2005-2014

An Iranian newspaper journalist has been executed for allegedly associating with a militant group and threatening national security, officials in Iran said Tuesday, according to a report in the Guardian. Yaghoob Mirnehad, a reporter for the Tehran-based Mardomsalari newspaper, was executed along with another man on Monday, a spokesman for the judiciary said. Some background: Mirnehad, who was...

A reporter for a local Thai-language daily and a television station was shot dead inside his home on August 1 in Nakorn Sri Thammarat province, according to the hai Journalists Association (TJA). Police identified the victim as Athiwat Chaiyanurat, a reporter for Matichon newspaper and stringer for the army-owned Channel 7 television station. TJA condemned the killing of Athiwat as a reckless and...

An Ethiopian judge overseeing the high-profile trial of an imprisoned pop singer jailed the editor of an independent weekly for contempt of court on august 4. The contempt charge came after the weekly published an interview with the singer's lawyer, according to local journalists. Mesfin Negash, editor-in-chief of the current affairs weekly Addis Neger, could be sentenced to as many as six months...

Voice of the People, a radio station operated by the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was closed down by Hamas in Gaza City on August 2. "The Islamist party Hamas must stop arbitrarily targeting news media just because they do not blindly relay its propaganda," Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said. "Press freedom is under serious threat in the Gaza Strip...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned a shooting attack on journalist Amanaj Khalil, of the weekly Rudaw, on August 1 in Kani Kardatt, a region to the west of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Khalil, who was not injured, had reportedly been getting threats because of one of his articles. "This attempt to murder Khalil should be taken seriously by the authorities in Kurdistan," Paris-based...

The International Federation of Journalists has condemned changes being made in the management of major broadcast media in Korea which amount to political interference. According to IFJ affiliate, the Korean Association of Journalists (JAK), the government of Lee Myung Bak, which took over in February, is trying to manipulate media to suit their political tastes by appointing executives to state...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on Senegalese authorities to put an end to the attacks on media and independent journalists and to build a new relationship with journalists. The call came after a police raid of a printing house to prevent distribution of the newspaper L'As and the interrogation of the paper's publisher. On Thursday, Mamadou Thierno Talla, L'As Director...

Rinat Kazakbaev, accused of murdering journalist Yury Aleksandrov and his wife, was sentenced to a life imprisonment according to the Article 97 of the Kyrgyz Criminal Code for the “atrocious murder of two or more persons”. According to 24.kg website, the high-profile case ended with the guilty verdict of the Alamudun district court judge Tolomush Asylov on august 4. The court has also decided to...

The Editors Guild of India has expressed shock at the pressure tactics being adopted by the Bharatiya Janata Party against CNN IBN Television channel. Criticising BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu for declaring that his party would boycott CNN IBN, if the channel does not immediately telecast the tapes of the sting operation carried out in concert with the BJP MPs in New Delhi on Juy 22 in connection with...

A journalist of a local daily was shot dead on Friday in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa town, the police said, according to a report in Hindustan Times. Deepak Mishra, who was working as the chief of bureau of a leading Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, which is published from Jabalpur, was going in a car with some unidentified people when gunshots were heard near Rewa bus stop. "It appears that Mishra had some...