The International Press Institute is concerned at reports that two journalists from Radio Horyaal in Somaliland have been fined and narrowly avoided a six-month prison sentence for “disseminating information that resulted in loss of life and property.” Somaliland’s Hargeisa Regional Court on Sunday reportedly sentenced the two journalists, Mohamed Osman Mire and Ahmed Suleyman Dhuhul, […]

As U.S. troops continue to hand power over to Iraqi authorities in Iraq, IPI calls on the Iraqi government to protect press freedom in the country. Iraq remains the most dangerous country in the world for journalists – who now face a new threat in the form of a draft law published in Iraq on […]

The retrial of four men recently acquitted of crimes connected to the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will go ahead, a Moscow court decided today, despite requests from both the journalist’s family and the prosecution to have the case returned to the Prosecutor-General for further investigation. On 19 February 2009, a Moscow jury […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned at reports that six Gambian journalists arrested on charges of seditious publication in June after they lent support to a press union statement criticizing the government have been found guilty of sedition by a court in the capital Banjul. “The conviction of these journalists is yet another serious […]