2005-2014

PASADENA, Calif: The job posting was a head-scratcher: “We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA.” A reporter half a world away covering local street-light contracts and sewer repairs? A reporter who has never gotten closer to Pasadena than the telecast of the Rose Bowl parade? Outsourcing first claimed...

The attack on the Dinakaran offices in Madurai by DMK supporters Wednesday has come in for condemnation from press freedom organisations worldwide. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) mourned the deaths of three employees of Tamil daily Dinakaran who were killed in an attack on the newspaper’s offices. “We are horrified by the attack on Dinakaran newspaper and mourn these...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - A Memorandum by ARTICLE 19 highlights the failure of the new draft Constitution of the Republic of Montenegro to provide effective guarantees for freedom of expression. The proposed standard for restrictions on this fundamental right is low and the right of reply, as well as the right to claim damages for inaccurate media reporting, is given constitutional status. The draft...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced concern about gruesome threatening messages aimed at journalists and the fact that one of the latest messages, which are being blamed on drug traffickers, was followed four days later by an apparent attempt to kill a leading investigative journalist by sabotaging her car. On 3 May 2007, World Press Freedom Day, the head of a corpse was left on a street in the eastern...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has deplored the action of the Polisario Front's security services in briefly detaining Australian documentary filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw during the first week of May 2007 near the Rabouni refugee camp, 25 km from Tindouf in southwestern Algeria. "Western Sahara under Moroccan control and the refugee camps in Algeria are in the areas that...

(CMFR/IFEX) - Two journalists from the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) were banned from entering the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig City on 9 May 2007 for an arranged interview with jailed opposition senatorial candidate and former Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV. Focap is the organization of foreign correspondents based in the Philippines. Douglas...

LONDON — British tabloids typically send out paparazzi to poke into the lives of the royals, soccer coaches and supermodels. Lately, however, two free newspapers fighting a circulation battle on the streets of London have turned the cameras on each other. One of the papers, London Lite, sent a video recently to media buyers that showed distributors ostensibly dumping 2,900 copies of its rival, The...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 10, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called for a full and transparent investigation into the police beating on Tuesday of prominent Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, a 2005 recipient of CPJ's International Press Freedom Award, and three other attorneys. Mtetwa, president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, suffered bruises on her back, arms...

HAVANA -- (AP) -- Cuba has released an imprisoned journalist after he served most of his 22-month sentence for participating in an anti-government rally, a local activist and a foreign media watchdog group said Thursday. Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, who reported for U.S. Web sites, was released from Valle Grande prison outside Havana Tuesday, according to veteran dissident Martha Beatriz Roque...

New York, May 10, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists is troubled by the detention since Sunday of a private newspaper director in the capital, Kinshasa, after he sought comments from a government official. CPJ last week named DRC one of the world’s worst backsliders on press freedom. Jean Pierre Phambu Lutette, director of the private bi-weekly La Tolérance was arrested by police when he...