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Sudanese security officers attacked BBC correspondent James Copnall on Tuesday as he was reporting on a demonstration and ensuing arrests, the journalist reported. Officers also confiscated Copnall's recording equipment, New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Police in Khartoum, who had detained numerous protesters, also deleted photographs from the...

Elba Yolibeth Rubio and Elia Xiomara Hernández, two reporters for community radio La Voz de Zacate Grande, were arrested in Honduras after covering a family’s eviction from land on the southern island of Zacate Grande by police and marines on December 15, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Around 20 arrests were made when the family, with the support of...

Dorah Masseung, the executive news director of Papua New Guinea's main public radio broadcaster, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), has been suspended as a result of presumed pressure from the authorities amid a political crisis, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Her removal was followed by a directive from the station’s management requiring...

A recent spate of journalists' arrests in Zimbabwe has compelled the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and more than 100 journalists to petition Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to stop the harassment of the media. According to MISA, among other cases, the petition is a reaction to the arrest of Nqobani Ndlovu from The Standard newspaper. Ndlovu was arrested on November 17 in Bulawayo...

Belarusian authorities must stop harassing independent media outlets and journalists and allow them to cover the December 19 presidential elections without fear of reprisal, New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. On Wednesday, the Minsk-based pro-opposition news website Charter 97 reported that authorities had opened their third criminal case this...

The Lebanese news website Al-Akhbar is being harassed after it published US diplomatic cables that were first disclosed by WikiLeaks. The website was hacked last week by unknown attackers, while the Tunisian government blocked domestic access to the site. Saudi officials blocked access to the independent website Elaph, which also published some of the cables. "We condemn efforts to restrict news...

New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Saudi authorities to immediately release Mohamed al-Abdulkarim, an Islamic law professor, human rights activist, and the editor-in-chief of an online magazine. He was arrested on Sunday, two weeks after an article he wrote was published online. Al-Abdulkarim wrote critically about the Saudi Arabian royal family...

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...

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...

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...