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Belarus

Belarus targets leading opposition news website Nasha Niva

Belarusian authorities have blocked the website of a leading online media outlet and detained several of its journalists.

Germany

Exiled Turkish journalist attacked outside home in Germany

An outspoken critic of Turkish President Erdogan was assaulted by several people outside his home in Berlin, German police have said.

Belarus

Belarus: Journalist Roman Protasevich moved from jail to house arrest

Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday called moving Pratasevich and Sapega to house arrest “good news,” but stressed it is not the end. “House arrest is not freedom, they're still facing charges, their every step is still being watched"

Slovakia

Jan Kuciak: Murdered journalist's father welcomes retrial order

Slovakia's Supreme Court said a lower court did not assess evidence properly when it acquitted a businessman and his associate of murdering reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova.

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Belarus

UN Security Council to hold 'closed door' meeting on Belarus plane

The UN Security Council is set to hold a closed door meeting on Belarus' diversion of a Ryanair plane. France, Ireland and Estonia will raise the issue.

Spain

Spanish journalists and Irishman killed in Burkina Faso after ambush

Two Spanish journalists and one Irish national were killed in Burkina Faso after an anti-poaching patrol was ambushed.

Greece

Greek crime reporter shot dead outside home in Athens

Giorgos Karaivaz was found dead, shot multiple times, beside his car in the Greek capital.

Algeria

Algeria frees imprisoned journalist and pro-democracy activists

The release of Drareni and pro-democracy activists advocating for reform in Algeria is being seen as a step to appease protesters in the country.

Slovenia

EU condemns Slovenian PM Janez Jansa over 'insulting' journalist

The European Commission has condemned Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa’s criticism of a reporter, who wrote a piece suggesting that media freedom was under pressure in the country.

Denmark

Danish submarine killer sentenced to 21 months for prison escape

Peter Madsen briefly escaped from a Copenhagen prison in October after threatening staff and police with a fake gun and explosives.

Ukraine

Ukrainian police find new evidence in Pavel Sheremet murder

Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in Kyiv in July 2016. His murder has never been solved.

Turkey

Turkey releases two Russian television journalists after arrests

A Turkish court has released two Russian journalists after they were arrested last week on suspicion of filming a drone factory without authorisation.

Slovenia

Slovenia considers suspending funding to national press agency

Slovenia's prime minister Janez Janša has previously expressed dissatisfaction with the Slovenian Press Agency, but he stated that "no such decision" has yet been made.

Denmark

Danish submarine killer recaptured after prison break attempt

Peter Madsen was jailed for life for the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his homemade submarine in 2017

Sweden

Dane admits killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall for first time

Up until now, Peter Madsen had maintained that Kim Wall's death on his homemade submarine was an accident.

Australia

Last two Australian journalists leave China after 'harassment'

The reporters had been sheltering in diplomatic compounds after police demanded interviews with them and temporarily blocked their departures.

United Kingdom

Man arrested in connection with Lyra McKee murder in Northern Ireland

The so-called New IRA paramilitary group said it was involved in the 29 year-old journalist's killing as she was caught in the cross fire.

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Statue of famous Italian journalist vandalised in Milan

Indro Montanelli, who died in 2001, acknowledged having had a 12-year-old Eritrean bride while stationed in the Italian colony in the 1930s.

World News

Russian journalist Ilya Azar freed early from jail after lone protest

Authorities in Moscow have released Russian journalist Ilya Azar early after he was jailed for staging a one-man protest against the detention of another activist.

Europe News

Slovakia elections: How has the murder of a journalist affected polls?

When Slovaks head to the polls this Saturday they face multiple issues - but as well as usual campaign issues of the economy and migration, the rule of law and corruption hang over the choice at the ballot box.