Based on information provided to IPI, on 8 June, police arrested some 50 journalists in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. The arrests came after journalists marched in protest through streets close to the royal palace. The protests allegedly follow the decision of the Nepalese Supreme Court to reverse a closure order issued by the Ministry for Information […]

According to information provided to IPI, journalists were barred from covering last month’s events in Uzbekistan. For several days after the unrest in Andizhan, eastern Uzbekistan, on 13 May, all local and foreign journalists were prevented from reporting in the city. The army and police sealed off the city and those journalists already present were […]

Based on information provided to IPI, on 1 June, Professor Kenneth Good, a political science lecturer at the University of Botswana for the past 15 years, was deported from the country by legal order and a decree from President Festus Mogae. Good’s deportation came only hours after the Lobatse High Court upheld the government’s right […]

At Court No.1 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 27 May, Magistrate Sam Margai charged managing editor Sydney B. Pratt and reporter Dennis Jones of the independent weekly Trumpet with seditious libel. After pleading not guilty to the charges, Pratt and Jones were released on bail of approximately US $16,000. The two journalists are to return […]