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She is a fearless journalist, she has endured numerous death threats because of her uncompromising professionalism, and her journey to bring out the truth has been the full of roadblocks. Yet, the passion doesn’t seem to die in the courageous Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, a 44-year-old Mexican journalist. Cacho received Courage Award by International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) recently for her

All four journalists arrested recently have been released by the Senegal government in a bid to “defuse relations" between the press and the government, but the storm has far from blown over. All four were released Thursday. Besides the four arrested journalists, who were all held in detention, a fifth has been facing defamation charges after he published a book that accused employees of

US Internet giant Yahoo has settled a Californian lawsuit brought by the families of journalist Shi Tao and pro-democracy activist and blogger Wang Xiaoning, who were convicted and imprisoned on information which Yahoo! gave the Chinese authorities. Yahoo has agreed to cover the legal costs of the plaintiffs but said details of the settlement were confidential. It said it would work to provide...

The civil war, internal displacement, limited access to information and restrictions on journalists’ freedom of movement have proved to be great obstacles to press freedom in Sri Lanka, particularly in the country’s eastern provinces. These are some of the findings of the fact-finding mission by representatives of the International Press Institute (IPI), the International Federation of

November 14, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Iranian officials have again imprisoned Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, the head of Iran's Democratic Front and the publisher of a now-banned weekly newspaper, "Payam-e Daneshjou-ye Basiji." Tabarzadi, 47, was originally accused by Tehran's Revolutionary Court on charges of forming Iran's Democratic Front, defaming Iran's supreme leader, distributing anti-establishment...

Reporters Without Borders today appealed to the countries taking party in the four-day Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that began yesterday in Rio not to allow the issue of online free expression to be eclipsed by the debate about the United States’ dominant role in Internet governance. Website domain names are managed by ICANN, a California-based non-profit organisation which could in theory...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 9 November 2007, Globovisión television station was accused of inciting the public to commit violence through their coverage of the violent acts against journalists and students during a 7 November march against the constitutional reform. The accusation was filed at the Public Prosecutor's Office by a member of Venezuela's United Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Unido de...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders welcomes the provisional release on 9 November 2007 of Felisberto da Grâça Campos, the editor of the weekly "Semanario Angolense", pending the outcome of his appeal against the eight-month sentence he received on 3 October on charges of defaming, insulting and denigrating a former minister. The judge who tried Grâça Campos originally ruled that he had to...

November 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijan has imprisoned its third journalist in the past month, adding to its reputation as the leading jailer of journalists in Europe and Central Asia. Genimet Zahidov, an editor for the opposition daily "Azadliq" and vocal critic of President Ilham Aliyev's regime, was sentenced and sent to pretrial detention on November 11. He will spend two months in detention...

The now infamous saga highlights the difficulties for U.S. communications companies that do business with China. Just one week after a public shaming before Congress, Yahoo settled on Nov. 13 a civil lawsuit accusing the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet power of cooperating with Chinese authorities in the jailing of journalist Shi Tao for a decade. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. A reporter...