2005-2014

MOSCOW, July 9 — The American ambassador to Russia, William J. Burns, urged the Kremlin on Monday to “redouble its efforts” to solve the case of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov, who was shot three years ago in a contract murder here. The ambassador spoke at a gathering of Mr. Klebnikov’s family and friends here at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Mr. Klebnikov, an American of Russian...

BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A leading Chinese trade union for journalists is considering action against a bogus "official" website for the organization. The website -- www.acja.cn -- runs genuine news industry information and links, as well as the emblem of the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA), the ACJA announced here Wednesday. "The fake website claims it is the website of the ACJA and...

A former Boeing employee was charged today with criminally obtaining sensitive documents from the company's computer system, including information police say later appeared in news stories in The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Gerald L. Eastman, 45, of Kent, was accused of 16 felony counts of first-degree computer trespass in court papers filed by the King County Prosecutor's Office...

Police arrested the editor of a local daily and the local correspondent of a television channel in an extortion case last night. The police picked up Sazedur Rahman Bablu, editor of the daily Hawa, and Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia correspondent of CSB News, during a raid on the newspaper's office at about 8:15pm. The daily Hawa is owned by Syed Mehedi Ahmed Rumi, a former lawmaker and general...

THE likelihood of Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and journalist Colm Keena going to prison diminished greatly yesterday when no motion for committal to prison was brought by the Mahon Tribunal over the controversial Bertie Ahern “dig-out” payments story. The Mahon Tribunal yesterday started proceedings in the High Court aimed at compelling the newspaper to produce the document which led to a...

KARACHI: Journalists of the print and electronic media, from Karachi to Lahore and Islamabad, are under threat and they need to unite across the country. This was stated Tuesday during a Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) meeting held in protest of the Islamabad Press Club being sealed by the government, the harassment of newspaper employees in Karachi by armed individuals and the ban imposed on...

ASMARA • Eritrea, where the private media was shut down in 2001, is the “largest jailer of journalists” in Africa, a press freedom group said yesterday. The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) called for pressure to be put on the Eritrean government to “release the imprisoned journalists whose only transgression was to have expressed their opinions.” “Based on information provided to...

ISLAMABAD: Security Forces have barred journalists from coverage of Lal Mosque Operation on Tuesday after 'operation silence' was launched. Reports said that as soon as the operation started Security Forces took control of Polyclinic, CDA and PIMS Hospital and asked the journalists including patients and their attendants who were already there to leave the hospital. At this both the patients and...

Detective branch of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) Sunday night arrested one person allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu. KMP sources said a team of detective branch arrested Alhaj Nazimuddin Ahmed, a close neighbour of the slain journalist, from Iqbalnagar in the city. He will be interrogated for three days in police remand. Former president of Khulna Press Club and...

Certain countries act as though they are unaware of Article 26 in the Universal Declaration of Human rights which says that everyone has the "right to freedom of opinion and expression.'' It's the same one that says that everyone also has the right to "seek, receive, and import" information and ideas "regardless of frontiers." To cut to the chase, it's an article seeking to protect journalists...