Authorities in Zambia last week arrested two journalists with alleged ties to a controversial government watchdog website and charged them with sedition, local media reported. Thomas Zyambo, a journalist who was allegedly working for the online news source, the Zambian Watchdog, was arrested on July 9 along with another journalist and academic, Clayson Hamasaka, in […]

Nearly two years after being sentenced to prison for insulting a local politician in a newspaper column, Colombian journalist Luis Agustín González was acquitted last week of all charges by the country’s Supreme Court. In its ruling, dated July 10, the Court stated that “in terms of freedom of expression, freedom of political opinion enjoys […]

According to a press release issued by the Afghanistan Journalist Centre, Kabul police released Mandegar newspaper reporter Azizu Rhaman Sakhizadeh from detention today. Sakhizadeh had reportedly been under police custody for more than 11 days and was subject to several hours of police interrogation Wednesday prior to his release on bail. Mandegar Editor-in-Chief Nazari Paryani told […]

The Jamaican Senate on Friday unanimously passed a bill that would make the island nation the first in the Caribbean to abolish all forms of criminal defamation. The bill (Defamation Act 2013) would replace both the Libel and Slander Act (1851) and the Defamation Act (1961), which regulate criminal and civil defamation, respectively. Currently, those […]