Full Coverage: Freedom of expression

30.07.2007 Managing editor of the banned Daily News is reportedly battling for his life in a Johannesburg (South Africa) hospital after he was shot and seriously injured by a gang of three assailants on July 23, 2007

30.07.2007 Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam encourages the media to encompass a classical model of mass media and national development.

26.07.2007 Pakistan 's Superintendent of Central Prison in the southern port city of Karachi spends sleepless nights trying to figure out how to save the life of 107 inmates - all of who face the death sentence. Human rights organisations in the country chose to remain mum on the issue.

24.07.2007 Access to the Red Mosque in Pakistan was denied to US news channel CNN and its journalists were not invited for a press conference addressed by the Pakistani Prime Minister. The decision was taken by the government in aftermath of the battle in the Mosque.

24.07.2007 Police in Zambia's capital city of Lusaka blocked Q-FM, a private radio station from mounting their Outside Broadcasting (OB) equipment to cover live a demonstration organised by the OASIS forum and a Collaborative Group on the constitution, outside the gates of Parliament.

20.07.2007 On a superficial level, the media enjoys considerable freedom in Africa. Much of the media regularly carries a range of opinions, including strong criticism of government policies and debates on different issues

19.07.2007 Swazi Parliament is seeking to sanction the editor of the privately owned Times of Swaziland Sunday newspaper, Mbongeni Mbingo, for expressing himself about the affairs of the House of Assembly in a recent commentary in his publication.

17.07.2007 Police in Harare arrested The Standard Photojournalist, Boldwin Hungwe, whilst taking pictures of events as people scrambled for goods at South African owned Makro shop after an invasion by the price control police.

11.07.2007 Parliament in Swaziland sought to sanction the editor of the privately owned Times of Swaziland Sunday newspaper for expressing himself about the affairs of the House of Assembly in a recent commentary in his publication.

05.07.2007 Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Njabulo Mabuza, banned the media from accessing the Mbabane Government Hospital, Swaziland biggest hospital, in search for news.