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27 August 2009
Mozambique newspaper editor Carlos Cardoso's convicted murderer nabbed in South Africa

Mozambique newspaper editor Carlos Cardoso's convicted murderer nabbed in South Africa

Anibal Dos Santos Junior, also known as Anibalzinho, the fugitive killer of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, has been recaptured in South Africa. Mozambican police travelled Thursday to Pretoria to bring Dos Santos back to finish serving a 30-year sentence for Cardoso’s November 2000 murder. Dos Santos has escaped three times since he was first arrested for Cardoso’s murder. His most...

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27 August 2009
Pentagon hired controversial PR firm to screen journalists covering conflict in Afghanistan

Pentagon hired controversial PR firm to screen journalists covering conflict in Afghanistan

Many embedded journalists are being screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the US military in a positive light, the Stars and Stripes newspaper has reported. Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper partly funded by the Pentagon but editorially independent, said private contractors had been...

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27 August 2009

Georgian journalist released from prison after full four-year term for alleged ‘extortion’

Georgian authorities on Wednesday released journalist Shalva Ramishvili from prison, after he served a full four-year term for alleged blackmail, according to the International Press Institute (IPI). Ramishvili, a former reporter for - and part owner of - TV broadcaster ‘202’, has always protested his innocence, claiming his conviction was punishment for his criticism of Georgian President Mikhail...

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27 August 2009

IFJ opposes repressive amendments to media law in Serbia

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have urged Serbian lawmakers to throw out a package of controversial draft amendments to the Public Information Act proposed by the government of Serbia. In a letter to the President of Serbia, Boris Tadić, IFJ President Jim Boumelha urged him to withdraw the amendments. He wrote: "We are concerned...

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27 August 2009

"Extreme pressure" from government and military forces Pakistani daily to close down

An Urdu-languge daily Asaap has closed down after it came under “tremendous pressure” from the Pakistan government and the security forces which were controlling its offices both inside and out. Editor, Abid Mir, speaking on the telephone from Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan told Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) that he had “published the last edition on August 18” as a result of the...

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27 August 2009

Investigative journalist’s car bombed in Corsica

The car of an investigative journalist, Enrico Porsia, was bombed in the early hours of Wednesday outside the house in Conca, near the southern Corsican town of Porto-Vecchio, where he is staying while on vacation, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The explosion caused considerable damage to the car but no injuries. An Italian national who was once a member of the Red Brigades, Porsia...

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27 August 2009

Mauritanian editor jailed for violating 'decent behaviour' after article on sex education

A Mauritanian court has sentenced an online editor to six months in prison, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). A court in capital Nouakchott found Hanevy Ould Dehah, editor of the online publication Taqadoumy, guilty of acts "contrary to Islam and decent behavior" after he published an article about sex education, his lawyer Brahim Ould Ebetty told Agence France-Presse (AFP)...

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27 August 2009

Third journalist murdered in Bukavu region of DR Congo since 2007

Following the brutal murder on Sunday of radio journalist Bruno Koko Chirambiza in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo—the third journalist to be slain in the restive region since 2007—the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Congolese authorities to end the alarming pattern of impunity in journalist murders. Eight unidentified assailants in civilian clothing attacked Chirambiza...

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27 August 2009

Somaliland cracks down on independent media

The government of Somaliland has launched a crackdown on independent journalists in the breakaway country. On Sunday, the Sahil regional court in the costal city of Berbera sentenced the editor-in-chief of the online publication Berberanews, Mohamed Said, in absentia to three years in jail on defamation charges, according to local journalists. Said has been in hiding since mid-August. Judge Osman...

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27 August 2009

Attackers force two Honduran broadcasters off the air

Masked assailants on Monday stormed a radio station and a television outlet critical of the country's interim government, forcing the broadcasters off the air in the latest attack on the Honduran media, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. At 8 p.m., eight individuals wearing ski masks forced their way into the Tegucigalpa offices shared by Radio Globo and Canal 36, local press...

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