2005-2014

Reporters Without Borders voiced deep sadness today at the murder of a young cameraman employed by Associated Press Television News (APTN) in Baghdad on 1 June, a day after the father of a woman journalist employed by satellite TV station Al-Arabiya was found riddled with bullets in the Baghdad morgue. “We convey our condolences to the families of the victims and share their grief,” the press...

News International today announced 50 editorial job cuts at the Times and News of the World as part of its latest cost-cutting drive. The job losses at the two Wapping titles form part of company-wide cost-cutting measures, with News International understood to be seeking savings of £30m. Editors of News International's four national titles - the Sun, News of the World, Times and Sunday Times -...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said the Somalia government must put end to its policy of media harassment and intimidation after authorities shut down three radio stations in Mogadishu for the third time this year over allegations they were “backing terrorists.” “We condemn this continuous harassment by the Somali government on media who try to work independently,” said...

Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about the fate of Eyob Kessete, a journalist with the Amharic-language service of public radio station Dimtsi Hafash, who was arrested as he tried to flee across the border into Ethiopia and has since been held in the May Srwa detention centre, north of Asmara. “The Eritrean government is not evolving, and those who do not toe the single party...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about the safety of journalists in southern Nepal where armed groups are becoming increasingly active. At least 72 journalists have been attacked or threatened since 1 January by groups that use violence against the media and the civilian population in general. A list of the main incidents involving armed groups accompanies this release. "This is...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has called on democratic governments to take specific measures to protect freedom of the press in the face of widespread tightening of anti-terrorism measures. The WAN Board, meeting at the 60th World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, expressed its concern that following major terrorist attacks worldwide, tightened security and surveillance...

Three gunmen shot dead a female journalist in the north of Afghanistan capital Kabul, the second such killing in less than a week. Zakia Zaki, who also served as headmistress of a school in Parwan province, ran a private radio station, partially funded by a Western media group, Reuters reported. The 35-year-old married woman was killed at her house late on Tuesday night. Zaki was threatened...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - The Cambodian government has banned a report by a London-based environmental watchdog that accuses Prime Minister Hun Sen and top government officials, as well as their relatives and cronies, of plundering the country's forests through illegal logging. On 5 June 2007, government officials seized copies of the report and accused Global Witness, the organisation which produced it, of...

Armed men attacked the headquarters of a Palestinian press agency in Gaza City Tuesday, employees said. The militants, most of them masked, broke into the offices of Palmedia and scared staff with aimless gunshots before seizing a computer and television editing equipment. Injuries were not reported. Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) Wednesday condemned the impunity with which journalists are being...

New York, June 6, 2007—A court in the capital, Banjul, on Tuesday fined a reporter for a now-banned newspaper in connection with a March 2006 story reporting the arrest of several suspects in the aftermath of a purported coup attempt, according to local journalists and news reports. Lamin Fatty of the private bi-weekly The Independent was fined 50,000 dalasi (US$1,850) on charges of publishing...