2005-2014

Egyptian prosecutors on Wednesday questioned the editor of a prominent independent newspaper about his paper's recent reports on the health of the country's 79-year-old leader, President Hosni Mubarak. Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent daily Al-Dustour, was questioned for several hours by prosecutors Wednesday outside Cairo on accusations that he published reports “likely to disturb public...

Egyptian prosecutors on Wednesday questioned the editor of a prominent independent newspaper about his paper's recent reports on the health of the country's 79-year-old leader, President Hosni Mubarak. Ibrahim Eissa and one of his journalists, Sahar Zaki, were sentenced on June 29, 2006 to a year in prison and a fine of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (1,450 euros) on charges of libelling the president...

New Delhi, September 7: A Week after his sting on a teacher’s purported sex racket, Prakash Singh, the reporter of Live India news channel, was today arrested. Singh, whose report aired on August 30 led to violence near the school in Daryaganj, has been charged with fabricating evidences, cheating and criminal conspiracy to show that Uma Khurana forced her girl students into prostitution. The...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Vogue magazine, the style bible for fashionistas worldwide, is launching an edition in India this month which is set to give the country's wealthy jet-setters a local twist on fashion and the good life. The magazine marks publisher Conde Nast's first foray in the Asian subcontinent and is another sign of the growing interest in Asia's third-biggest economy, which has a large...

The UN Human Rights Council is “still badly falling down on its job” after only a year in existence, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said today. It called for the system of UN special rapporteurs to investigate human rights in individual countries to be maintained. RSF said that the mandates of the rapporteurs on Cuba and Belarus, two of the world’s worst violators of press freedom, had not been...

Community radio station Radio Colombe was raided by rebel soldiers on Saturday night in Rutshuru, north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the station’s director, Hubert Furugupa. A group of armed men aligned with rebel general Laurent Nkunda abducted two reporters and stole radio equipment and a generator from the station, according to local journalists and human rights...

The many twists and turns in the Anna Politkovskaya case since last week’s announcement of the arrest of ten suspects in the October 2006 murder of the Russian journalist are feeding doubts over the capacity and determination of the Russian authorities to solve it, nearly a year after the brutal killing of the journalist. “Attempts to discredit the case, orchestrated since Prosecutor-General

MUMBAI (Reuters) - More than 100 new TV channels are scheduled to launch in India over the next 12 months, delivering ever smaller audiences to broadcasters and nudging up their cost of distribution and marketing. With the total number of channels on air set to hit 700 by 2009, broadcasters will be forced to slash advertising rates and spend heavily on improving technology to ensure their channels...

This was one sting that did not smell right on Day One. A week after, it stinks. The police on Thursday arrested a woman, who played a critical role in the sting on a government schoolteacher, charging her with cheating. The accused, Rashmi Singh, had posed as a schoolgirl alleging that teacher Uma Khurana pushed her and other girls into prostitution. All this was said, recorded on film and...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo to release Noëlla Mwambikwa, a journalist with Congolese National Radio and Television station (RTNC), who has been detained since her arrest by army intelligence on Tuesday for alleged links with a rebel leader. “We condemn the illegal detention of Noëlla and the continuing...