This year ushered in a number of major setbacks for the media across the globe, including the threat of new, oppressive media laws, most notably in Egypt, South Africa, Zambia, Hungary and Bermuda, to name but a few countries. There were also at least 66 deaths of journalists reported in 2010, down significantly from the record 110 […]

Five people have been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of planning to kill as many people as possible in a building housing a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed that outraged Muslims across the world, Reuters reported on Wednesday. “It is our assessment that this is a militant Islamist group and […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation, (SEEMO) a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is pleased to hear that the police have detained the alleged perpetrators of the brutal attack on Jutarnji List journalist Dusan Miljus. On 22 December […]

About 20 local and foreign journalists were beaten and jailed in Minsk last week by Belarusian authorities after an opposition rally that followed the announcement of President Alexander Lukashenko’s reelection victory, according to estimates from the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ). Most of those arrested are to remain in custody between five and 15 days. […]