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Blogger must pay $60,000 in damages
A Minnesota county court has found that a post written on the "Adventures of Johnny Northside" blog led to community official Jerry Moore being fired from the University of Minnesota. Blogger John Hoff must pay Moore $60,000 in damages, which...
Clinton aide resigns after criticising treatment of Bradley Manning
P J Crowley has stepped down from his position as chief spokesman of the US State Department after condemning the Pentagon's treatment of Private Bradley Manning. The US soldier is accused of providing documents to Wikileaks. He is currently...
Protesters in Istanbul demand journalists’ release
Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Istanbul on Sunday to protest against the imprisonment of journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener. The reporters were detained as part of an official crackdown over the alleged Ergenekon plot. The...
Azerbaijani police detain opposition protesters
Fifty protesters were arrested whilst taking part in anti-government demonstrations in central Baku on Saturday. The protests in Fountain Square attracted 200 members of the opposition Musavat party, but they were soon dispersed by the police. The...
Mexican authorities reopen investigation into Oaxaca deaths
Mexican prosecutors have decided to reopen the investigation into 21 deaths during protests against the Oaxaca state government in 2006. Amongst the dead was the American independent journalist Bradley Will, who was killed whilst filming a clash...
Brazilian police recapture journalist’s killer
Sao Paolo police have recaptured Wilson de Moraes da Silva, who was convicted of the murder of journalist Ivandel Godinho Junior. The reporter was kidnapped in 2003, and killed three days later. Silva had served three years of his 36 year sentence...
El Salvador: 11 jailed for filmmaker’s murder
A court in El Salvador has convicted 11 people for the 2009 murder of French journalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda. Two gang leaders were sentenced to 30 years in prison. Two other leaders have been jailed for 20 years, whilst the remaining...
Changes to Hungarian media law adopted
The agreed changes to Hungary's controversial media law were adopted on Monday. These alterations were welcomed by the Hungarian media, but have been subsequently dismissed as merely "cosmetic" by critics. Several of the more controversial...
Investigative journalist wins damages in libel case against NUJ
Suzanne Breen has been awarded damages in her libel case against the National Union of Journalists. She brought an action for defamation against the NUJ when the union's magazine published a member's letter concerning her stance on protecting...
Remaining ‘Black Spring’ journalist released in Cuba
Cuban reporter Pedro Arguelles Moran has been released from prison on parole. He is the last of the journalists jailed during the 2003 "Black Spring" crackdown to be freed. In April 2003 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Law 88, for...
Government officials unnamed in Gongadze murder case
A Ukrainian court of appeal has prohibited any further attempts to identify the senior government officials alleged to be behind online journalist Georgiy Gongadze's murder in 2000. The charge was lowered from "commissioned murder" to "murder on...