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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has urged the British government to “take steps to ensure it upholds the high standards of press freedom expected from a leading democracy.” WAN-IFRA on Tuesday released the results from a fact-finding delegation of international editors sent to the United Kingdom between January 15 and 16 this year. “The lack of any real...

Samah Ibrahim, a reporter for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice newspaper, has been given a one-year sentence. Ibrahim is one of at least 10 journalists imprisoned in the country, Committee to Protect Journalists said. "The Egyptian government apparently feels it has broad license to expand its crackdown on the press--it's getting more and more difficult to keep track of the number of...

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has denounced the assault of presidential candidate Hamden Sabahi’s proponents on a number of photographers and journalists, during their coverage of clashes between Sabahi’s supporters and opponents. On the March 4, at Press Syndicate’s headquarters, clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of the potential presidential...

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), has condemned the arrest of Fedaa Nasser, a reporter for Palestine Today TV, as she was doing a report about how the Jewish holidays in Hebron affect Palestinian citizens. On Sunday morning, March 16, Israeli occupation forces arrested Fedaa Nasser, while she was shooting reportage about the so-called “Purim” holiday of Jewish settlers in...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a five-year jail term given on Monday to Tofiq Yaqublu, an Azerbaijani journalist with the opposition daily Yeni Musavat, and called on authorities to overturn the verdict on appeal. Yaqublu, who was convicted of "organising mass disorder," was arrested in January 2013 in connection with anti-government protests in the town of Ismayilli. He was...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has again urged authorities in Barbados to drop criminal indecency charges against three journalists. Vivian-Anne Gittens, publisher of the Nation newspaper, as well as Nation Editor-in-Chief Roy Morris and senior journalist Sanka Price, face up to five years in prison in connection with the newspaper’s publication in its October 26 edition of a photograph...

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has said that it is worried about a number of recent incidents of pressure on journalists and media in Croatia. Ante Tomic, a writer and columnist with the daily Jutarnji List, reported that he was attacked on February 23 while sitting in a cafe in the centre of the town of Split by an...

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesay welcomed a move by Grenada’s Parliament to remove three controversial sections from an electronic defamation law passed last year. Grenada’s official Government Information Service Opens external link in new windowreported that the House of Representatives on Friday voted to amend the Electronic Crimes Act 2013 by withdrawing three sections...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called for an end to violence, harassment, intimidation and other pressure on journalists and media outlets in Ukraine. IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie, in an open letter to authorities in Crimea, urged them to bring to justice those responsible for a number of recent incidents in the region and to end efforts to block media outlets from...

Russian authorities have finally dropped the drug possession charges they first brought against Sochi-based independent journalist Nikolai Yarst in May 2013. Sochi police headquarters formally notified his lawyers on March 15 that the case has been dismissed. Yarst and a colleague were heading to an appointment at the Sochi office of the Investigative Committee (Russia’s FBI equivalent) in the...