Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
The authorities in Zimbabwe have continued their persecution of two
officials of the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party, the Movement
for Democratic Change.
Arrested for their alleged sexual conduct, the men were released from jail last week. They have since been the targets of homophobic statements by the media and an Isl
The wife of imprisoned Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng was
attacked and beaten early Sunday morning, as she tried to leave her
home to visit grieving relative
Four men arrested in recent days in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
have apparently been forcibly disappeared by police, leading to fears
that they may have been t
