International Press Institute (IPI)

“The government rules the courtroom, not the law. Talking about justice in a courtroom feels like punching against a solid wall of evil. Your mind and soul hurt when you have to defend yourself against such slander.”

Suna Venter’s broken heart, silencing Sudan’s FIFA suspension, the unsolved case of Burundi’s Jean Bigirimana, policing police in Zimbabwe and more from Somalia, Senegal, Nigeria and South Sudan.

Cumhuriyet columnist and IPI Board Member Kadri Gürsel dismantles accusations against him in a stirring defence of journalists’ rights.

Zambia’s police Inspector General Kakoma Kanganja suggested that some “publications” could be shut down while emergency powers are in place.

The Polish government’s plans to reform the country’s Supreme Court, which have sparked protests over a perceived erosion of the separation of powers and the rule of law, also have significant potential consequences for media freedom, Polish journalists and media experts say.

An investigative reporter for the independent newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Tomasz Piatek is facing a possible two to three-year jail sentence in a case that is being prepared by military prosecutors and could be heard by a military court.

On the one-year anniversary of the death of popular Cambodian activist Kem Ley, civil society organisations from around the world reiterated their call for an independent inquiry.

A Johannesburg court has granted a South African journalists’ request for an order to stop a campaign of intimidation by activists from “Black First, Land First” (BLF), who picketed the home of an editor and published a list of journalists to target.