AFP journalist and FRANCE 24 contributor Farhad Pouladi was freed Saturday, the AFP confirmed. Pouladi was detained in Tehran earlier this week as he headed to cover rallies outside the former US Embassy.
A Saudi female journalist said Saturday that a court has ordered her to receive 60 lashes for working at a television network that aired a man's sexual confessions.
Papers in India and Pakistan as well as around the globe are analysing the recent spate of militant attacks in Pakistan. Amongst the questions being asked - why are so many former Pakistani military personnel turning rogue?
A British soldier was killed during a rescue operation to free New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell (photo), who was captured and held hostage by the Taliban for four days in Afghanistan. Farrell's interpreter Sultan Munadi was also killed.
NATO troops freed a kidnapped New York Times reporter in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday after he had been held for four days. Reporter Stephen Farrell was abducted on Saturday along with his Afghan interpreter, whose fate remains unknown.
Female journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein was freed on Tuesday after being jailed for one day for refusing to pay a fine for wearing "indecent" trousers, the head of the Sudanese Union of Journalists reported.
Sri Lanka's High Court has sentenced a Tamil reporter described by US President Barack Obama as an "emblematic example" of a persecuted journalist to 20 years in prison for supporting terrorism.
US President Barack Obama told North Korea relations betrween the two countries could improve if it abandoned its nuclear programme, after two US journalists freed by North Korea - with the help of with former president Bill Clinton - returned home.
A second trial over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been adjourned following a complaint by relatives of the victim who question the authorities' will to solve the case and call for a new investigation.
A new trial over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is due to begin on Wednesday. But her friends and relatives say the hearings are fundamentally flawed and a new investigation is needed.
