnevnik on Wednesday received notification of a Ljubljana Court of Appeal decision overturning a gag order imposed on the newspaper earlier this year. The gag order, implemented on 6 August, followed articles printed in Dnevnik in July suggesting an Italian businessman’s involvement in corruption. Lawyers representing the businessman claimed that the newspaper had damaged his […]

A press freedom protest organised by the National Federation of the Italian Press, in the Italian capital Rome on Saturday, and which according to the organisers drew over 300,000 participants, was on the same day criticised by Italian public broadcaster Rai 1. In its 8 pm news show, the broadcaster showed an “editorial” in which […]