2005-2014

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders voiced exasperation at the failure of the UN to resolve a dilemma under which Taiwanese journalists have again been refused accreditation to cover the World Health Assembly in Geneva simply because they are from Taiwan. For the fourth consecutive year, the UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have rejected accreditation requests from five Taiwanese...

(Globe International/IFEX) - Criminal charges were pressed against B. Tsognemekh, a reporter for the daily newspaper "Zuuni Medee", on 9 April 2007 and B. Ganbold, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, on 11 May 2007 pursuant to a complaint by Member of Parliament Ch. Ulaan. B. Tsognemekh has been charged under Criminal Code Article 110.1 (insult - imprisonment for a term of up to three months) and...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - A state chief minister has followed through on his threat of suing a news site and two opposition politicians after failing to obtain compensation and retraction from them over allegations of corruption on his part, naming an additional news organisation - owned by the dominant ruling political party - in his suits. On 15 May 2007, Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud filed...

The police fired warning shots at the scene of a double bombing Tuesday, enforcing an order banning news photographers and TV camera operators from filming the aftermath of deadly bombings, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The Iraqi government said it decided last weekend to keep photographers and camera crews away from blast sites to prevent them from damaging forensic evidence. Press...

New York, May 17, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Wednesday’s grenade assault outside the offices of Cambio de Sonora, the second explosive attack in the last month against the Hermosillo-based daily. At 3:35 p.m., a grenade exploded in Cambio de Sonora’s parking lot in Hermosillo, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City, according to press reports and CPJ...

New York, May 17, 2007—Two radio reporters covering a provincial governor in south-central Somalia were gunned down on Wednesday after the official’s motorcade was ambushed by clan militia. News editor Abshir Ali Gabre and reporter Ahmed Hassan Mahad of Radio Jowhar were killed when the motorcade of Mohammed Omar Deele, governor of the Middle Shabelle province, came under attack from gunmen of a...

After more than 50 years American Heritage, the magazine that furnished not just the minds but, in its original hardcover format, the dens of generations of American history buffs, is suspending publication, its editor, Richard F. Snow, said last week. The bimonthly magazine, which is owned by Forbes Inc., has been for sale since January, and in the absence of a buyer, Mr. Snow said, the...

A court in the Azerbaijani capital Baku has sentenced two journalists to 30 months in prison apiece on charges of defaming President Ilham Aliyev’s uncle. Yasamal District Court Judge Malahat Abdulmanafova Wednesday convicted Editor-in-Chief Rovshan Kebirli and reporter Yashar Agazadeh of the Baku-based opposition daily Muhalifet on charges of defaming Jalal Aliyev under articles 147 and 148 of...

(IAPA/IFEX) - Miami (17 May 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called upon all print media readers in the hemisphere to sign a public letter to the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, urging him to ensure justice in the 10 March 1998 murder of journalist José Carlos Mesquita. Mesquita was killed with two shots to the head as he exited a television station he owned in...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today supported its member unions' call that a Reuters' trust ensure that its editorial independence and quality of reporting is not damaged if the proposed merger deal with Thomson Corp. is finalized. "We are concerned that this deal could lead to changes in editorial policy that could damage Reuters' reputation for independent and...