Taliban urged to probe abuse against journalist – The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Taliban to “immediately investigate the detention and alleged abuse in custody of Afghan journalist Mohib
Sudan – Sudanese security forces have released two journalists from Asharq television channel, a day after detaining them as deadly violence flared during renewed protests against the military government, the station said
BAGDHAD – Iraq’s supreme court on Monday sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of two journalists covering anti-government protests in the southern city of Basra last year. Ahmad
Turkish journalist Erk Acarer, one of several reporters critical of Ankara living in exile in Berlin, said Thursday he was attacked and injured outside his home and told to stop writing. Acarer
Plain-clothed security agents detained two journalists outside a court in Myanmar on Friday, part of the junta’s intensifying efforts to choke off information about resistance to February’s coup. Mizzima News’s former reporter,