Just a day after the 23 November global International Day to End Impunity, commemorating a 2009 massacre in the Philippines in which 32 journalists were killed, a radio journalist in the Philippines survived a shooting attack. On 24 November, Michael James Licuanan, or “James Dacoycoy” to his listeners, was shot by two assailants on a […]

Harassment and murders of journalists, criminal defamation laws and the lack of access to information legislation are the greatest problems currently affecting Philippines journalists. In spite of a relatively favorable attitude towards press freedom and freedom of information on the part of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, the government has so far failed […]

An Azerbaijani journalist and writer known for his criticism of the governments in Baku and Tehran has died four days after a brutal stabbing attack. Rafiq Tağı was stabbed seven times outside his Baku home on 19 November, according to various news sources.  He was transported to a hospital and had been recovering from what […]

U.S. journalist Mona Eltahawy was freed in Cairo on Thursday morning, 12 hours after she was arrested, according to a post on the columnist’s Twitter feed. A second journalist, Jehane Noujaim, who was detained on Wednesday, remains in custody. Eltahawy was detained for nearly twelve hours. Upon her release, she apparently tweeted that she had […]