2005-2014

New York, October 15, 2007—A story describing purported late-night outings involving President Abdoulaye Wade led authorities in the capital, Dakar, to arrest a journalist last week, according to local journalists and news reports. A reporter involved in the story is wanted by police and has gone into hiding. Papa Moussa Guèye, director of the private newspaper L'Exclusif—the only daily based in...

BCHR has learned that the Bahraini authorities have taken measures to block access by people in Bahrain to the website of the HAQ movement ( http://www.haaq.org ). The HAQ Movement for Liberties and Democracy is a popular civic organization, established in November 2005, calling for respect for rights and democratization in Bahrain. HAQ and other popular organisations are not registered under the...

(Adil Soz/IFEX) - Saida Kurbonova, editor-in-chief of the "Ovoza" newspaper, and two of the newspaper's journalists, Mukhaiyo Nozimova and Farangis Nabiyeva, are facing charges under Article 135 ("slander contained in public speeches"), Article 136 ("insult contained in public speeches") and Article 144 ("illegal collection and distribution of private information") of the Criminal Code. The...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders welcomes the arrest of Wensley Boshomme, a gang member also known as "Zachary Occeda" and "Bertold," who is suspected of participating in the July 2005 murder of Jacques Roche, the head of the arts and culture section of the daily "Le Matin". Boshomme was arrested in a joint operation by police and members of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has supported the Thai Parliament's decision not to extend its lèse majesté laws, which restrict media coverage of issues involving the royal family and advisors. Thailand already has severe lèse majesté laws to protect the royal family from criticism or attack. Any journalist in breach of the laws faces a prison term of up to fifteen...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, October 15, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of Khin Mar Lar, the wife of award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Thaung Tun. Khin Mar Lar was arrested on September 25 in her family home in Amarapura, a suburb of Mandalay, by police looking for Thaung Tun, according to the U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB). Tun, who is also known as...

Every edition of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is to be made available via a newly launched online digital archive. The first phase of the Guardian News & Media archive, containing the Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and The Observer from 1900 to 1975, will launch on November 3. It will contain exact replicas of the original newspapers, both as full pages and individual articles. and will be...

Reporters Without Borders condemns the accusation of “liar” and other charges made by President Alvaro Uribe against leading journalist Daniel Coronell in an argument on the air on radio La FM on 9 October. Coronell afterwards received death threats in an email signed by the paramilitary group called the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles), a predatory group still active in the north of the country. The...

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the arrest yesterday of journalist Emadeddin Baghi on a charge of “propaganda against the government.” Baghi is a leading advocate of the rights of prisoners of conscience in Iran. “Baghi’s arrest is an example of the strategy of harassment and pressure being used against journalists by the Iranian authorities, who are trying to silence the growing...

The team leading the Fox Business Network into battle with CNBC, the entrenched leader in cable business news, has made no secret that it intends to do in the realm of business news exactly what the Fox News Channel did in general news. As in: conquer. And even before today’s premiere, there are already indications of just how fiercely the battle will be waged. In a pep talk to his troops Friday...