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Thailand's interior minister is under fire for moving to pull a private television channel off of cable networks nationwide, according to the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA). Cable operators, opposition senators, and free expression advocates are calling a directive by Interior Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung - which media reports say threatens cable operators with imprisonment unless they pull...

Three Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ) employees were released Wednesday last from detention without charges being laid, according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). Abel Chikomo, Maureen Kademaunga and Abel Kaingidza were arrested and detained for three nights by Binga Police in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North province before their release. The three, together with another...

Mohamed Nema Oumar, the Mauritanian publisher of the privately-owned, Arabic-language weekly Al-Houriya, was released on Friday evening after being held for 30 hours in a police station in the Nouakchott district of Tevragh Zeina, according to the Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). He was charged two days later with "libel and insult" and was ordered to report to the police twice a week...

Journalists in the Gaza Strip held a symbolic work stoppage on Monday as part of a protest to demand Israel explain why its troops killed a Reuters cameraman in the Palestinian enclave two months ago, says a Reuters report. Responding to condemnation of the killing from the European Union, Israel's foreign minister said during a meeting with EU counterparts that her government would publish the...

Militants who abducted Philippine Television journalist Ces Drilon has set a deadline of Tuesday noon for a ransom of 15 million pesos (337,079 U.S. dollars), local media reported Monday. According to a Xinhua report, the government negotiator for the hostage's release, Alvarez Isnaji, a local town mayor, said Drilon called him around 8:30 a.m. Monday to relay the abductors' message and pleaded...

Three Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ) employees were released on June 11 from detention without charges being laid. Abel Chikomo, Maureen Kademaunga and Abel Kaingidza were arrested and detained for three nights by Binga Police in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North province before their release, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has reported. The three, together with another 10...

The Free Media Movement (FMM) has expressed alarm that another well-known journalist has received a death threat from an unknown caller. Former deputy editor of the Sunday Leader, editor of the monthly magazine Montage and leading investigative journalist and South Asia cocoordinator of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) Frederica Jansz received the death threat at on June 14. The...

Thailand's interior minister is under fire for moving to pulling a private television channel off cable networks nationwide. Cable operators, opposition senators, and free expression advocates are calling a directive by Interior Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung—which media reports say threatens cable operators with imprisonment unless they pull the plug on cable channel ASTV—illegal and...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined the five leading journalists’ organisations in Sri Lanka to demand that senior Tamil journalist JS Tissainayagam, who spent his 100th day in detention on June 15, be released as no evidence has been provided to sustain a charge against him. Tissainayagam, the editor of the newly formed OutreachSL.com news website, was arrested by the...

Another well-known journalist in Sri Lanka received a death threat Saturday morning from an unknown caller. Former deputy editor of the Sunday Leader, editor of the monthly magazine Montage and leading investigative journalist and South Asia co-coordinator of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) Frederica Jansz received the death threat at approximately 11:30 a.m. The Free Media Movement...