2005-2014

The US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp is the worst prison ever, Sudanese al-Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj who was released from the prison days ago said Monday, according to a Xinhua report. In a speech broadcast live on Sudanese television, ai-Haj, who returned to Sudan on Friday, said he spent 2,340 days in the "most heinous prison mankind has ever known," and that jailers there insulted...

The Chennai police have arrested three persons including a godman for assualting a journalist, who tried to take photographs of their ashram in Adambakkam on Thursday, the Times of India has reported. The police arrested godman Vikraman and ashram employees Ravichandran and Selvam in connection with the assualt. Police said Vikraman has been running the ashram in Thillai Ganga Nagar near...

Gunmen dragged a woman freelance journalist from a taxi in Iraq's northern restive city of Mosul on Sunday and killed her in broad daylight, a local police officer told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Tharwat Abdul-Wahab, 30, was on her way to work when a group of gunmen pulled her out of the vehicle and shot her in the head in eastern Mosul's Al-Baqar neighbourhood, the policeman said on condition of...

Fiji's military government deported the Australian publisher of Rupert Murdoch's Fiji Times newspaper on Friday, after declaring him a threat to national security, according to Reuters. The move is the latest crackdown on the media in Fiji since military commander Frank Bainimarama seized power in a bloodless coup in late 2006, and comes amid growing international criticism of the slow progress in...

The Confederation of Newspaper and New Agency Employees Organisations on Friday said it would seek the intervention of top leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. The confederation at its meeting Friday criticised the decision of wage board chairman Justice K Narayan Kurup to postpone the meeting and decided that it would seek the intervention...

To mark World Press Freedom Day, Moroccan journalist Mustafa Hormatallah began a three-day hunger strike on Friday to protest his imprisonment in Casablanca, while journalists led by the National Syndicate of the Moroccan Press planned to stage a sit-in on Saturday. Hormatallah, a journalist with the independent weekly Al-Watan Al An, was sentenced in August 2007 to eight months in jail, and his...

Democracies from Colombia to India and Russia to the Philippines are among the worst countries in the world at prosecuting journalists' killers, according to the Impunity Index, a list of countries where governments have consistently failed to solve journalists’ murders. The list has been compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The countries with the worst records for impunity—Iraq

The Israeli military said Wednesday that initial findings from its investigation into the killing of a Reuters news agency cameraman indicated that troops did not realize they were firing at a journalist, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Palestinian cameraman Fadel Shana, 23, was killed April 16 by tank fire while covering fighting between Israeli troops and Gaza militants. His colleague...

Fiji's military government defied a High Court order and deported the Australian publisher of the South Pacific country's leading newspaper Friday, continuing a campaign of media intimidation it began within days of seizing power, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The coup-installed government said Fiji Times publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to national security who breached his work...

A fast track court in Udaipur on Wednesday sentenced a guest house owner to life imprisonment for rape of a 40-year-old British journalist last December and fined him Rs25,000 while also convicting him for house-trespass to commit an offence punishable with life in prison, the Hindu has reported. Parbat Singh, owner of Pardesi Guest House in Ambamata area of Udaipur, criminally assaulted the...