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» 06.01.2010 - CPJ demands release of detained editor
» 04.01.2010 - Court to rule on fate of local paper Thursday
» 17.12.2009 - Media rights group condemns arrest of media players
» 17.12.2009 - Sweden minister speaks on freedom of expression in Ethiopia
» 09.12.2009 - Arab states slammed for using excessive force
» 08.12.2009 - RSF condemns closure of newspaper in Ethiopia
» 27.11.2009 - Guinea's independent press group threatened by military
» 17.11.2009 - Media warns legislators against enacting anti-media law
» 21.10.2009 - Eritrea is the bottom last in Press Freedom Index 2009
» 16.10.2009 - Chad expels Cameroon editor
» 06.10.2009 - UNESCO chief condemns killing of Nigerian editor
» 29.09.2009 - UN hails Sudanese order to lift censorship
» 25.09.2009 - Ugandan editors charged with sedition
» 25.09.2009 - Nigerien editor face criminal libel charge
» 31.08.2009 - RSF relieved Cardoso’s murderer is back behind bars
» 26.08.2009 - Four Uganda’s journalists face criminal charges
» 25.08.2009 - Crackdown on independent media ahead of election
» 24.08.2009 - JED calls for investigation of journalist's death
» 11.08.2009 - Union denounce conviction of journalists
» 05.08.2009 - IFJ condemns seizure of magazines in Morocco
» 31.07.2009 - Positive reforms as Zim lifts media restrictions
» 24.07.2009 - CPJ worried on new anti-terror legislation
» 21.07.2009 - RSF denounces journalists’ harassment in Congo
» 15.07.2009 - CPJ denounces death threats on journalist
» 14.07.2009 - Foreign journalists abducted in Somalia
» 09.07.2009 - Political tension hampers media freedom
» 08.07.2009 - CPJ calls on Gambia to end media hostilities
» 18.06.2009 - Opposition leader calls for the release of journos
» 09.06.2009 - CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Somalia
» 02.06.2009 - US senators petition Gambia in missing journalist's case
» 27.05.2009 - Eritrea rejects release of Swedish journalist
» 14.05.2009 - Mauritania editor narrowly escapes death
» 14.05.2009 - Tanzanian newspaper faces closure from harsh court decision
» 14.05.2009 - Kenya to dispel repressive clause in media law
» 13.05.2009 - Tunisian president urged to stop bullying the media
» 12.05.2009 - Broadcasting commission suspends licence of private radio station
» 12.05.2009 - Authorities ready for BBC suspension talks
» 11.05.2009 - RSF condemns suspension of local station in DRC
» 27.04.2009 - Rwanda suspends BBC broadcast for being bias
» 24.04.2009 - ECOWAS asked to intervene on the missing journalist case
» 24.04.2009 - HRW calls for drastic changes on draft Sudanese press law
» 22.04.2009 - Arabic network condemns sentencing of journalist
» 21.04.2009 - Bouteflika told to redress rights violations in Algeria
» 15.04.2009 - Armed men threaten to kill journalist in DRC
» 14.04.2009 - Nine hanged for editor’s murder
» 23.03.2009 - Two African states among the highest with impunity
» 04.03.2009 - Egyptian internet activists freed
» 02.03.2009 - Ethiopian press ordered to re-register
» 25.02.2009 - Appeal court upholds editor’s sentence
» 03.02.2009 - Body of murdered journalist found in forest
» 02.02.2009 - Court overturns jail terms for 4 editors
» 28.01.2009 - Newspaper stands empty as publishers show solidarity to suspended paper
» 16.01.2009 - Journalists organisation criticises new media law
» 14.01.2009 - Journalist and activists released on bail
» 12.01.2009 - RSF condemns sentencing of Cameroonian editor
» 25.12.2008 - Guinean media paralysed after coup
» 16.12.2008 - Police arrest 11 journalists protesting media bill
» 16.12.2008 - RSF criticises continuing impunity in Gambia
» 04.12.2008 - Bail application for Senegalese editor rejected
» 28.11.2008 - Liberian judiciary wrestle media freedom
» 25.11.2008 - CPJ condemns murder of journalist in DRC
» 21.11.2008 - Burkina Faso petition enjoys success
» 18.11.2008 - Egyptian rights organisation rejects media blockade in trial
» 13.11.2008 - Tunisian reporter charged for revealing labour conflict
» 04.11.2008 - Editor jailed for misidentification of a judge
» 03.11.2008 - Morocco bans French magazine
» 28.10.2008 - IFJ condemns conviction of Algerian journalist
» 22.10.2008 - Rwandan reporter released after 14 years detention
» 17.10.2008 - Nigerian journalist slained near his home
» 07.10.2008 - Niger radio director freed after 384 days
» 02.10.2008 - Contempt proceedings against local paper to start
» 30.09.2008 - Rights activists condemn Egyptian editor conviction
» 25.09.2008 - Zambia calls off live radio phone-in programmes
» 24.09.2008 - Tunisia accused of violating journalists rights
» 22.09.2008 - SA cartoonist under fire again
» 19.09.2008 - IFJ request Algeria to respect journalist right
» 19.09.2008 - Moroccan blogger freed
» 17.09.2008 - Swaziland frees airwaves
» 17.09.2008 - Nigeria TV station shut down
» 15.09.2008 - Publisher jailed for 3 years
» 10.09.2008 - US filmmaker released in Nigeria
» 10.09.2008 - Moroccan blogger jailed
» 08.09.2008 - Kidnappers of two journos demand $2.5 ransom
» 05.09.2008 - CPJ demands release of journalist and translator
» 03.09.2008 - Journalist and media worker detained in Nigeria
» 03.09.2008 - Police arrest 9 suspects for newspaper raids
» 02.09.2008 - Press muzzled ahead of Mswati media brief
» 02.09.2008 - Sudan suspends two English newspapers
» 29.08.2008 - Senegal's anti-press minister fired
» 26.08.2008 - UNESCO Condemns assassination of Nigerian Journalist
» 19.08.2008 - Gambian journalist found guilty of sedition
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