2005-2014

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 16 November 2007, a group of demonstrators, members of the Public Works Construction Worker's Union (Sindicato de Trabajadores de Construcción Civil, STCC), hit journalist Mayra Azán Mestanza as she was covering a protest from inside the offices of the Punchana's District Council, in Loreto region of northern Peru. The demonstrators gathered at the council building's main door to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has protested against the arrest of journalist Slim Boukhdir, who according to latest reports is being held at a police station in the suburbs of Sfax, 231 kilometres south of Tunis. Boukhdir, 39, who ended a two-week hunger strike on 14 November 2007 after the authorities promised that his passport would be restored to him, was arrested on 26 November during...

TEHRAN, Nov. 27 — The Iranian Supreme Court has ordered a new investigation into the death of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who was killed in Tehran in 2003 while in custody, the judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. Zahra Kazemi, a photojournalist who was killed in 2003 after being arrested in Tehran. The spokesman, Alireza Jamshidi, told journalists on Tuesday that the court had objected to...

November 27, 2007 - Declining readership has hit several news journals hard, leading to loss of revenue. This despite the fact that the Burmese military junta has relatively slackened its control over issuing of journal publishing license, editors in Rangoon said. Obtaining a journal publishing license has become relatively easier with the Burmese Information Ministry loosening its tight control...

Baghdad - Unidentified gunmen murdered 11 family members of an Iraqi journalist in east Baghdad, independent Voices of Iraq reported Monday citing a statement by the Iraqi committee to protect journalists. About seven armed men in a civilian car broke into the house of Diyaa al-Wakaz Sunday, shooting dead all his family members including his wife and children, witnesses said. Al-Wakaz, who...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a murder attempt against João Alckmin, presenter of the programme “Showtime” on Rádio Piratininga, who was hurt when an unknown assailant opened fire on him in São José dos Campos, São Paulo state in the southeast. His injuries are not life-threatening. Alckmin, aged 55, came under fire as he walked his dog in the city centre on 22 November. His dog...

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the murder of Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, a correspondent of the national daily Jang, on 23 November in Mirpur Khas, in the southern province of Sindh. His elder brother told the press freedom organisation he was "killed because of his articles criticising the situation of the poor" in the area. "We call on the federal and provincial authorities to quickly...

BAGHDAD: A Turkish journalist who reported that Iraq's Kurdish president personally escorted two rebel commanders to Europe for eventual extradition to Turkey was expelled from northern Iraq on Monday for publishing "false news," the semiautonomous government said. The journalist for Ihlas news agency, Sadiq Kahraman, cited anonymous sources in his Nov. 24 report saying Massoud Barzani had...

New York, November 26, 2007—Brazilian radio host João Alckmin, who reports on corruption in eastern São Paulo state, was shot twice on Thursday; he is in stable condition. The Committee to Protect Journalists today calls on Brazilian authorities to investigate the attack. Alckmin, host of the weekly talk show “Showtime” onlocal Rádio Piratininga, was walking his dog at around 6:30 p.m. in the city...

New York, November 26, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia to immediately launch an investigation to find all those responsible for a vicious attack on three television journalists and a prominent human rights advocate in the early hours on Saturday. Artyom Vysotsky, Stanislav Goryachikh, and Karen Sakhinov of the Moscow...