2005-2014

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by criminal defamation prosecutions of three Yemeni editors. Independent weekly Al-Deyar Editor-in-Chief Abed al-Mahthari was charged with defaming Watani Bank for Trade and Investment; Al-Shoura.net Editor Abdelkarim al-Khaiwani was charged with publishing false information about the Defense Ministry and defaming Armed Forces Moral Guidance...

Reporters Without Borders has hailed the warrant issued on 1 March 2007 by Sydney coroner Dorelle Pinch for the arrest of Yunus Yosfiah, the former Indonesian army officer who led the attack on the East Timor border town of Balibo on 16 October 1975 in which five journalists working for two Australian TV stations were killed. "We applaud Dorelle Pinch's efforts and determination to end the silence...

(Adil Soz/CJES/IFEX) - International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech (Adil Soz) and the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES), along with 12 other IFEX members, have joined in solidarity to protest the ongoing harassment of independent journalists and public activists in Uzbekistan and to campaign for the release of independent journalist Umida Niyazova. On 22 January...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced surprise at the 22-month prison sentence which Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, a correspondent of the Miami-based Payolibre and Nueva Prensa Cubana websites and the US government-funded Radio Martí, received on 27 February 2007 from a Havana court on a charge of "disturbing the peace," and said it hoped the 19 months he has already spent in detention will be deducted...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) holds grave concerns for the future of press freedom in Thailand following a court decision permitting the Prime Minister's Office to demand television station, iTV, pay over 100 billion baht (around US$2.9 billion) in fines by March 6. According to local reports, the military-installed government will terminate the license of iTV and...

Press freedom organisations have welcomed a German Constitutional Court ruling that journalists cannot be accused of betrayal of state secrets for publishing classified information obtained from informers. Cicero’s chief editor, Wolfram Weimer, complained to the Federal Constitutional Court, which ruled Tuesday that the raid was an “unjustified intrusion on the press freedom of the plaintiff.”...

The Internet is spreading across the country, and newspaper websites too seem to be making hay off it. The Web editions of Indian newspapers are now read even in smaller towns, and not just in the metros of the country. A recent study has found that their readership has also spread out to as many as 62 countries, in addition to India. Columnists are read by 42 per cent of the English newspaper...

The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism celebrate the best in freelance print journalism and local reporters who show great courage and commitment to reporting on controversial issues. Two $5,000 prizes are awarded each year, one to a local reporter covering local stories in a developing country or nation in transition, and the other to a freelance journalist covering international news...

New York, March 1, 2007—The Togolese government on Wednesday indefinitely banned from broadcast veteran journalist and media activist Daniel Lawson-Drackey over a commentary on private radio Nana FM that was critical of a government minister, according to local journalists. “It’s outrageous that the government is censoring a respected journalist for raising critical questions about an issue of...

The moribund International Islamic News Agency (IINA), a media front of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), is set to for a revamp by the year-end. Turkey's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a 57-member block of Islamic states, attends a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday, February 25, 2007. Ihsanoglu said at the Riyadh...