A Turkish public prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into a celebrity and a journalist, over comments made in an interview printed in August in the daily Millyet newspaper which the authorities claim could “incite hatred and enmity,” IPI’s Turkish National Committee reported on Wednesday. Devrim Sevimay, a journalist at Millyet, and Hulya Avsar, a […]

The director of weekly Niger news magazine Le Témoin (The Witness), Ibrahim Soumana Gaoh, was arrested on Sunday on charges of defaming the communications minister, a journalist at the magazine told IPI by phone on Wednesday. Gaoh was arrested in connection with a 14 September article entitled “Wassosso à la SONITEL” which implicated Niger’s communications […]

A reporter, a cameraman and an assistant working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency in Beijing were on Friday assaulted by Chinese authorities who stormed their hotel room around 8 p.m., Kyodo News have reported. Kyodo News alleged that the authorities kicked the three media professionals and hit them on the head to make them kneel […]

Two journalists are among more than 7,000 prisoners being released under an amnesty announced by Burma’s junta on Thursday, news reports said. According to the exiled Burmese news agency Mizzima News, the Burmese censorship board invited local and foreign journalists to come to the notorious Insein Prison for a press conference timed to coincide with […]