Radio journalist Johnny Alberto Salazar has been found guilty of libelling a lawyer, he is the first journalist to be jailed for defamation in the Dominican Republic. Salazar made comments on his radio station about local murders and said that...
Azerbaijani newspapers Yeni Musavat and Azadliq were fined 2000 manats (1,634 GBP) this week, they had been accused of damaging businessman Anar Mammadovov's honour and business image. Mammadov, the son of Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov, appealed...
Igor Vinyavsky, editor of the Almaty-based independent weekly Vzglyad, was detained on Monday evening in an ongoing crackdown by Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB) on critical media and opposition activists. Two groups of KNB agents...
Blogger and media lawyer David Allen Green has praised social media at the Leveson Inquiry today. Green, legal commentator at the New Statesman, argued that bloggers and Twitter users should not be viewed as "rogues", adding that social media users...
Investigative reporter Mazher Mahmood was recalled to the Leveson Inquiry today and quizzed over the reasons for his 1989 departure from the Sunday Times. Mahmood, also known as the Fake Sheikh for the disguise he wears while investigating, told...
Marta Cooper: Jefferies coverage a “watershed” for UK media, Mirror reporter tells Leveson
Index on Censorship and English PEN championed the cause of libel reform at the Leveson Inquiry this morning. Index CEO John Kampfner and English PEN director Jonathan Heawood stressed that access to justice needed to be improved, arguing that the...
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Ofcom has revoked the UK licence of Iranian broadcaster Press TV. In December Press TV was fined £100,000 for broadcasting a 2009 interview with journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari, who was then being held in Evin Prison. Press TV has failed to...
Dissident Wilmar Villar Mendoza, has died in a hospital in eastern Cuba following a 56-day hunger strike. Villar launched his strike shortly after his November arrest, after which he was put on trial and sentenced to four years in prison for crimes...