Source: UNESCOPRESS The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, awarded the prestigious 2015 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to imprisoned Syrian journalist and human rights activist Mazen Darwish on Sunday...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | May 6, 2015 | International Director's Column |
It’s a happy week for the people of Latvia. They are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their independence from the Soviet Union, which was declared on 4 May 1990. That date signalled the lifting of decades of Soviet-style...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jan 9, 2015 | International Director's Column |
President Hollande of France called them “heroes” because they championed freedom. Fellow journalists and great crowds of citizens across Europe came out to pay tribute to the Charlie Hebdo journalists whose work...
Read MoreBy Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Khadija Ismayilova, a prominent investigative journalist who contributes to RFE/RL’sAzerbaijani Service, has been sentenced by a court in Baku to two months of pretrial detention on...
Read MoreBy MDLI (Media Legal Defence Initiative) In its first judgment on free speech, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled that imprisonment for defamation violates the right to freedom of expression while criminal...
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