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Guinea: BBC and AFP reporters go into hiding
Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo, BBC correspondent, are reported...
Russian journalist fears high-level death threat
Alexander Podrabinek has been driven into hiding after he wrote an article critical of defenders of the Soviet legacy.
Maria Eismont reports
Guinea: protesters killed
Dozens of protesters were shot dead in a crowded football stadium by Guinean security forces at a demonstration against the country’s military...
Berlusconi: new attack on media
Newspapers linked to Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi have launched an attack on state broadcaster RAI, telling readers not to pay their television licence fee. The call is part of a long-running assault on media critical of the governing party and Berlusconi’s business empire.
Download Index on Censorship’s report on political interference in Italian media here
Civil liberties suspended in Honduras
Interim leaders in Honduras suspended civil liberties on 27 September. Measures can now be taken to break up "unauthorised" public meetings, arrest...
Russian reporter goes into hiding
Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article...
Uphill struggle for Belarus journalists
Freedom of expression groups joined forces this month to investigate the obstacles facing independent media in Belarus; censorship made possible by the combination of a number of blunt-edged tools into a deceptively sophisticated system of media control. Rohan Jayasekera comments from Minsk.
Bahrain: government orders over 1,000 websites blocked
On 23 September, the government has announced plans to block 1040 websites, referring to a resolution which states that all telecommunications...
Press restricted in Honduras
Censorship on both national and international press in Honduras has increased since the return of Manuel Zelaya to the capital Tegucigalpa on 21...