The Egyptian authorities are threatening to dismantle one of IFEX's members in Egypt, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), for having accepted unauthorised foreign funds to hold a regional conference on the right to access information, report EOHR, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN).

The Egyptian authorities are threatening to dismantle one of IFEX's members in Egypt, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), for having accepted unauthorised foreign funds to hold a regional conference on the right to access information, report EOHR, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN).

Suwicha Thakor is currently serving a 10-year jail sentence for posting a video of the King on the Internet. The father of three told Reporters Without Borders (RSF) from prison, "I am not a problem for the country or its security. I am in prison for nothing."

Three of Tunisia's most recognised - and victimised - free expression defenders have been awarded this year's International Publishers Association (IPA) Freedom to Publish Prize.

Three of Tunisia's most recognised - and victimised - free expression defenders have been awarded this year's International Publishers Association (IPA) Freedom to Publish Prize.

A Chinese writer who has been in jail since December for authoring a petition for human rights has been awarded this year's PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 1 May 2009, journalist Pedro Dantas, of "O Estado de São Paulo" newspaper, was harassed by security guards while he was covering an inspection of Rio de Janeiro's sports facilities being carried out by a delegation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Rio de Janeiro has put in a bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

(CEMESP/IFEX) - On 5 May 2009, reporter Solomon Ware of Truth FM Radio station in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, was physically assaulted by the president pro tempore of the Liberian Senate, Cletus Wotorson, as the reporter tried to ask him a few questions concerning the abrupt adjournment of the Liberian Senate.

(SEAPA/TJA/IFEX) - SEAPA and its founding member in Thailand, the Thai Journalists Association (TJA), and other Thai media groups issued a joint statement on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - "ARTICLE 19 is dismayed and deeply saddened to learn that the appeal for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi has been rejected yet again by her captors. The governments that continue to support the Burmese authorities, particularly China, India, and the ASEAN members, through their indifference and ineffectiveness, each bears responsibility for the bricks and mortar of Aung San Suu Kyi's prison," said Dr. Agnes Callamard, ARTICLE 19 Executive Director.

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 29 April 2009, Héctor Molina, a photographer for "Pico Bolívar" newspaper, was threatened by a group of hooded men affiliated with the Tupamaro Movement (an organisation that is linked to President Hugo Chávez's government), while he was covering a student protest in the city of Mérida, central Venezuela. The assailants took his camera.

In a speech on April 29, 2009, Hun Sen said that it would be "as easy as ABC" to have the parliamentary immunity lifted for Mu Sochua, a National Assembly member.

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 5, 2009 - Authorities in Rostov-on-Don must launch a criminal investigation into a possible attack on the editor-in-chief of an independent newspaper who was found unconscious with a head wound in the early morning of April 30.

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is extremely relieved to learn that Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who is in a Tehran jail on a spying charge, has ended her hunger strike. The press freedom organisation continues to call for the appeal against her conviction to be given a fair hearing and not any sham proceedings.

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 5, 2009 - A Mexican journalist who was critical of local authorities in the northern state of Durango was fatally shot by unidentified assailants on Sunday. In a piece published a day before the killing, the reporter wrote that he had been threatened by local government officials. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on local and federal authorities to thoroughly and expeditiously investigate the crime.

(IFJ/IFEX) - 5 May 2009 - The International Federation of Journalists and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), today condemned the decision of the Helsinki Court of Appeal in Finland against a photographer who took pictures of a protest demonstration during the Asia-Europe trade summit meeting in Helsinki on September 9, 2006.

Representatives from 11 countries in Eastern Africa have resolved to carry out a campaign against repressive media laws and the culture of impunity in the region.

In a letter to the prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, CPJ calls attention to the deterioration of press freedom in Kurdistan and the alarming wave of politically motivated criminal lawsuits filed against mostly independent journalists, as well as blatant violations of the region's new press law.

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of three journalists in Tehran on 1 May 2009, as May Day demonstrations were taking place. "The authorities continue to crack down on journalists," Reporters Without Borders said. "These arrests, which were made without a warrant and without good reason, were illegal."

(FLIP/IFEX) - 4 May 2009 - On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, FLIP presents its Access to Information Manual. The publication contains practical and useful tools for journalists and citizens for finding and accessing information.