Center for Media Studies & Peace Building (CEMESP)

The Liberty Party partisans assaulted the RCI reporters for attempting to report on the former party chairman, who was being released from prison.

Reporter Nat Bayjay says he would have been lynched by partisans of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), had it not been for the intervention of a political candidate.

The program, funded by the UK-based Media Legal Defense Initiative, seeks to provide legal support to journalists who are threatened with legal action on account of their work.

Editor-in-chief Rodney Sieh has been notified that former minister Willis Knuckles has put a hit on his life, following a series of critical reports published in his daily newspaper.

A member of the House of Representatives was angered when journalist Roland Perry took his photograph without asking permission.

Roland Mulbah had to be rushed to hospital by his colleagues after suffering severe pain from the assault by the Lone Star players.

Thirty-six IFEX members, along with Centre for Law and Democracy and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, expressed concern about the 12 April resolution of the Court of Appeals, Manila Special Division of Five, requiring Monette Salaysay and Rowena Paraan to explain why they should not be held in contempt for comments attributed to them in a “Philippine Daily Inquirer” article regarding the Ampatuan Town Massacre trials.

Representatives from the international community of journalists’ organisations and press freedom defenders gathered in Lebanon for IFEX’s bi-annual conference and urged the Pakistani government and its law-enforcement and security agencies to take immediate action to implement all appropriate measures to protect media personnel and to prosecute murderers of journalists.