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BBC journalist Shaimaa Khalil freed after arrest in Egypt
Cairo bureau producer Khalil was arrested and held overnight after soldiers cleared protesters from Tahrir Square in Cairo
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 02/08/11BBC Afghanistan stringer killed in insurgent attack
Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, who also worked as reporter for Afghan news agency Pajhwok, was one of four killed in suicide bomb attack
Posted by Joel Gunter on 28/07/11Mexico crime reporter not killed over work, officials claim
Local authorities in Veracruz suggest the death of Notiver reporter Yolanda Ordaz is linked to organised crime and not journalism
Posted by Joel Gunter on 27/07/11St Bride's to host memorial service for Anton Hammerl
Public service will take place on 8 September at Fleet Street chapel
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/07/11BBC journalist released on bail in Tajikistan
Urunboy Usmonov, who was detained by Tajik authorities in June, is understood to have been released on bail and returned home
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14/07/11Reuters correspondent expelled from Libya
UK correspondent Nick Carey is asked to leave the country two day before his visa is due to expire
Posted by Joel Gunter on 30/06/11French journalists released after 18 month-captivity in Afghanistan
Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier were captured in December 2009
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30/06/11#jpod in depth: A look at threats to press freedom around the world
This week's featured podcast looks at issues facing local and foreign journalists in countries across the world, reflecting on the impact of the Arab Spring and ongoing conflicts
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 24/06/11Bastiat Prize fund increases to £43,000
This year's journalism prize launched with an increased prize fund of $70,000 (£43,000) as it celebrates its 10th anniversary
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21/06/11BBC reiterates appeal for release of detained journalist
Broadcaster has called for the release of reporter Urunboy Usmonov, who was detained by security services in Tajikistan more than a week ago
Posted by Joel Gunter on 20/06/11Living in limbo: Almost 70 journalists exiled in past year, says CPJ
The annual report claims Iran and Cuba are the most 'repressive nations' with each sending 18 journalists into exile
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 20/06/11BBC demands release of journalist detained in Tajikistan
Reports emerged yesterday that Urunboy Usmonov had been reported missing in Tajikistan by his family on Monday
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 16/06/11Journalists deaths in Pakistan prompt calls for urgent safety measures
According to reports, one journalist was killed and five reporters injured at the weekend in a double bombing in Peshawar
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14/06/11BBC calls for foreign journalists to be allowed into Syria after minster's comments
On BBC Radio 4's Today programme head of Syrian state television Reem Haddad agreed with the BBC's calls for foreign journalists to be let into the country
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 07/06/11Egyptian and Lebanese journalists win Samir Kassir press freedom awards
Lebanese journalist Habib Battah who took second prize in the European Union award's first year, was one of the winners
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 03/06/11Anna Politkovskaya murder suspect formally charged
Man arrested in Chechnya has been formally charged with the murder of Russian campaigning investigative journalist
Posted by Joel Gunter on 02/06/11Iraq tops impunity index for fourth time over unsolved journalist killings
Committee to Protect Journalists ranks country top again after none of the 92 murders recorded in the past decade have been solved
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 01/06/11Libyan authorities will help find Hammerl's body, pledges Gaddafi
In a statement today Jacob Zuma claimed he had 'encouraging' talks with Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli about the death of photographer Anton Hammerl
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 31/05/11Media granted new freedoms in court of protection case
Press given permission to report on proceedings prior to judgement in case of Steven Neary, who was detained in care by his local authority for a year
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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'
WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms
Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's
The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011Index: Take action to end impunity
This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated
The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim
Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]
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Twentieth journalist killed in Latin America this year
Investigative TV reporter José Agustín Silvestre was killed yesterday after being kidnapped outside his home, according to local reports
Posted by Joel Gunter on 03/08/11