2005-2014

BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian security forces released a local British Broadcasting Corporation reporter on Tuesday who was detained in a crackdown on journalists suspected of links to a controversial U.S.-based online newspaper. Lamin Cham, a correspondent for the BBC's English language African service, was picked up last Wednesday by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on suspicion of links to...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 6, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalist is deeply concerned by attacks and threats against the press in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by suspected members of the two major Palestinian parties, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah movement. On Monday, nearly 50 armed militants stormed a studio of Fatah-affiliated...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has published photographs showing the marks left on the body of a journalist from the blows he received from members of the National Guard while detained earlier this year in Gambia, where two journalists are still in detention. The journalist's identity and the circumstances of his imprisonment are known to Reporters Without Borders but are being withheld to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the current unprecedented level of Internet filtering in China, which means the Google.com search engine can no longer be accessed in most provinces - although the censored Chinese version, Google.cn, is still accessible - and software designed in the United States to get round censorship now only works with great difficulty. The organisation...

Newspaper circulations worldwide rose slightly in 2005 while newspaper advertising revenues showed the largest increase in four years, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) announced Monday. WAN said global newspaper sales were up 0.56 per cent over the year, and had increased 6 per cent over the past five years. Much of the sales growth last year was again in Asia. When free dailies are added...

Internet searches fail 30% of the time, people are spending more time searching for information online, and press releases have surpassed trade journals as the leading source of information for knowledge workers. This according to a new report from research firm Outsell. The report is based on surveys of 7,000 knowledge workers taken from 2004 to the present. "The real headliner in this is that...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has called on the government of Belarus to end the harassment of journalists and the repression of press freedom that exists in the country. "The past year has been marked by severe repression of press freedom in Belarus, which culminated at the time of the presidential elections in March 2006 when over 30 journalists where arrested. Even though all...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has condemned the continued imprisonment of 15 journalists in Eritrea and has called on the east African nation, where all independent media have been shut down since 2001, to restore freedom of the press and access to information. "The Eritrean government has refused to provide information on the health, whereabouts, or legal status of the detained...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has called for the release of all journalists jailed in China and condemned "the ongoing repression of all forms of freedom of expression in China." "More than 30 journalists remain behind bars in China. The vast majority of them have faced long periods of detention before even being charged. Most trials result in lengthy prison sentences, often...

MOSCOW, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The international journalist community should learn the lesson of the cartoon scandal and avoid steps that may incite religiously motivated violence, said delegates to the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow. The delegates, who represent the Western and Islamic media, put different accents but were unanimous in the appeal for respect for religious feelings. Joern...