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Radio journalist Oswaldo Pereyra Moreno was on Wednesday sentenced to one year in prison on criminal defamation charges in San Lorenzo, northern Peru, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The charges against Pereyra, host of the show 'Hora 13' on Radio Macarena, stemmed from a September 2009 broadcast about an illegal abortion allegedly given to an unnamed 14-year-old girl in a...

A suspended prison sentence was handed to a Gabonese journalist this week over an article raising questions about the unsolved murder of a government official, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On Monday, a criminal court in the capital, Libreville, convicted Jonas Moulenda, a reporter with the state-owned daily L’Union, on charges of criminal defamation and gave him a...

An Indonesian newspaper reporter in the western province of Aceh has had to go into hiding after being threatened and beaten by an army officer over a report about illegal logging, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The reporter, who just uses the name Ahmadi, works for the local daily Harian Aceh. “It is unacceptable just days after World Environment Day on June 5 that a journalist is...

Istanbul’s Yargıtay High Court handed down on Friday a 15-month prison sentence to Turkish journalist Irfan Aktan, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Aktan was found guilty of “producing terrorist propaganda” in an article published in an issue of the biweekly Express in October 2009. The article described scepticism among Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members toward a...

Two newspapers in sudan failed to appear on newsstands over the weekend, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Sudanese authorities blocked printing of the opposition weekly Al-Maidan late Saturday after its staff failed to provide security personnel with an advance copy of the paper, Al-Maidan journalist Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir told CPJ. Abdelgadir said government...

Veteran Zambian Editor Fred M’membe was sent to prison Friday following his sentencing for contempt of court sparked by an op-ed on the state’s prosecution of a journalist, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Having convicted M’membe earlier this week, Magistrate David Simusamba sentenced the the editor-in-chief of Zambia’s largest newspaper, The Post, to four months in prison...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has denounced Israel’s editing and distribution of footage confiscated from foreign journalists aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla that was raided on Monday. On Wednesday, the Israel Defence Forces spokesman’s office released edited portions of confiscated video on its YouTube channel, where the footage was labeled as “captured.” The Foreign Press Association...

Armenian authorities have detained Ani Gevorgian, a journalist for the pro-opposition daily Haykakan Zhanamak, after she was arrested on assignment on Monday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Police in capital Yerevan arrested Gevorgian as she was covering a sit-in at Liberty Square being staged by activists with the Armenian National Congress, Anna Akopyan, Haykakan...

The police on Wednesday closed down the Bengali-language, pro-opposition daily Amar Desh based in capital Dhaka, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Police cited supposed publishing irregularities when they arrested acting editor Mahmudur Rahman early Wednesday, news reports said, but the shutdown appeared to be politically motivated. On Tuesday, the newspaper’s publisher, Hashmat...

Ten Radio Fahazavana employees, including six journalists, were placed in pre-trial detention in a prison in Madagascar on May 27 on charges of threatening state security and inciting revolt, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). They had been held in police custody since a May 20 raid on the station, which has been closed. “Radio Fahazavana’s employees have the right to a trial as soon as...