Bangladeshi journalist F.M. Masum, a staff correspondent of the daily New Age in Bangladesh, was on Thursday (22 Oct.) taken from his residence by members of the country’s infamous Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and was then held incommunicado, and brutally tortured, for over ten hours, before being released. Masum, who had injury marks all over […]

Ten years after Dutch Financial Times correspondent Sander Thoenes was murdered in East Timor, participants at a commemoration held at the ‘Frontline Club’ in London demanded that the Indonesian authorities bring to justice those responsible for his killing. In September 1999, Thoenes went to East Timor to report on the aftermath of a referendum vote for independence […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Thursday completed a four-day press freedom mission to Lebanon during which it held discussions with leading editors and journalists, as well as political leaders and government officials. Participants in the discussions noted that Lebanon has a freer and more diverse and vibrant media than any other Arab country, and […]

Demonstrators in Bolivia’s administrative capital, La Paz, exploded dynamite cartridges outside the offices of daily newspaper La Razón newspaper on Wednesday, according to local media. The demonstrators were allegedly angered by the newspaper’s editorial stance, which they claim is “at the mercy of and in favour of businessmen,” reports La Razón. Nobody was injured in the attack. The […]