Miklos Haraszti will end his six-year term of office as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on 10 March 2010. Haraszti, a Hungarian writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor co-founded the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement and was editor of the Beszélo journal, which was influential in shaping Hungary’s transition to democracy. […]

A TV broadcaster was shot dead in an apparent attack on a fellow journalist in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Monday 1 March, according to media reports. Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 24, a journalism student at the University of Honduras, and a former entertainment presenter on the privately-owned Canal 51 TV station, was travelling with […]

A police officer who murdered an opposition journalist in August 2008 has been freed from jail after serving just three months of a two year sentence. Ibragim Yevloyev, a senior police officer in Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, was found guilty of “reckless homicide resulting from improper performance of professional duties” in December 2009 […]

A Mexican crime reporter missing since January 2007 was killed by members of the Los Zetas drug cartel, only a few days after he wrote an article about the gang’s drug trafficking activities in Mexico’s southeastern state of Tabasco. The article mentioned the names of some of the drug cartel members. Rodolfo Rincón Taracena, an […]