2005-2014

(FMM/IFEX) - 17 October 2007, Colombo, Sri Lanka - It was reported to the Free Media Movement (FMM) that on two recent occasions Sri Lankan security forces openly censored media and barred photojournalists from carrying out their duties. FMM expresses its concern that such actions are detrimental to freedom of expression and further erode media freedom in Sri eLanka. In one incident, security...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 18 September 2007, Judge Haydee Monzón, of the First Criminal Transitory Court of Lima, convicted the editor of the newspaper "La República", Gustavo Mohme Seminario, as well as cartoonist Carlos Tovar Samanez ("Carlín") and journalists Ángel Páez and Edmundo Cruz, of aggravated defamation. The ruling imposes a two-year suspended prison sentence and the payment of 50,000 soles (US...

Hamas has decided to issue its own press cards to journalists operating in the Gaza Strip - a move that has drawn sharp criticism from the majority of Palestinian journalists. Hamas's decision is seen by many Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip as an attempt to restrict their work and control news coverage from that area. "Now Hamas will decide who can work as a journalist and who can't,"...

Eritrea has replaced North Korea in last place in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world published Tuesday by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) for the sixth year running. Outside Europe — in which the top 14 countries are located — no region of the world has been spared censorship or violence towards journalists. “There is nothing surprising about

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, October 16, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists released the following statement today after Chadian authorities issued the second state of emergency since May including a blanket suppression of media across the country. "We are deeply concerned by the state of emergency in Chad which reintroduces blanket censorship of the press," said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator...

BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi journalists were killed in separate attacks Sunday, marking one of the deadliest days for reporters covering war-torn country in nearly a year. Four reporters for Iraqi media organizations were reported shot to death in ambushes near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Previously reported was the death of Salih Saif Aldin, a correspondent for The Washington Post who apparently was shot...

CONSUMERS who get their news from the internet are likely to trust a blog for reliability as much as a mainstream media site, the competition watchdog said today. Graeme Samuel, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman, said a recent report by search engine Technorati showed the number of non-mainstream blogs in the 100 most popular information websites was rising. "What is...

SALIH SAIF ALDIN was one of those extraordinary Iraqis who have responded to war and upheaval in their homeland by becoming journalists. A native of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town and once one of the centers of the Sunni insurgency, he began documenting events there, first for an Iraqi newspaper and then, beginning in January 2004, for The Washington Post. His commitment to the toughest...

Thirteen employees of media organisations have been killed and two disappeared in the past six months in the Western Hemisphere. According to preliminary reports presented Sunday by members of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), media freedom is increasingly under attack in the Western Hemisphere, especially in countries such as Venezuela and Colombia. Final reports will be released

A freelance journalist was shot dead near Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, less than 24 hours after a reporter for the Washington Post was killed in Baghdad. Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo, a 32-year-old freelance reporter, was killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen Tuesday near the city of Kirku, 180 km north of Baghdad. His two bodyguards were injured in the attack. Saif Aldin, an Iraqi...