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.
AFP journalist Farhad Pouladi was arrested in Tehran Wednesday as he phoned in a report to FRANCE 24 on the rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran. Three other reporters were also detained.
AFP journalist Farhad Pouladi has been arrested by Iranian police as he was making a telephone report to FRANCE 24 on the rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the US embassy in Tehran.
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.
Tunisian authorities have imposed restrictions on news coverage during the presidential election, preventing local and foreign journalists from performing their work, said free-press advocates Reporters Without Borders.
A lawyer for Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al Megrahi denied British channel Sky News’ report that his client had died. Al Megrahi was freed two months ago from a Scottish jail and is now back in Libya.
In this edition: A Moroccan journalist is jailed for a year for publishing articles about the King's health, Tunisia's election campaign and Sharia adoptions in Algeria.
An Italian television channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi has shadowed and secretly filmed a judge who ruled against the prime minister's family holding in a bribery case, describing him as "eccentric" for wearing turquoise socks.
The imminent promotion of French President Nicolas Sarkzoy's son Jean to head a government agency has provoked outrage in France and abroad, where international media have piled scorn upon Sarkozy senior's latest move.
In what is seen as a victory for press freedom in the UK, lawyers for an oil trading firm which allegedly dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast have withdrawn an attempt to prevent the media from publishing an MP’s question tabled in parliament.
