A court in Benin’s largest city, Cotonou, on August 12 handed Sossou, a reporter with the privately owned Benin Web TV news website, a suspended sentence of one month imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 CFA francs (US$850) for alleged “publication of false information by electronic networks” under article 550 of Benin’s digital code
Austin Tice the award winning journalist was detained at a checkpoint in Damascus and has not been in contact with his family since.Yesterday(14 August) marked the 7th year of Austin’s disappearance
Media observers say that these plans only validate their belief that Khalvashi has, all along, been fronting for the ruling Georgian Dream Party and its billionaire chairman, Bidzina Ivanishvili
According to a statement posted on CMTV’s Facebook page on August 6, Wazizi was picked up at 11:00 a.m. August 2 by Muea police who “claimed that he was being invited by their boss to get information about a certain ‘pidgin news.’” CPJ could not confirm the exact location of his arrest in Muea
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Hong Kong authorities to protect journalists covering protests, which are increasingly targeted by the police and mafia gangs
More than a year has passed since protests against changes to Nicaraguas pension program turned into a full scale socio-political crisis
At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of prominent editor Deyda Hydara on December 16 , 2004. He said Jammeh had given the direct order to assassinate Hydara, an outspoken critic who was the managing editor and co-owner of independent newspaper The Point
A year after becoming head of the Pakistani government, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges Prime Minister Imran Khan to acknowledge the alarming deterioration in the state of press freedom in the country, and to take urgent measures to remedy
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Chinese President Xi Jinping to pardon journalist Huang Qi, a two-time winner of the RSF award, sentenced today to 12 years in prison despite very serious health problems
Up to 3,000 journalists have been laid off in Pakistan over the last year. With the country’s traditional media industry in crisis, some unemployed journalists have started up their own digital outlets while others have left the business altogether