Guinea's Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (l'Agence Régulation des Postes et Télécommunications-ARPT) has taken private radio stations Sabari FM, Gangan FM, Djigui FM and Evasion FM off the air. Source: MEDIA FEED
– Ghana: Journalists attacked while covering demonstration in Accra
The Media Foundation for West Africa condemns the attack on four journalists and a driver by vigilantes of the New Patriotic Party in Accra, and wishes to call on the party's leadership to ensure swift punishment for the perpetrators. Source: MEDIA FEED
– Emirati rights defender Obaid Al-Zaabi released more than three years after being found innocent
Obaid Al-Zaabi, now 60 years old, spent four years in prison since his arrest in December 2013. Source: MEDIA FEED
– Rights groups call on Palestine to reform restrictive cybercrimes law
The Justice Ministry has proposed striking some repressive provisions in the 2017 law in response to concerns from civil society groups, but left in place others that would allow disproportionate and arbitrary restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, privacy, and protection of data. Source: MEDIA FEED
– Mexico most deadly country for journalists in 2017
Mexico was the deadliest country for journalists in 2017 with at least 14 killed, edging out Iraq and Syria, even as the total number who died around the world in connection with their work dropped to its lowest level in a nearly a decade, the International Press Institute (IPI) said. Source: MEDIA FEED
– DRC radio journalist Benjamin Mutiya detained over defamation claim
The national security service (ANR) arrested Benjamin Mutiya, a reporter at the community station Radio Télévision Communautaire de Walikale (RTCWA), in Walikale, on 14 December 2017. Source: MEDIA FEED
– Cameroon: RFI reporter Ahmed Abba released from prison
Reporters Without Borders welcomes radio reporter Ahmed Abba's imminent release after a military appeal court in Yaoundé reduced his jail sentence on terrorism charges from 10 years to 24 months. Source: MEDIA FEED
– How does the UN monitor the implementation of its resolutions on journalists' safety?
A 5-minute IFEX guide to how the UN checks whether or not governments are putting their international commitments on journalists' safety and the problem of impunity into action – and how civil society can contribute. Source: MEDIA FEED