Council of Europe launches Internet platform for safety of journalists
Source: Council of Europe The Council of Europe is launching today –in co-operation with five partner organisations– an Internet platform aimed at protecting journalism and promoting the safety of journalists. Via the platform, the partner organisations –Article 19,...
Syrian press freedom champion Mazen Darwish wins World Press Freedom Prize 2015
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 evening. The award ceremony took place at...
Azerbaijan Jails Khadija Ismayilova
By 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 charges of causing a man to attempt suicide. RFE/RL...
African Court delivers landmark ruling on criminal libel
By 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 defamation laws should only be used in...
Egypt decree could lead to release of jailed Australian Al-Jazeera journalist
By Patrick Kingsley in Cairo The Guardian, Thursday 13 November Jailed al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste could be returned to Australia before the end of his prison sentence in Egypt, after the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, issued a decree allowing the...