Six bloggers and three journalists were charged with terrorism July 17, following their arrest and imprisonment in April. While one of the bloggers was charged in absentia, the rest appeared in an Addis Ababa court,…
The British government expressed "serious concerns" about press freedom in Hong Kong in its recent six-month report. Presented to parliament by Foreign Secretary William Hague, the findings noted that even though people in Hong Kong…
By Lexie Cartee Yemen expelled a prominent U.S. foreign correspondent from the country and barred entry to another in recent days, citing immigration issues. On May 5, Adam Baron received a phone call saying there…
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, more than a dozen journalists were harassed by rock-throwing police while covering demonstrations in India’s disputed Kashmir region, local news reported. The reporters were attempting to cover…
An appeals court in Yemen has upheld a one-year jail sentence for a journalist charged with posting false information on his Facebook page linking a local government official to corruption. A court in Al-Baydha upheld…
A Vietnamese blogger has been sentenced to two years in prison for publishing posts critical of the country’s Communist government. Truong Duy Nhat was sentenced March 4 under an indictment that said his posts “were…
A Brazilian journalist and television director was shot and killed Feb. 27 in the city of Teixeira de Freitas, about 550 miles (900 km) north of Rio de Janeiro. Geolino Lopes Xavier, 44, an anchor…
A Vietnamese appellate court rejected an appeal by prominent dissident lawyer, human rights activist and blogger Feb. 18. Le Quoc Quan, 41, was sentenced in October 2013 to 30 months in prison and 1.2 billion…
A Canadian journalist and filmmaker who was reporting about atrocities under the former Khmer Rouge government has gone missing in Cambodia. Dave Walker, a Canadian freelance journalist and film producer who lived in Cambodia, disappeared…
