2005-2014

AITARUN, Lebanon - We reached this demolished village by following a bulldozer with a Hezbollah driver plowing away the rubble blocking the road. Minutes after our convoy of five press cars rolled into town, women, children, elderly men and disabled people began emerging from the ruins, pleading for escape from the bombing. Their desperation to flee the war zone as the clock ticked down on Israel...

New York, August 2, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the continued harassment of Nosir Zokirov, a former correspondent for the Uzbek service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) who has already served six months in prison on a specious charge of insulting a security officer. President Islam Karimov’s regime has continued persecuting Zokirov and his family since the...

Kanpur-based publishing house Jagran Prakashan's plans to enter the English newspaper segment have once again been thwarted. Its talks with Delhi-based publication, the Pioneer, hit a roadblock with the Pioneer management refusing to part with the controlling stake to Jagran. Last year, Rs 480-crore Jagran Group, whose flagship brand is Dainik Jagran, was in talks for buying an equity stake in The...

A group of journalists traveling together in southern Lebanon, including several photographers, helped rescue trapped civilians this week in two towns damaged by Israeli missiles. "[There were] far too many old people and children who simply couldn't make it across the rubble," said Polaris photographer Timothy Fadek, who helped rescue people at both scenes. "We simply carried them on our backs."...

NEW DELHI: The Government would hold a meeting with stakeholders on the proposed legislation to regulate the broadcasting media before going to the Cabinet, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi told the Lok Sabha here on Monday. Terming as "uncalled for" the apprehensions that the fundamental rights of the media would be encroached upon, he said the legislation was...

M ubarak Defends Freedom of Opinion and Expression! A Victory for Freedom of the Press! The Press Decides the First Round — and The Fight Will Continue! Mubarak Delivers on his Promise and Sides with Freedom of the Press and Democracy! So screamed most Egyptian newspapers — state-owned, independent and opposition alike — a day after the People’s Assembly passed amendments to the criminal code...

CALL centre and technology jobs have been the main target of offshoring to low-cost operations in places such as India and the Philippines, but journalism is in the sights of one of India's largest offshorers. Satyam Computer Services, the $US1.39 billion ($1.81 billion) software development firm that counts among its clients Coles Myer, Woolworths, AMP and Mayne Logistics, is planning to build up...

NAJAF, Iraq - The Baghdad correspondent of the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television station was assassinated in the western part of Baghdad, one of his colleagues said Tuesday. Adil al-Mansuri, an Iraqi who was in his 20s, was driving his car after dropping his wife at her family's home in Amiriyah when gunmen stopped him Monday and shot him dead, said Aysar al-Yasiri, the network's...

(EOHR/IFEX) - On 12 July 2006, the Egyptian Organization For Human Rights (EOHR) issued its report on freedom of the press, entitled " Journalism In Egypt: Caught Between Laws And the Government". This report was prepared as part of an EOHR campaign calling for the removal of all restrictions to freedom of expression and opinion. The report discuses EOHR's perspective on the draft law which the...

MANILA • Gunmen killed a tabloid newspaper photographer and two left-wing activists in three separate shootings in the Philippines, the national police said yesterday. Nearly 1,000 leftist activists, community organisers, lawyers and journalists have either gone missing or been murdered since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo came to power in 2001 and her government has been criticised for failing...