Media & freedom of expression
RSS FeedEast Africa: Ethiopia jails editor whose paper challenged the prime minister
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday in connection with a January 2008 column that criticized Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, according to local journalists. Federal High Court Judge...
Ghana: Court drops 'defamation suit' against cartoonist
2010-02-05, Issue 468
A Ghana High Court, sitting in Accra, has dropped a four-year-old defamation suit brought against 'Akosua', a cartoonist with the privately-owned Accra-based Daily Guide newspaper....
Nigeria: IFJ condemns harassment and intimidation of broadcasters
2010-02-05, Issue 468
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned today the continued harassment and intimidation of the reporters of the Plateau Radio and Television Corporation (PRTVC) by soldiers in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Three reporters of th...
Uganda: Two journalists arrested
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Two Ugandan journalists with the Daily Monitor newspaper - Henry Ochieng, editor and Angelo Izama, a staff writer - were yesterday charged with criminal libel at the Makindye Chief Magistrates Court over an article the State claims defamed President ...
Ethiopia: Court jails editor whose paper challenged Meles Zenawi
2010-02-05, Issue 468
An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday in connection with a January 2008 column that criticized Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, according to local journalists....
Libya: Unblock websites - HRW
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Human Rights Watch has urged the Libyan authorities to stop blocking the internet sites. The country has blocked access to YouTube and at least seven independent websites claiming it was a disturbing step away from press freedom....
Global: Top Documentary Films
2010-01-27, Issue 467
Top Documentary Films offers direct or indirect access to hundreds of documentaries - many of them socially critical - with reviews from trusted sources. The content here is created with a passion for documentary films, the site is in open form and...
Zambia: Digital switch: MISA urges government to prevent 'information gap'
2010-01-28, Issue 467
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia Chapter has observed that Zambia is running out of time to prepare for the mandatory migration of broadcasting services from analogue to a digital platform....
North Africa: 'Waves of the Mediterranean' radio project unveiled in Tunis
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Regional radio professionals and an international organisation promoting cross-cultural dialogue joined together to launch a Mediterranean-wide radio station from Tunis on Tuesday (January 19th)....
Harry Chapin Media Awards
2010-01-22, Issue 466
The Harry Chapin Media Awards (HCMA) was created to encourage the media to tell the stories of hunger and economic poverty. The HCMAs honour print and electronic media for outstanding coverage of hunger and economic poverty and the underlying root ca...
Egypt: Bloggers arrested
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Freedom House condemns the arrest of 19 activists in Egypt - among them leading bloggers, political party representatives, and journalists - and demands their immediate release without harm....
Africa: Freedom in the world 2010
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Freedom House has published its “Freedom in the World 2010: Global Erosion of Freedom” Report. The Report divides up the world into three categories of Free, Partly Free, and Not Free. Accordingly, declines in liberty were registered in 40 countries ...
Eritrea: RSF asks UN to investigate the fate of imprisoned journalists
2010-01-22, Issue 466
On 11 January 2010, the third anniversary of Eritrean journalist Fessehaye "Joshua" Yohannes' death in detention, Reporters Without Borders wrote to Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading...
Zimbabwe: Journalist flees after death threat
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Freelance journalist Stanley Kwenda, who writes for the private weekly, The Zimbabwean, has fled the country after he said he received a telephone threat from a high-ranking police officer, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said quoting the ...
Egypt: Detained bloggers tell their tales
2010-01-22, Issue 466
More than 20 Egyptian bloggers, who were on their way to pay their respects to the families of the victims of the Coptic massacre, were arrested when their train arrived in the village of Naga Hammady in Upper Egypt. They were released shortly afterw...
Tunisia: IFJ condemns "sham" trial of journalist
2010-01-22, Issue 466
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the four year jail term handed down to Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous on 13 January by a court for his reporting on the demonstrations against unemployment and corruption in the min...
Africa: 2009 IFJ Africa press freedom report launched
2010-01-22, Issue 466
The Year 2009 can be considered as one of the worst years for press freedom in the African continent. Considering the year under review, 13 journalists were killed across the continent; 32 journalists imprisoned, a significant number of journalists a...
Zambia: Moves to undermine self-regulation condemned
2010-01-22, Issue 466
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African regional organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), is calling on the Zambian authorities to immediately end attacks on Zambian media as they work to establish self-regu...
Libya: Bloggers eye poverty, power and corruption
2010-01-22, Issue 466
This week, Libyan bloggers tackled sensitive issues ranging from poverty to corruption, while comparing how government supporters and the opposition differ on the meaning of key historical events....
Namibia: Public broadcaster DG quits over political interference
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Namibia's national broadcaster's Director-General (DG) Mathew Gowaseb has quit his job, becoming the third DG to leave the public broadcaster in one year. Media reports said that Gowaseb, who was appointed in acting capacity at the Namibia Broadcasti...
Zambia: FAJ condemns moves to undermine media self regulation
2010-01-15, Issue 465
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African regional organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), is calling on the Zambian authorities to immediately end attacks on Zambian media as they work to establish self-regu...
Mauritania: IFJ condemns arbitrary detention of journalist
2010-01-15, Issue 465
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the unlawful, arbitrary and unjustified detention of Hannevy Ould Dehah, Director of Taqadoumy website in Dar Nahim prison in Nouakchott, after he had served his term....
North Africa: Morocco launches first Amazigh TV channel
2010-01-15, Issue 465
An Amazigh-language TV channel first proposed three years ago finally hit Moroccan airwaves on January 6th, satisfying a long-awaited demand by a significant percentage of the country’s citizens....
Eritrea: UN asked to investigate the fate of journalists imprisoned
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Reporters Without Borders has written, on the third anniversary of Eritrean journalist Fessehaye “Joshua” Yohannes’ death in detention, to Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...
Chad: Court lifts sanctions against weekly La Voix
2010-01-15, Issue 465
A court in the capital N’Djamena has found the privately owned weekly La Voix “not guilty” of charges against it and lifted a provisional order for automatic seizure of all copies of the paper made on 3 December 2009. An appeal will be heard on 13 Ja...
Somaila: Somali journalists lauch their own union
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Somali prominent journalists in Mogadishu have for the first time officially launched a new Press Freedom Group.Somali Foreign Correspondents Association (SOFCA), after meeting at Nasahablod hotel in Mogadishu....
Global: 10th Annual Freedom of Expression Awards
Last call for nominations
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Index on Censorship is the UK’s leading organisation dedicated to the promotion of free expression worldwide. In March 2010, we will be holding our 10th Annual Freedom of Expression Awards and would like to invite you to submit nominations for the ca...
Somalia: Death, displacement, detention and violence perpetrated against media
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The 2009 was a year of darkness, death, displacement, detention and violence against journalists and the entire media fraternity in Somalia, according to the annual report unveiled by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ)....
Mauritania: IFJ condemns arbitrary detention of journalist
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the unlawful, arbitrary and unjustified detention of Hannevy Ould Dehah, Director of Taqadoumy website in Dar Nahim prison in Nouakchott, after he had served his term....
Global: 2009 leaves one of worst records for targeted killings of journalists - IFJ
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for more action from governments and the United Nations to protect media as it announced a grim total of 137 journalists and media personnel killed during 2009....
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