2005-2014

Kanhangad (Kerala), May. 25 (PTI): An 'attempt to murder' case was today lodged against the Managing Editor of the evening daily, even as the editor said he was being falsely implicated in the case after the daily's office was attacked by unidentified persons late last night. According to the Hosdurg police, a case of attempt to murder was filed against Aravindan Manikoth, Managing Editor of...

NEW DELHI: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a defamation complaint against Aroon Purie, Editor-in-Chief of India Today, Prabhu Chawla, Editor, and Mohini Bhullar, Publishing Director, for publishing a news item on `Gandhiji's assassination' referring to Nathuram Godse as an RSS worker. Acting on the complaint filed by Mukesh Garg, the trial court by an order dated October 13, 2004...

Reporters Without Borders today strongly condemned the British parliament’s approval of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act, including one that would bar access to details of MPs’ expenses. “If these measures become law, it would be a setback,” the press freedom organisation said. “Access to information is a basic principle of democracy and for MPs to hide details of their spending is a...

Reporters Without Borders called today on provincial and national authorities to thoroughly investigate the murder on 21 May of photojournalist Dodie Nunez, of the regional newspaper Katapat, which had criticised corruption. It said the killing may have had political motives. Nunez was returning home in Cavite province, south of Manila, when three motorcyclists stopped the bus he was on and shot...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about the action of the Chinese foreign ministry in summoning and warning two western journalists about their reporting from Tibet last month, and it called on Beijing Olympic Games organiser Liu Qi to clarify the status of Tibet in the new rules for foreign journalists. "The Beijing games organising committee has just published a very detailed report...

(IPYS/IFEX) - In testimony given between 16 and 18 May 2007, paramilitary chief Juan Francisco Prada Márquez confessed that on 2004 he ordered the murder of journalist Martín Larrota Duarte because Larrota Duarte had opposed the paramilitary umbrella group known as the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia. The paramilitary chief was then the head of the "Héctor Julio Peinado" front, which operated in...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 19 May 2007, journalist Nelson Álvarez Narváez, a columnist with the newspaper "El Siglo de Maracay", was murdered during a birthday party at his mother's house. A hit man burst into the house and shot him six times. The murderer then fled in a car, accompanied by another man. The crime took place in the city of Maracay, Aragua state, in central Venezuela. The motives for the...

New York, May 25, 2007—The Mexican federal government must provide immediate protection to the Hermosillo-based daily Cambio de Sonora so it can resume publishing, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The paper announced Thursday that it would suspend publication after two bomb attacks and repeated threats. Mario Vázquez Raña, president of the Mexican Editorial Organization (OEM)...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Reuters identified an anonymous source on Friday after Singapore's Court of Appeal ordered a reporter for the international news agency to disclose the name and the source gave permission to do so. The source released the reporter from her duty of confidentiality when it became clear that the reporter would face jail unless she complied with the court order, confirmed by the...

BAKU, May 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Elmar Huseynov, an Azerbaijani editor of the journal "Monitor," which focused frequently on corruption, was gunned down outside his apartment on March 2, 2005. Although there have been arrests and confessions, his murder has never been officially solved. Such cases are common across the CIS and, despite protestations from international media watchdogs, journalists...