2005-2014

New York, July 24, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of Aryana television cameraman Abdul Qodus, who died in a double suicide bombing in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday. Qodus had arrived at the scene of a suicide car bomb when a second attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up, according to the Kabul-based Committee to Protect Afghan...

The Israel-Hezbollah conflict has claimed its first journalist. Layal Nejib, a photographer working for a Lebanese magazine was killed Sunday when her taxi was hit by a shrapnel as Israeli warplanes bombarded a convoy of people feeling their homes near Tyre in southern Lebanon. Nejib, 23, is the first journalist to be killed in Israel's offensive to push back Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two...

NEW YORK: As journalists scramble in and around Beirut and southern Lebanon to cover the escalating violence between Israel and Hezbollah, several veterans of recent Baghdad reporting say the violence in Iraq is, in many ways, more dangerous to reporters than what they are encountering in the newly war-torn Lebanon. In conversatons with E&P today, they also described day to day working conditions...

The idyllic charm of the Maldives belies the numerous cases of arbitrary arrests, detention, harassment and intimidation of media practitioners, an international factfinding mission to the country has revealed. Journalists covering political and social events and demonstrations, as well as the participants in those demonstrations, have been the victims of excessive use of force by security forces

Muslims in UK blame Islamophobia on the portrayal of their religion in the media, a survey has revealed. An overwhelming 92 per cent feel this is either a very significant or significant problem. A significant number of the other respondents surveyed too think it is indeed a problem, with 44 per cent UK public and 40 per cent Jews saying so. THEIR STORY: It was striking that Muslims feel more...

Amnesty International has accused Internet giants Yahoo, Microsoft and Google of violating human rights principles by cooperating with China's efforts to censor the Web and called on them to lobby for the release of jailed dissidents. The London-based human rights group also called on the Internet companies to oppose in public Chinese government requests that violate human rights standards. ALL...

Bloggers in the US are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology, a survey has revealed. These are some of the key findings in a report issued by the Pew Internet & American Life Project titled Bloggers. EYE FOR A I: Most bloggers say they cover varied...

An independent and free media may undermine rather than support the rebuilding of states in crisis and post-war situations, says a new report from academics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). CRISES AND MISTAKES: One of the fundamental mistakes, the authors say, that has been made by donor agencies promoting media development strategies since the end of the Cold War has...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (July 19, 2006) - An international delegation of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) declared today that the climate of press freedom and free speech in Venezuela has deteriorated sharply and is marked by restrictive legislation, prosecution of journalists in the courts and harassment of news media. The IAPA mission, headed by the organization's president...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, July 13, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Pakistani province of Sindh to clarify immediately whether they are holding journalist Mehruddin Mari, who has been missing since July 2. CPJ has confirmed that Mari, a correspondent for the Sindhi-language newspaper The Daily Kawish, was taken by police, according to journalists who witnessed...