World Watch Archive
Afghanistan
- Apr. 2008: Student sentenced to death for supposedly distribu
- Apr. 2008: Journalist continues to be held at US Air Force ba
- Apr. 2007: Journalists sign petition to bring colleague home
- Apr. 2007: Taliban behead Afghan reporter
- Mar. 2007: U.S. military deleted photos after bombing
- Oct. 2006: Two German journalists are murdered in Afghanistan
Argentina
- Nov. 2007: Media bias tied to advertising dollar
Armenia
- Apr. 2008: Armenia in state of crisis over recent elections
- Sep. 2007: Opposition Journalist Beaten
Australia
Azerbaijan
- Nov. 2008: Imprisoned poet denied medical treatment
- Apr. 2008: Journalist attacked in Baku
- Nov. 2007: Azeri Editor Sentenced
- Nov. 2007: Harassment Continues for Journalist and Family
- Oct. 2007: Persecution of reporter continues
- Oct. 2007: Azeri Reporter Imprisoned
- Oct. 2007: Court Verdict Executors Beat Reporter
- Jun. 2007: Permit will be required for Internet broadcasting
- Jun. 2007: Imprisoned journalist's health ignored
- Jun. 2007: Editor sentenced; Reporter attacked, beaten
- Oct. 2006: Editor of newspaper arrested on four charges
Bahrain
- Nov. 2007: "The Kingdom" banned in Bahrain
- Nov. 2007: Journalists conviced of smear and defamation.
Bangladesh
- Apr. 2008: Draft of FOI Act in parliament
- Nov. 2007: Journalist beaten while in custody
- Oct. 2007: Cartoon causes arrest
- Jun. 2007: Daily Star reporter released on bail
- Mar. 2007: New regulations to ban political coverage
- Oct. 2006: English-language paper attacked by radical group
Belarus
- Apr. 2008: Independent Belarusian journalists face government
- Apr. 2008: Belarussian journalist jailed and then released ov
- Oct. 2007: Journalists Arrested in Belarus due to Protest
Brazil
- Nov. 2008: Newspaper distribution blocked
- Jul. 2007: Paraguayan radio journalist discovered alive
Brussels
- Oct. 2007: E.U debating access law
Burma
- Feb. 2008: Government hikes satellite fees, suspends newspape
- Oct. 2007: Burmese government cracks down on information flow
- Sep. 2007: Burmese military authorities use questionable meth
Canada
- Oct. 2007: Canadian FOI requests fall short
- Jun. 2007: Daily Star reporter released on bail
Central African Republic
Chad
- Nov. 2007: Photographer and aid workers held
China
- Apr. 2008: China frees two journalists but jails another
- Nov. 2007: Detained journalist beaten in prison
- Oct. 2007: Report: China Tightening Censorship on the Interne
- Sep. 2007: China frees jailed New York Times researcher
- Jul. 2007: China bans influential NGO newsletter
- Jul. 2007: Yahoo! criticizes repression of Internet users
- Jul. 2007: Seven charged in murder of journalist
- Feb. 2007: Editor freed from prison; paper's president r
Colombia
- Oct. 2007: Politics loses place on community radio
- Jun. 2007: Suspects confess motive in journalist's death
Croatia
- Apr. 2008: On February 13, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Nov. 2007: Journalist arrested because of blog
Cuba
- Apr. 2008: Cuban Foreign Minister signs covenant protecting f
- Jul. 2007: Reporter sentenced to four years
- Feb. 2007: Reporter arrested after speaking out
Cyprus
- Nov. 2007: Protesters gather outside newspaper office
Democratic Republic of Congo
- Dec. 2008: Journalist acquitted after 41-day imprisonment
- Dec. 2008: Kidnapped journalist released
- Dec. 2008: Journalist, presumed dead, found alive
- Nov. 2007: Information minister bans news organizations
- Nov. 2007: Higher-ed minister orders guards to beat journalis
Denmark
Dominican Republic
- Mar. 2007: Drug traffickers threaten journalist
Dubai
- Oct. 2007: Journalists released on bail
East Africa
East Timor
- Jun. 2007: Political militants break photographer's arm
Egypt
- Dec. 2008: Doctored photo brings heavy fine
- Dec. 2008: Coverage of court cases forbidden
- Oct. 2008: Editor pardoned
- Sep. 2008: Authorities cracking down on satellite television
- Sep. 2007: Editor interrogated for questioning President'
- Sep. 2007: Egyptian editors arrested for slander
- Feb. 2007: Blogger receives four-year prison sentence
England
- Dec. 2008: Newspaper made to pay damages to athlete
- Jun. 2007: BBC journalist missing from Gaza since March 12
- Jun. 2007: Alan Johnston still alive according to Palestinian
- Jun. 2007: BBC to archive millions of hours of content
- Mar. 2007: Freedom of Information under attack in England
- Feb. 2007: Death of journalist in Iraq under investigation
- Oct. 2006: Landmark victory for investigative journalism
Eritrea
- Oct. 2007: Six years of oppression
- Jul. 2007: Eritrea Television journalist dies in bid to flee
Ethiopia
- Dec. 2008: Outspoken editor beaten unconcious
- Nov. 2008: Newspaper editor jailed for misprint
Fiji
- Feb. 2007: Soldiers attack photojournalist
France
- Dec. 2008: Journalist pressured to reveal sources
- Jul. 2008: Le Monde staff strikes over job cuts
- Apr. 2008: Le Monde annouces job cuts
- Apr. 2008: Public TV and radio stations go on strike, Preside
- Apr. 2008: President Sarkozy sets lawsuit precedent
- Oct. 2007: Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Inde
- Jul. 2007: Generic journalism curricula issued
- Jun. 2007: Media appeal for release of BBC reporter
Gambia
- Apr. 2008: Reporter is still detained Gambia
- Jul. 2007: Intelligence agency arrests journalist
- Jul. 2007: Charges filed against arrested journalist
Germany
- Oct. 2008: Amendments threaten journalists' rights
Greece
- Jul. 2007: Media law raises concerns
Guatemala
- Mar. 2007: Correspondent attacked
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
- Oct. 2007: Possible reform of defamation laws
India
- Apr. 2007: Mizzima News Agency re-opened
Indonesia
- Jul. 2008: New guidelines to protect journalists
Iran
- Apr. 2008: Radio Farda journalist sentenced for “disseminatin
- Oct. 2007: Activist arrested yet again
- Oct. 2007: Website shut down by court
- Jul. 2007: Ban lifted on Web site that criticized Ahmadinejad
Iraq
- Apr. 2008: CBS journalist freed in Basra
- Apr. 2008: AP photographer released from U.S. custody
- Apr. 2008: Two CBS journalists abducted in Basra
- Apr. 2008: Head of Iraq’s journalist union killed
- Oct. 2007: Two more journalists murdered in Iraq
- Oct. 2007: Martial Arts for journalists working in Iraq
- Jul. 2007: Journalists' death toll increases
Ireland
- Dec. 2008: Presses stopped
- Apr. 2008: Four BBC journalists were arrested in County Doneg
Israel
- Dec. 2008: Army closes investigation into death of cameraman
- Apr. 2008: Reuters Cameraman Killed in Gaza
- Apr. 2008: The Hamas government’s internal security services
Italy
- Dec. 2008: Television crew harassed
- Oct. 2008: Mafia plan hit on journalist
- Sep. 2007: Attempt to kill Italian journalist fails
Japan
- Apr. 2008: Lawsuit to restore journalists' innoncence
Kenya
- Oct. 2008: Authorities arrest and hold former journalist
- Jul. 2007: Proposed media bill a threat to journalism
Kyrgystan
- Apr. 2008: Kyrgyz authorities shut down Saipov murder investi
- Apr. 2007: Reporter assaulted with brass knuckles
- Apr. 2007: Two TV journalists attacked in March
Lebanon
Malaysia
- Oct. 2008: Two reporters, lawmaker arrested and held
- Oct. 2008: Blogger arrested for inciting the public
- Jul. 2008: Malay blogger charged with sedition
- Apr. 2008: Journalist arrested for asking too many questions
- Sep. 2007: Malaysian government attempts to silence Internet
- Apr. 2007: Government warns media against using blogs
- Apr. 2007: Political party members allegedly assault photogs
- Feb. 2007: New report on government's freedom of informa
- Jan. 2007: Newspaper reporters bring defamation suits against
Mexico
- Apr. 2008: Photographer Gabriel Huge Córdoba was detained and
- Oct. 2007: Newspaper delivery workers murdered
- Jul. 2007: No hope of finding missing journalists alive
- Apr. 2007: President eliminates prison sentences for libel
Moldova
- Oct. 2007: TVR - Another Act of Moldovan Censorship
Morocco
- Dec. 2008: Magazine’s international edition banned
- Feb. 2007: Magazines brought to court for criticizing king
Myanmar
- Dec. 2008: Court hands down lengthy sentences for writers
- Oct. 2008: Newspaper Web sites hacked
- Apr. 2008: Government hikes satellite fees, suspends newspape
- Apr. 2008: Two journalists arrested
Nepal
- Apr. 2008: Media must follow election code of conduct
- Apr. 2008: Eastern presses stalled
- Feb. 2008: Journalist loses hand in attack over controversial
- Oct. 2007: Journalist abducted in Nepal
- Oct. 2007: Journalist’s death raises suspicions
- Oct. 2007: Unions attack news organization
- Oct. 2007: Journalist abducted in Nepal
Nicaragua
- Dec. 2008: Prominent journalist under investigation
Niger
- Oct. 2007: Journalist held without reason given
- Sep. 2007: Live debates on regional rebellion banned
- Oct. 2006: Director, editor handed 18 month prison sentences
Nigeria
- Feb. 2008: Nigeria sends journalist to prison
Pakistan
- Jul. 2008: Arrest made in murder of journalist
- Apr. 2008: Pakistani journalist killed
- Apr. 2008: Pakistan on way to lifting media restrictions on i
- Apr. 2008: Journalists in Pakistan face bodily harm
- Oct. 2007: Journalist Protest Incites Police Brutality
- Jul. 2007: Pakistani journalist killed in mosque clashes
- Jul. 2007: Journalist murdered in Sindh province
- Apr. 2007: Regulatory body threatens independent TV station
- Apr. 2007: Pakistani reporter's family killed
Palestinian National Authority
- Sep. 2008: Gaza radio station back on the air
- Sep. 2007: Palestinian Executive Force interrogates journalis
- Jul. 2007: Johnston released in Gaza
Panama
- Mar. 2007: Journalists protest reforms in Panama City
Peru
- Oct. 2007: Journalists convicted of criminal defamation
- Oct. 2007: Military leaders sentenced in journalist’s 1988 mu
- Oct. 2007: Guards fire on journalists
Philippines
- Dec. 2008: Suspects in journalist's death missing
- Oct. 2008: Journalists injured in crossfire
- Oct. 2007: Broadcaster injured in attack
- Jul. 2007: New anti-terror law threatens journalists
- Apr. 2007: Radio journalist fears retaliation in jail
Poland
Russia
- Dec. 2008: Politkovskaya trial closed to public
- Oct. 2008: Russian channel still broadcasting despite threats
- Oct. 2008: Politkovskaya murder still unsolved
- Jul. 2008: Politkovskaya’s murderer charged
- Apr. 2008: Two Russian journalists killed
- Apr. 2008: Slandering the President is now an "extremist
- Apr. 2008: Police raid two Russian newspapers for counterfeit
- Apr. 2008: Police in Russia's Ingushetia Region Harm Jou
- Apr. 2008: Russian Union of Journalists in jeopardy
- Oct. 2007: Politkovskaya Suspects Charged
- Oct. 2007: Newspaper under threat for insulting Putin
- Sep. 2007: New Suspect in Politkovskaya Murder
- Jul. 2007: Internews leaves Russia
- Jul. 2007: Police close down Internews Russia
- Jul. 2007: Bill may effect freedom of speech
- Jul. 2007: Russia rules out murder in journalist's death
- Apr. 2007: Russian journalists harassed covering elections
- Apr. 2007: Klebnikov trial postponed, defendant missing
- Apr. 2007: Russian editor faces up to 5 years in prison
- Mar. 2007: Second Klebnikov murder trial begins Friday
- Mar. 2007: After journalist's death, questions remain
- Feb. 2007: Chechen police investigated in journalist death
- Feb. 2007: Putin promises to protect press in Russia
- Feb. 2007: Reporter charged with insulting official online
- Feb. 2007: Newspaper editor and founder jailed since Jan. 21
- Feb. 2007: Police search IWPR offices in the North Caucasus
- Oct. 2006: Newspaper raided and harassed
Rwanda
- Dec. 2008: Journalist acquitted, 14 years later
Saudi Arabia
- Jul. 2008: Blogger released from jail
- Apr. 2008: Saudi cleric condemns two of the country's jo
Scotland
- Feb. 2007: Editor, reporter prosecuted for contempt
Senegal
- Apr. 2008: Reporter attacked covering protest
Sierra Leone
- Jul. 2007: Court sets high bail for editor's release
Singapore
Somalia
- Oct. 2007: Radio Station bombed
- Sep. 2007: Editors targeted for coverage
- Jul. 2007: Somaliland TV reporter held for three days
- Mar. 2007: Radio journalist, union activist murdered
- Mar. 2007: Four journalists sentenced despite protective law
South Korea
- Apr. 2008: New ‘press-friendly’ policy proposed
Spain
- Dec. 2008: Two journalists arrested during political rally
- Oct. 2007: Insulting the crown still a crime
- Feb. 2007: Warrant issued for U.S. soldiers
Sri Lanka
- Dec. 2008: Sri Lankan press in peril, IPFM finds
- Dec. 2008: Landmark journalists' rights trial begins
- Oct. 2008: Newspaper refuses to change inflammatory caption
- Oct. 2007: Sri Lankan Reporter interrogated for his sources
- Jul. 2007: Court sets high bail for editor's releasel
- Mar. 2007: Journalists abducted in capital
- Feb. 2007: Press limited by ink shortage
Sudan
- Oct. 2008: Daily English-language paper allowed to resume
- Oct. 2008: Government lifts publication ban, jails editor
- Apr. 2008: Two Sudanese editors were detained Feb. 18 over pu
Sweden
- Mar. 2007: Unaccredited photographer arrested
- Feb. 2007: Worlds oldest newspaper now online only
Switzerland
Syria
- Oct. 2007: Syrian Journalist held in detention
- Sep. 2007: Syrian Cyber-dissident released
Taiwan
- Apr. 2008: Journalists want U.N. press credentials
Tajikistan
- Oct. 2007: New Laws could Restrict Speech
Thailand
- Feb. 2008: Public television comes to Thailand
- Jul. 2007: Government continues to suppress freedom of speech
- Mar. 2007: Only independent station shuts down
Tunisia
- Dec. 2008: Television reporter in hiding
- Dec. 2008: Radio broadcaster beaten and arrested
- Oct. 2008: Online magazine victim of cyber attack
- Oct. 2007: Journalist manhandled by police
- Mar. 2007: French media censored by authorities
Turkey
- Apr. 2008: Two journalists are facing investigation for caric
- Oct. 2007: Acquitted of one charge, facing three more
- Sep. 2007: Turkish Court moves to block YouTube
- Feb. 2007: New suspects arrested for journalist's death
- Jan. 2007: Journalist killed after challenging Turkish histor
Turkmenistan
- Oct. 2007: New Comment Feature Removed
United Kingdom
- Oct. 2007: BBC Arabic TV to operate 24 hours a day
United States
- Dec. 2008: Cuban reporters permitted to return home
- Apr. 2008: USA Today journalist appeal has been upheld
- Oct. 2007: Anchor sues for millions
- Jul. 2007: Foundation offers prize for preventive journalism
- Jul. 2007: Ex-media mogul Conrad Black convicted
- Jul. 2007: Zell makes a deal
- Jun. 2007: Wolf finally released
- Feb. 2007: Army drops subpoena charges against journalists
- Feb. 2007: Reporter breaks record for longest time in jail
- Oct. 2006: Blogger freed after 30 days in jail
- Oct. 2006: CPJ reports on journalist held in Guantanamo
Uzbekistan
- Oct. 2008: Journalist receives 10-year prison sentence
- Feb. 2007: Journalist charged with illegal literature
Venezuela
- Apr. 2008: Police in Ospino shot at three Venezuelan journali
- Feb. 2007: Paper fined for piece about Chavez's daughter
Vietnam
- Apr. 2008: Journalist and activist released from prison
Yemen
- Apr. 2008: News sites blocked by government
- Sep. 2007: Former editor of online magazine kidnapped and bea
Zimbabwe
- Apr. 2008: New York Times correspondent was detained
- Oct. 2007: Journalists marked for surveillance
- Oct. 2007: Journalist and two actors arrested during play
- Oct. 2006: Future of the Internet is unclear