2005-2014

Despite the arrest of a suspect in the murder of New Zealand photojournalist Trent Keegan, questions about the killing remain unanswered, New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Thursday. Kenyan police are holding a suspect in Keegan's murder, a Kenyan police spokesman told CPJ. The police have not released details, but spokesman Eric Kiraithe told CPJ that police have not found...

Sazak Durdymuradov, a contributing reporter for the Turkmen Service of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), in the Western city of Bakhaden, has been abducted, tortured and subjected to forcible psychiatric hospitalisation. According to RFE/RL, Durdymuradov was seized by agents of the secret police (MNB) from his Bakhaden home on June 20 and forcibly taken to a local psychiatric...

A Hyderabad court Thursday granted bail to the Editor and two other journalists of Telugu daily Andhra Jyothi who were arrested for allegedly hurling casteist remarks at a Dalit leader. While Editor K Srinivas was granted unconditional bail, the reporters M Vamsi Krishna and T Srinivas were given conditional bail and asked to report to Jubilee Hills police station once a week. After hearing the...

The arrests of Andhra Jyothi editor K Srinivas and two reporters of the daily has evoked strong reactionsfrom the media and political parties alike in Andhra Pradesh, says a report in the Hindu. Srinivas and the two journalists were produced before the III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate well past Tuesday midnight and remanded to 15-day judicial custody. They were shifted to the...

A Baku court Tuesday convicted the editor of a small, minority newspaper on a treason charge and to sentence him to 10 years in prison. Novruzali Mamedov, editor of now-defunct Talyshi Sado (Voice of the Talysh), was tried in closed-door proceedings that began in March, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Judge Shakir Alekserov of the Court for Grave Crimes read...

Systematic harassment of the Association of Iranian Journalists by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government took a new turn on June 24 when Labour Minister Mohammad Jahromi threatened to dissolve the organisation. "This is yet another attempt by the Iranian authorities to silence those who defend free expression in Iran," Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said. "It is vital that...

Three rights organisations - ANHRI, the Arab Council for the Support of a Fair Trial and the Hisham Mubarak Law Center - submitted a petition to a deputy demanding an investigation into the brutal assault of journalist Kamal Murad of "Al-Fajr" newspaper by three police officers on June 17. The police officers, who are from Rahmanya Centre in Buhaira Governate in the Delta region, badly beat Murad...

Rafael Velasco Salas, deputy director of the bimonthly publication Zona Norte and correspondent in Chiapas for the Oaxaca-based newspaper Noticias, Voz e Imagen, was assaulted and threatened with murder by Humberto Cernuda Hernández, brother of Josefa Cernuda - the president of the Family Services Unit (Desarrollo Integral de la Familia, DIF) of the city of Pichucalco in the state of Chiapas...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Tuesday welcomed a renewed call by European parliamentarians for Ukraine to bring to justice "those who instigated and organised the murder of Heorhiy Gongadze." The call was made by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg who today expressed "deep concern" that Ukraine...

The Indian newspaper society (INS) and Editors Guild of India on Wednesday condemned the attack on three journalists and the office of Malayala Manorama in Kerala allegedly by SFI activists and asked the state government to take strong action against the guilty, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. In a statement, INS president Bahubali S Shah said the three journalists and a driver were...