2005-2014

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the action of the Afghan authorities in holding three journalists for two days after they visited an area controlled by the Taliban in the south of the country. The three journalists - Abdul Wadood Hejran of the privately-owned TV station Ariana, Aziz Ahmad Tassal of the journalists' organisation IWPR and BBC stringer Aziz Ahmad Shafe - were arrested...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentence for Kurdish-Iranian journalist Adnan Hassanpour for "spying." The ruling was issued on 22 October 2007, but was not revealed until this week. The court quashed the conviction of another journalist convicted in the same case, Abdolvahed "Hiva" Botimar, on the grounds of procedural...

(RSF/IFEX) - On 6 November 2007, two plainclothes police officers disrupted an interview with demobilised soldiers by "Economist" reporter James Miles and his assistant Jin Dan from the British weekly's Beijing bureau in Yantai, Shandong province, eastern China. The two had been followed by an unmarked car as soon as they arrived in Yantai the previous day. Two police officers who had been...

Reporters Without Borders today urged the authorities to stop the prosecution of Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani, a freelance journalist and former editor of the now closed weekly Al-Shoura, on a charge of “publishing information liable to undermine army morale” under article 126 of the criminal code, for which the maximum penalty is death. “Khaiwani is critical of the government headed by President Ali...

Ifra will launch a vertical search engine for the newspaper industry in January, its CEO claimed. Opening the Beyond the Printed Word conference, in Dublin today, Reiner Mittelbach told delegates that the engine would help interested parties easily find news, information and reports on the newspaper business. Ifra's project manager, Dr Amrei Wiederin, later told Journalism.co.uk that the project...

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Australia's Test cricket season opened with international fans unable to follow the action after organisers locked global news agencies out of the ground in Brisbane. The row also left Australia's largest media organisation, News Limited, unable to cover the first day of the Australia-Sri Lanka Test, although it secured a breakthrough with Cricket Australia later in the...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the demand from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague to question eight Croatian journalists over publication of confidential information related to the prosecution of Ante Gotovina for war crimes. "We are deeply disturbed at the prospect of the Tribunal questioning journalists for...

The Government of Pakistan has called for talks with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), to discuss the media crisis in the country since the Government imposed emergency decrees at the weekend. Pakistan’s Minister for Information, Mohammad Ali Durrani, will meet senior officers of the PFUJ and the Rawalpindi...

New York, November 8, 2007—The Pakistani government is continuing efforts to silence the press by harassing journalists, attempting to shut down printing presses, and censoring articles critical of the government, local journalists told CPJ today. News editors at the Urdu-language Daily Ausaf in Islamabad and at the English-language Express in Lahore said their papers were given written orders to...

NEW YORK -- A few years ago, it might have seemed far-fetched to imagine representatives from traditional media stalwarts like The New York Times and MTV Networks urging others to follow their lead in adapting to survive an evolving online environment. But the times, they are a-changing. Here at the ad:tech New York conference today, exhortations came from MTV, NYTimes.com and other Web media...