2005-2014

Iran on Tuesday arrested four journalists at the daily Sharq. There have also been recent news reports that indicate the abusive treatment endured by dozens of imprisoned Iranian prisoners has adversely affected the health of many of them--including Issa Saharkhiz, a founding member of the now-defunct Association of Iranian ‎Journalists, who has reportedly undergone surgery for internal...

Broadcaster Al Jazeera said Tuesday its English language service has got a downlink license to broadcast in India. Cable and satellite companies in India will be able to add Al-Jazeera English to their channel line-ups after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting granted the licence, the Qatar-based broadcaster said in a statement. "This is an exciting breakthrough that has been in the works...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the government of Cambodia to ensure the release of Japanese photographer Go Takayama. According to the English-language Phnom Penh Post and the online magazine for the National Press Photographers Association, Takayama was arrested on November 23 after photographing a married couple inside a home. Undercover police detained him and he was...

Pakistani journalist Mehmood Chandio, president of the Mirpurkhas press club and bureau chief for the Sindhi-language television Awaz, was gunned down on Sunday, according to delayed reports received by the new York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Assailants knocked on the door of Chandio's home, firing two or three times when he answered, Mazhar Abbas, a former head of the Pakistan...

Emadoldin Baghi, journalist and emblematic figure in the defence of human rights in Iran, began serving a six-year prison sentence on Sunday. Before turning himself in at Evin prison he said in an interview: In fact neither I nor my lawyers know whether the sentences have been upheld, by what court and in front of which judge! All that happened is that I received a phone call telling me to give...

A court in Jendouba is expected to rule Wednesday in a criminal case against Mouldi Zouabi, a senior reporter for the online Tunisian news outlet Kalima, according to New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The journalist faces assault charges related to an April 1 episode. Zouabi told CPJ he was assaulted by Khalil Maaroufi, a ruling party member who called the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the criminal proceedings launched against KK Shahina, a reporter with the weekly news magazine Tehelkaa, after a story of hers appeared to cast doubt on the prosecution of a prominent Islamic cleric and political figure on terrorism charges. Shahina's story appeared in an issue of Tehelka dated December 4, released a week prior to the...

Two reporters were among over 40 people killed in a double suicide-bombing Monday at a meeting of tribal elders in a government building in Ghalanai, the main town in the northwestern Tribal Area of Mohmand. More than 40 people were killed by the two explosions in quick succession, which were claimed by the Taliban. Abdul Wahad of Express TV and Pervez Khan of Waqt TV were killed in the attacks...

Press freedom groups have condemned the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the leaked US diplomatic cables. ARTICLE 19, Index on Censorship, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have come down heavily on the attempts to hound and eventually silence WikiLeaks. Earlier...

Palestinians’ violations against journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories were much more than the Israeli’s violations during the month of November. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) has monitored a lot of violations against freedom of expression; most of them were committed by the Palestinian security services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The...