A South Sudanese journalist covering a session of the country’s National Assembly yesterday was removed and later allegedly assaulted by security guards, according to news reports. The incident is but the latest in a series of aggressive acts against journalists in South Sudan — raising doubts about the newly independent state’s commitment to press freedom. […]

Violence has intensified in Syria in the wake of a failed United Nations Security Council Resolution, with news reports suggesting Syrian security forces killed as many as 50 people in the city of Homs on Monday morning. Russia and China on Saturday jointly vetoed a resolution that would have backed an Arab League plan calling […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of publishers, editors and leading journalists, condemned the killing of the director of the Shabelle Media Network in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, and called for an end to impunity for journalist killers in the war-torn country. Hassan Osman Abdi, 29, who was also known as […]

The Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council yesterday adopted by consensus the proposals of a working group convened last June to strengthen the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). But included among the non-binding proposals were three recommendations that threaten the reach and independence of the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression—a key bulwark […]