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Baku appeal court judge Rasul Safarov issued a ruling on 11 July confirming the Sabail district court’s decision to keep newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev in the national security ministry’s detention centre. Fatullayev is serving a 30-month sentence for libel but new terrorism charges were recently brought against him. Four employees of Gundelik Azerbaijan (one of the two newspapers he edits) -...

Salvadorian President Elías Antonio Saca’s has pledged to intervene personally in the case of journalist María Haydee Chicas arrested and held for alleged “terrorist acts.” Saca's promise comes in wake of the appeal made by the El Salvador Association of Journalists (APES) and civil society organisations. Rosalia Nunez, left, and Elizabeth Torres, members of the 'Journalists United for

A previously unknown group calling itself the National Republican Army, Nepal (NRA) has claimed to have killed a freelance reporter abducted a week ago from his home in the western district of Kanchanpur. On Monday, the group claimed in an email that it had killed reporter Prakash Thakuri and accused him of “propaganda in support of the monarchy.” “We are concerned about the safety of Prakash...

(Reuters) - Key events in former press baron Conrad Black's life and legal saga: August 25, 1944 - Conrad Moffat Black is born in Montreal to a wealthy brewing family. At age 14, he is expelled from a prestigious Toronto school for stealing and selling exams. He later earns a law degree and a master's in history. 1967 - Black buys a half interest in two Quebec weeklies for C$500. In 1969, he and...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Fallen newspaper tycoon Conrad Black has rarely backed away from a fight, locking horns with powerful adversaries including fellow media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. On Friday he lost perhaps the most important battle of his life when a jury in Chicago found him guilty of multiple counts of criminal fraud, related to allegations that he...

The US army and the Iraqi police have been urged to investigate the deaths of a photographer and a driver employed by Reuters Thursday in Baghdad because of the contradictory accounts about the circumstances. Their deaths bring to six the number of Reuters employees killed since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003. Relatives of Saeed Chmagh, an Iraqi driver working with Reuters, mourn...

An interpreter and reporter in the Baghdad bureau of the New York Times was shot and killed Friday, the bureau chief, John F Burns, reported. Khalid W Hassan, 23, was the second Iraqi employee of the Times to be killed during the current conflict. Hassan was shot in the Seiydia district of south central Baghdad while driving to work under circumstances that remain unclear, Burns said. He had...

Applications are being invited for the Social and Environmental Responsibility world journalism prize set up to reward the best articles on social and environmental responsibility published around the world. Every year three prizes will be awarded by the Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum in partnership with the World Editors Forum: A prize dedicated to a specific topic chosen...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, July 13, 2007 - A San Antonio Express-News reporter has been temporarily reassigned from his posting in the border city of Laredo after a U.S. law enforcement source warned that an unspecified American journalist is on the hit list of a Mexican criminal group, the newspaper's editor said today. The Association of Foreign Correspondents in Mexico also issued a warning today...

Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine, is being taken to court for allegedly deceiving millions of users over links that are paid for by its advertisers. In the first legal action of its kind, Australia’s competition watchdog is seeking an injunction to stop Google from displaying search results that did not “expressly distinguish” advertisements. The Australian Competion and...