Free Press Watch Archive by Country
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Afghanistan
- Sep 2011: BBC journalist killed in Afghanistan
- Sep 2010: Prominent television journalist stabbed to death in Kabul
- Apr 2010: France 3 hostages held by Taliban face death if demands not met
- Mar 2010: Government bans live coverage of attacks
- Feb 2010: Taliban releases video of two kidnapped French journalists
- Sep 2009: Imprisoned reporter pardoned, released
- Apr 2008: Student sentenced to death for supposedly distributing a 'blasphemous' anti-Islamic article
- Apr 2008: Journalist continues to be held at US Air Force base in Afghanistan
- Apr 2007: Journalists sign petition to bring colleague home
- Apr 2007: Taliban behead Afghan reporter
- Mar 2007: U.S. military deleted photos after bombing
- Oct 2006: Two German journalists are murdered in Afghanistan
Albania
- Nov 2009: Editor beaten
Algeria
- May 2009: Moroccan journalist arrested
Angola
Argentina
- Nov 2011: Justice served for a journalist murdered 35 years ago
- Nov 2009: Government ends prison terms for defamation
- Sep 2009: Lower house passes media bill
- Apr 2009: Harassment of journalists increasing
- Nov 2007: Media bias tied to advertising dollar
Armenia
- May 2012: Journalists have cause for cautious celebration in 2012
- Apr 2008: Armenia in state of crisis over recent elections
- Sep 2007: Opposition Journalist Beaten
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
- Apr 2011: Two opposition newspaper reporters assaulted
- Feb 2011: Wrongly imprisoned journalist still not released, fears for safety
- May 2010: European Court of Human Rights Orders Immediate Release of Azeri Journalist
- Nov 2008: Imprisoned poet denied medical treatment
- Apr 2008: Journalist attacked in Baku
- Nov 2007: Azeri Editor Sentenced
- Nov 2007: Harassment Continues for Journalist and Family
- Oct 2007: Persecution of reporter continues
- Oct 2007: Azeri Reporter Imprisoned
- Oct 2007: Court Verdict Executors Beat Reporter
- Jun 2007: Permit will be required for Internet broadcasting
- Jun 2007: Imprisoned journalist's health ignored
- Jun 2007: Editor sentenced; Reporter attacked, beaten
- Oct 2006: Editor of newspaper arrested on four charges
Bahrain
- May 2011: Independent daily takes another hit
- Apr 2011: Two journalists die during police custody
- Feb 2011: Journalists take fire in Bahrain demonstrations
- May 2010: Government bans Blackberry news alerts
- Apr 2009: Web sites critical of government blocked
- Nov 2007: "The Kingdom" banned in Bahrain
- Nov 2007: Journalists conviced of smear and defamation.
Bangladesh
- Feb 2012: Prominent journalist couple stabbed to death
- Sep 2010: Editor and reporter of opposition-linked newspaper sentenced
- Mar 2009: IPI calls for change in treatment of journalists
- Apr 2008: Draft of FOI Act in parliament
- Nov 2007: Journalist beaten while in custody
- Oct 2007: Cartoon causes arrest
- Jun 2007: Daily Star reporter released on bail
- Mar 2007: New regulations to ban political coverage
- Oct 2006: English-language paper attacked by radical group
Belarus
- Mar 2012: Belarus and European Union strain ties over human rights abuses
- Apr 2011: Journalist couple still detained
- Apr 2011: No room for dissent
- Jan 2011: Newspaper correspondent and husband in police custody
- Apr 2008: Independent Belarusian journalists face government
- Apr 2008: Belarussian journalist jailed and then released ov
- Oct 2007: Journalists Arrested in Belarus due to Protest
Belgium
- Oct 2007: EU debating access law
Bhutan
- Jan 2009: Reporter jailed for 7 years
Bolivia
- Apr 2012: Increasing attacks target journalists
- Oct 2009: Dynamite explodes outside newspaper office
Brazil
- May 2012: Brazil enacts law toward greater transparency
- Apr 2012: Journalist escapes assassination attempt
- Mar 2012: Judicial censorship continues to hinder political coverage in Brazil
- Feb 2012: Brazilian journalists covering violent shantytown raid face gunfire and military restrictions
- Nov 2011: Brazilian cameraman killed in anti-drug trafficking operation
- Apr 2011: Senator Confiscates Journalist’s Tape Recorder
- Mar 2011: Journalists fight for press freedom
- Mar 2011: Government Makes Effort to Ensure Press Freedom
- Nov 2010: Brazilian radio host shot dead outside his home
- Apr 2010: TV host insults journalist on air
- Feb 2010: Journalist attacked for critiquing government
- Sep 2009: Press freedom regresses in Latin America
- Nov 2008: Newspaper distribution blocked
- Jul 2007: Paraguayan radio journalist discovered alive
Bulgaria
- Oct 2011: Bulgarian TV Host’s Car Bombed
- May 2011: Amendment to laws could affect press freedom
Burma
- Feb 2011: Australian editor imprisoned in Burma
- Apr 2010: Journalist arrested without explanation
- Dec 2008: Court hands down lengthy sentences for writers
- Oct 2008: Newspaper Web sites hacked
- Apr 2008: Government hikes satellite fees, suspends newspaper
- Apr 2008: Two journalists arrested
- Feb 2008: Government hikes satellite fees, suspends newspape
- Oct 2007: Burmese government cracks down on information flow
- Sep 2007: Burmese military authorities use questionable meth
Cambodia
- Apr 2010: Opposition editor freed from jail
- Feb 2010: Radio journalist acquitted of charges
Canada
- Feb 2010: Web causes trouble for 90-year-old magazine
- Oct 2007: Canadian FOI requests fall short
- Jun 2007: Daily Star reporter released on bail
Central African Republic
Chad
- Nov 2007: Photographer and aid workers held
Chile
- Mar 2012: Photojournalist from U.S. arrested in Chilean protest
- Jan 2012: Chilean government withdraws bill that could affect journalists
- Apr 2010: Journalist wins UN Press Freedom Prize
China
- May 2012: Citizen journalist wins environmental reporting award
- Mar 2012: Real name registration mandated for microblog users
- Feb 2012: Two foreign journalists attacked
- Jan 2012: China tightens grip on microblogs
- Nov 2011: The Communist Party says “enough” to entertainment media
- Nov 2011: Two Tibetan writers imprisoned by Chinese authorities
- Oct 2011: Journalist probing into public health scandal stabbed to death
- Mar 2011: Foreign journalists harassed for reporting at protest sites
- Jan 2011: President Hu's U.S. visit censored in China
- Oct 2010: Caught between authorities and private businesses
- Sep 2010: Journalist illegally arrested for writing book on dam
- Apr 2010: Journalists’ e-mails hacked
- Apr 2010: Google leaves mainland China, moves to Hong Kong
- Nov 2009: Police arrest two Uighur journalists
- Oct 2009: Tibetans arrested for instant messaging
- Apr 2008: China frees two journalists but jails another
- Nov 2007: Detained journalist beaten in prison
- Oct 2007: Report: China Tightening Censorship on the Interne
- Sep 2007: China frees jailed New York Times researcher
- Jul 2007: China bans influential NGO newsletter
- Jul 2007: Yahoo! criticizes repression of Internet users
- Jul 2007: Seven charged in murder of journalist
- Feb 2007: Editor freed from prison; paper's president r
Colombia
- Mar 2012: Columbian journalist sentenced to prison in libel case
- Oct 2011: Colombian journalist wins award for encouraging human rights
- Apr 2011: Government Violence Used to Threaten Journalists
- May 2010: Photographer killed
- Apr 2010: Reporter killed
- Oct 2007: Politics loses place on community radio
- Jun 2007: Suspects confess motive in journalist's death
Costa Rica
- Feb 2010: Libel law for journalists repealed
Croatia
- Apr 2008: On February 13, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Nov 2007: Journalist arrested because of blog
Cuba
- Sep 2011: Journalist in Cuba banned from reporting
- Feb 2011: Journalist Released and Blogs Unblocked
- Mar 2010: Journalist on hunger strike to protest prisoner mistreatment
- Nov 2009: Award-winning blogger abducted
- Oct 2009: Blogger wins oldest international journalism award
- Apr 2008: Cuban Foreign Minister signs covenant protecting freedom of expression
- Jul 2007: Reporter sentenced to four years
- Feb 2007: Reporter arrested after speaking out
Cyprus
- Feb 2010: Media group CEO killed
- Nov 2007: Protesters gather outside newspaper office
Czech Republic
- Oct 2009: IPI gives press freedom report
Democratic Republic of Congo
- Apr 2010: Journalist robbed and killed in home
- Sep 2009: Agency threatens to close radio stations
- Dec 2008: Journalist acquitted after 41-day imprisonment
- Dec 2008: Kidnapped journalist released
- Dec 2008: Journalist, presumed dead, found alive
- Nov 2007: Information minister bans news organizations
- Nov 2007: Higher-ed minister orders guards to beat journalis
Denmark
- Feb 2010: Controversial Danish cartoonist escapes attack
- Apr 2008: Danish newspapers reprint Mohammad cartoon; protes
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
- Mar 2007: Drug traffickers threaten journalist
East Timor
Ecuador
- Apr 2012: Vote on "controversial" media regulation bill postponed
- Feb 2012: Ecuadorian court’s sentencing in libel case could cause “irreparable damage to free speech”
- Feb 2012: Ecuadorian court says it will uphold sentencing against journalists in defamation case
- Feb 2011: Journalists silenced by government
- Jan 2011: Newsmagazine equipment confiscated
- Apr 2010: Journalist charged with insulting official
Egypt
- Sep 2011: New Egyptian authority believes media are a threat for country’s security
- Feb 2011: CBS correspondent sexually assaulted in Cairo
- Feb 2011: Mubarak’s resignation raises hope of new liberties
- Feb 2011: Pressure on journalists could continue as the international press leaves
- Feb 2011: Journalists continue to report despite attacks
- Feb 2011: Al Jazeera operations in Egypt shut down
- Feb 2010: Controversial blogger released from jail
- Oct 2009: Journalist detained in airport
- May 2009: Cairo news company appeals complaint
- Apr 2009: Graphic novel raises concern
- Apr 2009: Blogger released
- Dec 2008: Doctored photo brings heavy fine
- Dec 2008: Coverage of court cases forbidden
- Oct 2008: Editor pardoned
- Sep 2008: Authorities cracking down on satellite television
- Sep 2007: Editor interrogated for questioning President Hosni Mubarak's health
- Sep 2007: Egyptian editors arrested for slander
- Feb 2007: Blogger receives four-year prison sentence
El Salvador
- Sep 2009: Photojournalist murdered
England
- Mar 2011: Judge orders naming of journalists in hacking scandal
- Feb 2010: Correspondent killed
- Dec 2008: Newspaper made to pay damages to athlete
- Jun 2007: BBC journalist missing from Gaza since March 12
- Jun 2007: Alan Johnston still alive according to Palestinian
- Jun 2007: BBC to archive millions of hours of content
- Mar 2007: Freedom of Information under attack in England
- Feb 2007: Death of journalist in Iraq under investigation
- Oct 2006: Landmark victory for investigative journalism
Eritrea
- Oct 2009: Eight years later, media suppression remains
- Oct 2007: Six years of oppression
- Jul 2007: Eritrea Television journalist dies in bid to flee
Ethiopia
- Feb 2012: Future uncertain for Ethiopian NGO as press freedoms wane
- Jan 2012: Three Ethiopian journalists convicted of terrorism
- Sep 2011: Anti-terrorism law hinders journalists
- Jun 2010: Ethiopian Election Coverage Lacks Independent Media Voice
- Apr 2010: Prime Minister and U.S. at odds over Voice of America
- Dec 2009: Independent newspaper folds
- Dec 2008: Outspoken editor beaten unconcious
- Nov 2008: Newspaper editor jailed for misprint
Fiji
- Apr 2009: Journalists covering crisis are deported
- Feb 2007: Soldiers attack photojournalist
France
- Nov 2011: Satirical magazine offices firebombed for publishing Prophet Muhammad’s caricatures
- Nov 2009: RSF releases press freedom index
- Dec 2008: Journalist pressured to reveal sources
- Jul 2008: Le Monde staff strikes over job cuts
- Apr 2008: Le Monde annouces job cuts
- Apr 2008: Public TV and radio stations go on strike, Preside
- Apr 2008: President Sarkozy sets lawsuit precedent
- Oct 2007: Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Inde
- Jul 2007: Generic journalism curricula issued
- Jun 2007: Media appeal for release of BBC reporter
Free Press Watch
- Jun 2011: Exiled Journalists Continue their Work
- Jun 2011: June 6: The latest press freedom news from around the world
Gambia
- Oct 2011: Gambia VP touts tourism, downplays human rights issues, dead journalist
- Nov 2010: Five journalists honored
- Sep 2009: Six journalists pardoned
- Apr 2009: Charge against editor dropped
- Apr 2009: Authorities legally harass publisher
- Feb 2009: Embassy story leads to arrest
- Apr 2008: Reporter is still detained Gambia
- Jul 2007: Intelligence agency arrests journalist
- Jul 2007: Charges filed against arrested journalist
Georgia
Germany
- Apr 2010: Law could protect journalists who reveal state secrets
- May 2009: Information law threatens press freedom
- Oct 2008: Amendments threaten journalists' rights
Global Journalist Show
- Jul 2011: Covering Women's Sports Around the World
- Jun 2011: Checking the pulse of Middle Eastern journalism after the Arab Spring
- Jun 2011: Covering Organized Crime
Greece
- May 2012: Police set standards for treatment of journalists
- Apr 2012: Journalist’s cracked skull is called a deliberate police attack
- Feb 2012: Coverage of financial crisis draws legal backlash
- Jul 2010: First Greek journalist killed in two decades
- Mar 2009: Anarchists target Greek press
- Jul 2007: Media law raises concerns
Guatemala
- Mar 2007: Correspondent attacked
Guinea
- Oct 2011: Obiang prize goes down to the wire
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
- Nov 2010: Government pledges to investigate murdered journalists
- May 2010: Journalism professor shot and killed
- Apr 2010: Radio presenter killed
- Apr 2010: Two journalists killed after radio show
- Apr 2010: TV host shot by unidentified gunmen
- Mar 2010: Radio journalist killed
- Mar 2010: TV host killed in car accident
- Oct 2009: Authorities close two media outlets
- Oct 2007: Possible reform of defamation laws
Hungary
- Apr 2012: President accepts consequences after plagiarism scandal
- Mar 2011: Protests against Hungarian media law continue
- Mar 2011: Hungary amends media law to satisfy EU concerns
- Nov 2010: Additional parts of media law passed, others dropped
Iceland
India
- Mar 2012: Journalists attacked by citizens while covering elections
- Feb 2012: Freelance journalist and family killed at home
- Feb 2012: Journalists demand protective law
- Feb 2011: Indian government takes first step toward decriminalizing defamation
- May 2010: Police assault reporter during demonstration
- Mar 2010: Violence, threats plague Indian journalists
- Oct 2009: Editor arrested for reporting on prostitution ring
- Apr 2007: Mizzima News Agency re-opened
Indonesia
- Apr 2012: Journalist dead after plane attack
- Mar 2011: Men charged with murder of journalist acquitted
- Jul 2008: New guidelines to protect journalists
Iran
- Nov 2011: Independent journalist detained in Iran after reporting for the BBC
- Feb 2011: Iranian journalist pays a visit to media prison again
- Dec 2009: Government forms Web police unit
- Oct 2009: Four pro-reform papers closed
- Sep 2009: Reporters charged for election rumors
- May 2009: Jailed journalist goes on hunger strike
- May 2009: Iranian-American journalist imprisoned
- Apr 2009: American journalist charged with spying
- Apr 2008: Radio Farda journalist sentenced for “disseminatin
- Oct 2007: Activist arrested yet again
- Oct 2007: Website shut down by court
- Jul 2007: Ban lifted on Web site that criticized Ahmadinejad
Iraq
- Apr 2011: Journalist killed amid continued harassment
- Mar 2011: Systematic attacks on news outlets in Iraq
- Feb 2011: Gunmen murder Iraqi journalist
- Apr 2010: WikiLeaks releases video of airstrike that killed two journalists
- Feb 2010: Gunmen kidnap radio journalist from home
- Feb 2010: U.S. military frees Iraqi journalist
- Feb 2010: Journalists face new restrictive rules
- Feb 2010: Iraqi Kurdish jounalist wins Gebran Tueni Award
- Dec 2009: TV host wounded in attack
- Oct 2009: 'Shoe-thrower' freed
- Sep 2009: Reporter remains in U.S. custody one year later
- Apr 2009: Shoe-thrower sentence reduced to one year
- Apr 2009: U.N. calls for greater safety
- Apr 2009: Journalists divided on "shoe" verdict
- Apr 2008: CBS journalist freed in Basra
- Apr 2008: AP photographer released from U.S. custody
- Apr 2008: Two CBS journalists abducted in Basra
- Apr 2008: Head of Iraq’s journalist union killed
- Oct 2007: Two more journalists murdered in Iraq
- Oct 2007: Martial Arts for journalists working in Iraq
- Jul 2007: Journalists' death toll increases
Ireland
- Dec 2008: Presses stopped
- Apr 2008: Four BBC journalists were arrested in County Doneg
Israel
- Apr 2012: Critical German poet is banned
- Feb 2012: Extradition request denied for key witness in Ukrainian journalist's murder investigation
- Feb 2010: American editor expelled from Israel
- Feb 2009: Journalists aboard Gaza aid ship attacked
- Dec 2008: Army closes investigation into death of cameraman
- Apr 2008: Reuters Cameraman Killed in Gaza
- Apr 2008: The Hamas government’s internal security services
Italy
- Oct 2011: Government bill threatens investigative journalism in Italy
- Jun 2010: Italy’s Senate vote for wiretapping restrictions
- Dec 2008: Television crew harassed
- Oct 2008: Mafia plan hit on journalist
- Sep 2007: Attempt to kill Italian journalist fails
Ivory Coast
Japan
- Feb 2010: Chinese writer living in Japanese airport to return to Shanghai
- Apr 2008: Lawsuit to restore journalists' innoncence
Jordan
Kenya
- Apr 2012: Kenyan journalists threatened after exposing corruption
- Oct 2008: Authorities arrest and hold former journalist
- Jul 2007: Proposed media bill a threat to journalism
Kuwait
- Jan 2011: Blogger released from jail
- Apr 2010: Journalist sentenced to six months in prison
Kyrgystan
- May 2010: New Authorities ban four television stations
- Nov 2009: Correspondent assaulted at checkpoint
- Apr 2008: Kyrgyz authorities shut down Saipov murder investi
- Apr 2007: Reporter assaulted with brass knuckles
- Apr 2007: Two TV journalists attacked in March
Latvia
Lebanon
- Apr 2012: Journalist escapes death 20 years after father’s murder
- Apr 2010: May Chidiac recognized as 54th IPI World Press Freedom Hero
- Dec 2009: Journalist accused of 'insulting' president
- Feb 2007: Broadcast journalists released from Beirut prison
Liberia
- Mar 2012: Liberian journalist remains in hiding two weeks after threats
- Nov 2011: Liberian government shuts down three broadcasters with court order
Libya
- Nov 2011: Journalist held in Libyan prison searches for the man who jailed him
- Apr 2011: Foreign journalists killed
- Apr 2011: Journalists arrested or missing
- Mar 2011: Second journalist killed, others held in Libya
- Mar 2011: Journalists face increased danger in Libya
- Mar 2011: Libyan government attempts to control foreign media
- Feb 2011: Protesters take over state radio in Libya
Macedonia
Malawi
Malaysia
- Sep 2011: Malaysian Prime Minister Promises to Abolish Security Laws and Publications Act
- Oct 2008: Two reporters, lawmaker arrested and held
- Oct 2008: Blogger arrested for inciting the public
- Jul 2008: Malay blogger charged with sedition
- Apr 2008: Journalist arrested for asking too many questions
- Sep 2007: Malaysian government attempts to silence Internet
- Apr 2007: Government warns media against using blogs
- Apr 2007: Political party members allegedly assault photogs
- Feb 2007: New report on government's freedom of informa
- Jan 2007: Newspaper reporters bring defamation suits against
Mali
Mauritania
- Feb 2010: Editor faces an extended stay in prison
- Apr 2009: Junta chief pardons jailed editor
Mexico
- Feb 2012: Journalist and activist killed by gunmen
- Oct 2011: Mexico citzens turn to social media to report terror
- Sep 2011: Mexico most dangerous place to be a journalist
- Feb 2011: Newspaper employee becomes latest casualty of the drug war
- Nov 2010: Spain’s Agencia Efe launches a new platform for mobile phones
- Nov 2010: Police raid shuts down radio station
- May 2010: Sixth journalist killed in Mexico this year
- Apr 2010: Columnist kidnapped and murdered
- Apr 2010: Reporter murdered
- Mar 2010: Several journalists kidnapped
- Feb 2010: Journalists killed
- Feb 2010: Mexico named a dangerous place for journalists
- May 2009: Journalist gunned down on World Press Freedom Day
- Apr 2008: Photographer Gabriel Huge Córdoba was detained
- Oct 2007: Newspaper delivery workers murdered
- Jul 2007: No hope of finding missing journalists alive
- Apr 2007: President eliminates prison sentences for libel
Moldova
- Oct 2007: TVR - Another Act of Moldovan Censorship
Montenegro
- Mar 2012: Journalist hit, threatened
Morocco
- Feb 2012: Youths Detained, Freedom of Expression in Jeopardy in Morocco
- Oct 2011: Moroccan appeal court upholds editor’s prison sentence
- Nov 2010: Al-Jazeera suspended indefinitely
- Feb 2010: Independent magazine closes
- Apr 2009: Reuters photographer allowed to stay
- Dec 2008: Magazine’s international edition banned
- Feb 2007: Magazines brought to court for criticizing king
Nepal
- Feb 2010: Journalists face harassment for reporting on death of television news mogul
- Feb 2010: Murder of television network executive sparks police investigation
- Apr 2008: Media must follow election code of conduct
- Apr 2008: Eastern presses stalled
- Feb 2008: Journalist loses hand in attack over controversial
- Oct 2007: Journalist abducted in Nepal
- Oct 2007: Journalist’s death raises suspicions
- Oct 2007: Unions attack news organization
- Oct 2007: Journalist abducted in Nepal
Netherlands
- Jan 2009: Court allows hate speech prosecution
Nicaragua
- Dec 2008: Prominent journalist under investigation
Niger
- Nov 2009: Journalist freed after 86 days in prison
- Oct 2007: Journalist held without reason given
- Sep 2007: Live debates on regional rebellion banned
- Oct 2006: Director, editor handed 18 month prison sentences
Nigeria
- Feb 2012: Journalists detained and blocked from covering northern Nigerian conflict
- Jan 2012: Two journalists killed in Nigeria
- Oct 2011: Police arrest six journalists from independent newspaper
- Apr 2011: Political unrest from election
- May 2010: Three Journalists killed in one weekend in Nigeria
- Mar 2010: Journalist escapes fatal beating at funeral
- Mar 2010: South African sound engineer released
- Feb 2010: Desert Herald editor harassed by police
- Dec 2009: Editors guild denounces press bill
- Sep 2009: Editor shot to death
- Mar 2009: Sultan urges journalists to be fair
- Feb 2008: Nigeria sends journalist to prison
North Korea
- Apr 2009: American journalists to stand trial
Pakistan
- Apr 2012: Senior journalist murdered
- Oct 2011: Web editor found dead in apartment
- Jun 2011: Pakistani journalist reflects on colleague's death
- Apr 2010: Filmmaker disappears after interview with Taliban leadership
- Apr 2010: Cameraman killed in suicide bombing
- Feb 2009: Attack on Indian journalists condemned
- Jul 2008: Arrest made in murder of journalist
- Apr 2008: Pakistani journalist killed
- Apr 2008: Pakistan on way to lifting media restrictions on i
- Apr 2008: Journalists in Pakistan face bodily harm
- Oct 2007: Journalist Protest Incites Police Brutality
- Jul 2007: Pakistani journalist killed in mosque clashes
- Jul 2007: Journalist murdered in Sindh province
- Apr 2007: Regulatory body threatens independent TV station
- Apr 2007: Pakistani reporter's family killed
Palestinian National Authority
- Mar 2011: Reporters beaten during Gaza demonstrations
- Feb 2011: Al Jazeera releases the leaked Palestine Papers
- Mar 2010: Hamas frees British freelance journalist
- Feb 2010: British documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist detained
- Sep 2008: Gaza radio station back on the air
- Sep 2007: Palestinian Executive Force interrogates journalis
- Jul 2007: Johnston released in Gaza
Panama
- Feb 2010: Government considers regulating media
- Mar 2007: Journalists protest reforms in Panama City
Peru
- Nov 2011: Peruvian reporter attacked by four unidentified assailants
- Sep 2011: Second Peruvian journalist killed this month
- Mar 2010: Picture shows judge pointing gun at journalist
- Apr 2009: Former president faces 25-year sentence
- Oct 2007: Journalists convicted of criminal defamation
- Oct 2007: Military leaders sentenced in journalist’s 1988 mu
- Oct 2007: Guards fire on journalists
Philippines
- Mar 2012: Radioman wounded in attack
- Nov 2011: Radio journalist seriously injured by gunmen
- Oct 2011: Newspaper chief editor gunned down
- Sep 2011: Philippine radio commentator shot dead
- Apr 2011: Cop acquitted in five-year murder trial of radio anchor
- Apr 2011: Radio host murdered
- Jun 2010: Three Filipino journalists killed
- Feb 2010: Filipino court convicts hit man for murder of journalist
- Apr 2009: Radio broadcaster shot
- Dec 2008: Suspects in journalist's death missing
- Oct 2008: Journalists injured in crossfire
- Oct 2007: Broadcaster injured in attack
- Jul 2007: New anti-terror law threatens journalists
- Apr 2007: Radio journalist fears retaliation in jail
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
- Mar 2012: Two-step with foreign media continued during run-up to Putin’s reelection
- Feb 2012: Deportation order reversed for French journalist
- Feb 2012: Newspaper offices firebombed following reports on local government corruption
- Sep 2011: Retired policeman charged with Politkovskaya murder
- Sep 2011: St Petersburg Police Seizes Newspaper to Check For Extremist Content
- Feb 2011: Guardian journalist who was refused entry into Russia allowed to return
- Feb 2011: Social media broke news of airport bombing before traditional outlets
- Nov 2010: Brutal beating of journalist caught on camera
- Oct 2010: State officials pledge to investigate 19 journalist murders
- Sep 2010: Young journalist speaks out against brutal suppression, receives award
- Mar 2010: Man imprisoned for killing journalist released early
- Mar 2010: Olympic host city lacking independent voice
- Sep 2009: Investigative editor killed in Dagestan
- Apr 2009: Official may have helped murder suspect flee
- Apr 2009: New investigation of journalist's death
- Feb 2009: Threats against journalists continue
- Jan 2009: Fourth Novaya Gazeta reporter killed
- Dec 2008: Politkovskaya trial closed to public
- Oct 2008: Russian channel still broadcasting despite threats
- Oct 2008: Politkovskaya murder still unsolved
- Jul 2008: Politkovskaya’s murderer charged
- Apr 2008: Two Russian journalists killed
- Apr 2008: Slandering the President is now an "extremist
- Apr 2008: Police raid two Russian newspapers for counterfeit
- Apr 2008: Police in Russia's Ingushetia Region Harm Jou
- Apr 2008: Russian Union of Journalists in jeopardy
- Oct 2007: Politkovskaya Suspects Charged
- Oct 2007: Newspaper under threat for insulting Putin
- Sep 2007: New Suspect in Politkovskaya Murder
- Jul 2007: Police close down Internews Russia
- Jul 2007: Bill may effect freedom of speech
- Jul 2007: Russia rules out murder in journalist's death
- Jul 2007: Internews leaves Russia
- Apr 2007: Russian journalists harassed covering elections
- Apr 2007: Klebnikov trial postponed, defendant missing
- Apr 2007: Russian editor faces up to 5 years in prison
- Mar 2007: Second Klebnikov murder trial begins Friday
- Mar 2007: After journalist's death, questions remain
- Feb 2007: Chechen police investigated in journalist death
- Feb 2007: Putin promises to protect press in Russia
- Feb 2007: Reporter charged with insulting official online
- Feb 2007: Newspaper editor and founder jailed since Jan. 21
- Feb 2007: Police search IWPR offices in the North Caucasus
- Oct 2006: Newspaper raided and harassed
Rwanda
- Dec 2011: Exiled Rwanda online journalist killed in Uganda
- Jul 2010: Newspaper editor jailed
- Apr 2010: Weekly newspapers suspended months before presidential election
- Mar 2010: Rwandan trio arrested for reporting on alleged affair
- Dec 2008: Journalist acquitted, 14 years later
Saudi Arabia
- Oct 2009: King waives journalist's punishment
- Jul 2008: Blogger released from jail
- Apr 2008: Saudi cleric condemns two of the country's jo
Scotland
- Feb 2007: Editor, reporter prosecuted for contempt
Senegal
- Apr 2008: Reporter attacked covering protest
Serbia
- Oct 2011: Two journalists face charges for publishing Serbian government documents
- Aug 2010: Media development praised by SEEMO
- Apr 2009: TV crew attacked
- Mar 2009: Controversy over smuggled student
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
- Feb 2012: Court bans book by investigative journalist
- Apr 2010: Constitutional Court maintains freedom of expression
Slovenia
- Oct 2009: Gag order overturned
Somalia
- Apr 2012: More attacks against Somali journalists by Al-Shahaab
- Mar 2012: Two radio journalists killed in Somalia within a week
- Feb 2012: Third Shabelle Media Network director killed in Mogadishu
- Sep 2011: Malaysian journalist killed by AU in Somalia
- Nov 2010: Journalists in Somalia plead to president for press freedom
- Apr 2010: Battle between government and Islamist insurgents hits the airwaves
- Dec 2009: Kidnapped journalists freed after 15 months
- Oct 2009: Tensions put pressure on reporters
- May 2009: Freelancer released after pardon
- Feb 2009: Radio chief killed
- Jan 2009: Ransom demand lowered
- Oct 2007: Radio Station bombed
- Sep 2007: Editors targeted for coverage
- Jul 2007: Somaliland TV reporter held for three days
- Mar 2007: Radio journalist, union activist murdered
- Mar 2007: Four journalists sentenced despite protective law
South Africa
- May 2012: Legal victory for protection of sources, but press regulation still on the table
- Sep 2011: South Africa passes Secrecy Bill to jail journalists
- Oct 2010: African National Congress discuss possible media regulations at mid-term conference
- Oct 2009: Media bill causes concern
South Korea
- Feb 2009: Man arrested for undermining economy
- Apr 2008: New ‘press-friendly’ policy proposed
Spain
- Oct 2011: Court decision refutes Franco’s press law
- Jun 2010: Spanish sentencing ruled a violation by European Court of Human Rights
- May 2010: Daily acquitted of Basque terrorist connections
- Dec 2008: Two journalists arrested during political rally
- Oct 2007: Insulting the crown still a crime
- Feb 2007: Warrant issued for U.S. soldiers
Sri Lanka
- Feb 2012: Journalists rallied against media suppression
- Nov 2011: Sri Lankan anti-government website blocked
- Jan 2011: Rally for justice in light of journalist attacks
- May 2010: Newly-appointed deputy media minister notorious for poor treatment of journalists
- Apr 2010: TV station attacked by mob
- Feb 2010: Sri Lankan newspaper raided by government
- Nov 2009: Editors receive death threats
- May 2009: Editor of Tamil newspaper released
- Apr 2009: Ambassador denies press freedom crisis
- Mar 2009: Groups want justice for jailed Tamil reporter
- Mar 2009: Journalists urge release of Tamil editor
- Jan 2009: Editor murdered, another assaulted
- Dec 2008: Sri Lankan press in peril, IPFM finds
- Dec 2008: Landmark journalists' rights trial begins
- Oct 2008: Newspaper refuses to change inflammatory caption
- Oct 2007: Sri Lankan Reporter interrogated for his sources
- Jul 2007: Court sets high bail for editor's releasel
- Mar 2007: Journalists abducted in capital
- Feb 2007: Press limited by ink shortage
Sudan
- Feb 2012: Another Sudanese newspaper silenced, the third in 2012
- Oct 2008: Daily English-language paper allowed to resume
- Oct 2008: Government lifts publication ban, jails editor
- Apr 2008: Two Sudanese editors were detained Feb. 18 over pu
Sweden
- Mar 2007: Unaccredited photographer arrested
- Feb 2007: Worlds oldest newspaper now online only
Switzerland
Syria
- Apr 2012: Dangers intensify for citizen journalists
- Apr 2012: Murder of journalists continues
- Mar 2012: Citizens die to save reporters
- Feb 2012: Opression of media nears worst-in-the-world ranking
- Dec 2011: Syrian blogger and press freedom campaigner detained by authorities
- May 2011: Al Jazeera leaves
- Apr 2011: Attacks on journalists increase
- Mar 2011: Bloggers in Syria considered enemies of the state
- Oct 2007: Syrian Journalist held in detention
- Sep 2007: Syrian Cyber-dissident released
Taiwan
- Apr 2008: Journalists want U.N. press credentials
Tajikistan
- Feb 2011: Government official prosecutes independent magazine for investigative report
- Jan 2011: Entire newspaper staff resigns
- Oct 2007: New Laws could Restrict Speech
Tanzania
- Feb 2009: Money a problem for covering rural areas
Thailand
- Nov 2011: Court continues to keep editor in custody
- Apr 2011: 13 radio stations closed by military forces
- Mar 2011: New evidence found surrounding death of Japanese journalist
- Apr 2010: Japanese cameraman shot in Bangkok
- Apr 2010: Government gags opposition media
- Apr 2010: Grenades thrown at television stations
- Apr 2009: Blogger convicted of defaming monarchy
- Feb 2008: Public television comes to Thailand
- Jul 2007: Government continues to suppress freedom of speech
- Mar 2007: Only independent station shuts down
Togo
Tunisia
- May 2010: One journalist released, another assaulted
- Apr 2010: Authorities impede press conferences on human rights
- Feb 2010: Imprisoned journalist receives early release
- Feb 2010: Despite protests, critical journalists remain imprisoned
- Feb 2009: Police raid radio offices
- Jan 2009: Journalist faces continued harassment
- Dec 2008: Television reporter in hiding
- Dec 2008: Radio broadcaster beaten and arrested
- Oct 2008: Online magazine victim of cyber attack
- Oct 2007: Journalist manhandled by police
- Mar 2007: French media censored by authorities
Turkey
- Mar 2012: UPDATE: For journalists a year in prison ends, fight for freedom continues
- Mar 2012: Groups condemn the imprisonment of Turkish investigative reporters
- Jan 2012: Verdicts in journalist’s assassination prompt mass protests
- Apr 2011: Turkey currently has the most jailed journalists
- Mar 2011: Turkey takes a step back from democracy
- Nov 2010: Freedom for Turkish Members of the Press
- Nov 2010: TV station charged for broadcast
- Dec 2009: Media allowed to use Kurdish language
- Sep 2009: Newspaper wiretapped without court OK
- Sep 2009: Court orders newspaper closed for a month
- Apr 2008: Two journalists are facing investigation for caric
- Oct 2007: Acquitted of one charge, facing three more
- Sep 2007: Turkish Court moves to block YouTube
- Feb 2007: New suspects arrested for journalist's death
- Jan 2007: Journalist killed after challenging Turkish histor
Turkmenistan
- Oct 2007: New Comment Feature Removed
Uganda
- Apr 2011: Uganda Broadcasters Face New Regulations
- Oct 2010: Second journalist beaten to death in less than a week
- Apr 2010: Journalists fear proposed press controls
- Feb 2010: Journalists battle with government over freedom of information
- Sep 2009: Media charged with inciting riots
Ukraine
- Apr 2012: Controversial “death match” film blocked
- Apr 2011: Journalists protest firing of editor
- Feb 2011: Search for missing journalist continues
United Arab Emirates
- Dec 2011: United Arab Emirates: Bloggers and activists pardoned and freed
- Mar 2009: Economic crisis kept off the front page
- Feb 2009: New law would give freedom to journalists
- Oct 2007: Journalists released on bail
United Kingdom
- Feb 2011: The BBC World Service cuts jobs and languages for news service
- Oct 2009: Gag order lifted
- Oct 2007: BBC Arabic TV to operate 24 hours a day
United States
- Dec 2011: Senate passes provision allowing military to detain terrorism suspects in U.S.
- Nov 2011: Journalists face consequences for covering the Occupy protests
- Feb 2011: Journalists condemn police abuse against reporters
- Jul 2010: Morris receives visa after pressure from press organizations
- Jul 2010: Nieman Fellow at Harvard denied U.S. visa
- Feb 2010: Journalist captured by Taliban among George Polk Award winners
- Feb 2010: Reporter from New York Times resigns over plagiarism charges
- Oct 2009: Murdoch: Search engines must pay for news
- Sep 2009: Study: Press credibility at 20-year low
- Feb 2009: Mogul's NYT investment raises concern
- Dec 2008: Cuban reporters permitted to return home
- Apr 2008: USA Today journalist appeal has been upheld
- Oct 2007: Anchor sues for millions
- Jul 2007: Foundation offers prize for preventive journalism
- Jul 2007: Ex-media mogul Conrad Black convicted
- Jul 2007: Zell makes a deal
- Jun 2007: Wolf finally released
- Feb 2007: Army drops subpoena charges against journalists
- Feb 2007: Reporter breaks record for longest time in jail
- Oct 2006: Blogger freed after 30 days in jail
- Oct 2006: CPJ reports on journalist held in Guantanamo
Uzbekistan
- Oct 2010: Journalist charged with defamation
- Oct 2008: Journalist receives 10-year prison sentence
- Feb 2007: Journalist charged with illegal literature
Venezuela
- Oct 2011: IFEX demands increased freedom of expression for Venezuela
- Oct 2011: Hackers in Venezuela target journalists and activists
- Nov 2010: Chavez and Freedom of the Press
- Feb 2010: Newspaper editor killed
- Feb 2010: Chavez on air again
- Feb 2010: Journalist in trouble for humorous editorial
- Feb 2010: Chavez shuts down popular television station
- Mar 2009: Government partially acquitted in TV journalist cases
- Apr 2008: Police in Ospino shot at three Venezuelan journali
- Feb 2007: Paper fined for piece about Chavez's daughter
Vietnam
- Apr 2012: Well-known blogger will face trial
- Nov 2011: Two Vietnamese journalists face jail time for broadcasting to China
- Feb 2011: Wife confesses husband’s murder
- Feb 2011: Reporter dies ten days after arson attack
- Oct 2010: French-Vietnamese blogger charged
- Feb 2010: Government suppresses two controversial political blogs
- Feb 2010: Writer in Vietnam given jail time for criticizing the state
- Sep 2009: Blogger released from prison
- Feb 2009: Government keeps check on bloggers
- Apr 2008: Journalist and activist released from prison
Yemen
- Mar 2011: Yemeni journalist killed
- Mar 2011: More violence against journalists in Yemen
- Mar 2011: Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate attacked
- Feb 2011: Journalists face violence in Yemen
- Jan 2011: Head of Women Journalists Without Chains charged for protest
- Apr 2010: Officials seize broadcasting equipment from news outlets
- Mar 2010: Newspaper journalist killed
- Feb 2010: Special court bans journalists from practicing
- Nov 2009: Press court bans journalist
- Oct 2009: Editor disappears
- May 2009: Authorities seize newspaper offices
- Apr 2008: News sites blocked by government
- Sep 2007: Former editor of online magazine kidnapped and bea
Zambia
- Jul 2010: Zambian newspaper owner receives support from IPI World Press Freedom Heroes
- Oct 2009: Editor faces contempt charges
Zimbabwe
- Feb 2009: First Lady assaults British photog
- Apr 2008: New York Times correspondent was detained
- Oct 2007: Journalists marked for surveillance
- Oct 2007: Journalist and two actors arrested during play
- Oct 2006: Future of the Internet is unclear