Iran  WITNESSES FLEE - Concern about exodus of journalists, as regime steps up
27.11.2009 - Reporters Without Borders keeps on getting requests for help from terrified Iranian journalists who have been forced to flee their country after receiving summonses from the authorities. With 32 of their colleagues now detained in Iran and with a president and a Supreme Leader bent on suppressing all criticism, around 30 journalists have fled since last June’s disputed elections.

Iran
Three more journalists arrested, relatives and lawyers subject to intimidation
17.11.2009 - Journalists are continuing to be arrested five months after the start of the demonstrations against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed reelection. Three more have been arrested in the past couple of weeks while those who defend the 34 detained journalists and bloggers are being subjected to increased intimidation.

GRENADA
GRENADA TODAY TO BE LIQUIDATED AS A RESULT OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER’S LIBEL SUIT
28.10.2009 - The Grenada Today weekly is apparently about to disappear as a result of a drawn-out libel suit by one of Grenada’s former prime ministers, Keith Mitchell. High court judge Claire Henry ordered its liquidation this week after the owners failed to reach an agreement with Mitchell over payment of an exorbitant damages award.

SRI LANKA
New threats to privately-owned print media
27.10.2009 - Reporters Without Borders urges the Sri Lankan authorities to take all necessary measures to investigate threatening letters received six days ago by Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushtaq, two journalists who work for the Leader Publications media group. “We will slice you up if you do not stop your writing,” the letters said.

SAUDI ARABIA
Woman journalist to get 60 lashes for link to TV programme about sex
26.10.2009 - Reporters Without Borders condemns the sentence of 60 lashes passed by a judge in the western city of Jeddah on 24 October on journalist Rozanna al-Yami because she worked for the Lebanese Broadcast Corporation (LBC), a satellite TV station that shocked conservative Saudis last July by broadcasting an interview with a Saudi man talking openly about his sex life.