Today marks the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder of Deyda Hydara, editor and co-founder of the Point daily newspaper in Gambia. Hydara was fatally shot by unknown attackers on 16 December 2004. The murderers remain at large. Disturbingly, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh seems uninterested in pursuing the murderers. In June this year, he told reporters that […]

Nepalese Journalist Tika Bista was on Wednesday airlifted to Kathmandu Model Hospital for treatment a day after being assaulted by unidentified persons near her home in Garayala VDC, Rukum District, in Western Nepal. Doctors treating her said she was attacked with domestic weapons and suffered deep wounds. Her condition is now stable. Bista, who writes […]

Brankica Stankovic and her team of investigative reporters, who work for the B92 TV programme, “Insajder” (“Insider”), have received several death threats after the latest edition of the programme was broadcast on 3 December 2009. The threats came just after SEEMO concluded a three-day Press Freedom Mission to Serbia from 1-3 December 2009, during which […]

On Sunday 6 December, Bolivians will cast their votes in general elections, with the re-election of the incumbent President, Evo Morales, at stake. However, the voting will take place in a media climate that many among the country’s independent press describe as increasingly oppressive and aggressive. In recent weeks alone, attacks on the media have included […]