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Gambia: Daily Observer correspondent arrested

The distressing string of journalist arrests continues in Gambia, as Sidiq Asemota, senior legal correspondent for the Daily Observer, was jailed on Tuesday on unknown charges. Asemota was arrested while covering court affairs for the paper. According to the Daily Observer’s own reports, Asemota believes the jailing is in connection to a story about the […]

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Executive from radio station in Nepal found dead in neighbouring district in India

Conflicting reports indicate that a media owner and managing director of a radio station in Nepal was found dead on July 7 in a neighbouring district in India. The Press Trust of India reported that police said Santosh Gupta – managing director of the Birgunj-based Radio Bindaas FM, which Gupta founded only three months earlier […]

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IPI Executive Board elects Russian journalist as new chair

The International Press Institute (IPI) this week added new members to its Executive Board and elected Russian journalist Galina Sidorova as the board’s chair. IPI members on June 25 voted at their annual General Assembly to elect Umud Mirzayev of Azerbaijan to IPI’s Executive Board, to give a second four-year term to five other incumbent […]

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Russian lawmaker seeks to re-criminalise libel

Russian legislators on Friday proposed a bill to recriminalise libel, a move that came just over six months after the crime was downgraded to an administrative offence. The Moscow Times reported yesterday that the bill would introduce maximum fines of approximately 500,000 roubles (approximately 12,324 euros) or up to five years in prison for libel, […]

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