2005-2014

(CIHRS/IFEX) - Today, on the first anniversary of the attacks made on referendum day, 24 Egyptian NGOs announced that the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights, of the African Union, has decided to take on the lawsuit that organizations have raised against the Egyptian government over the physical and sexual harassment a number of female journalists and political activists were...

(JED/IFEX) - On 25 May 2006, cameraman Ghislain Ngatieba, of the private station Radiotélévision Groupe l'Avenir (RTG), broadcast from Kinshasa, was beaten by a group of police officers who were providing security for the musical artist Ngiama Makanda, also known as Werrason. Ngatieba told JED that he was sent by the station to cover the arrival of the American star Shaggy in Kinshasa. "I was in...

(CEHURDES/IFEX) - CEHURDES condemns the act of burning of copies of a leading newspaper by a religious group and the manhandling of a photojournalist by police personnel. On 24 May 2006, a group of protesters stopped a vehicle belonging to Kantipur Publications Ltd. at Parawanipur, some 15 kilometres from the southern town of Birgunj. They took out all 1,700 copies of the newspaper and burnt them...

According to a report prepared by members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG), violations of freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of association and other basic human rights are still rampant following the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in Tunisia in November 2005. The report, entitled "Deception and Lies...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 25, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that a request by a Venezuelan state assembly to evict the daily Correo del Caroní from its premises in a zoning dispute is an attempt to silence the newspaper's critical reporting on local government corruption. The Bolívar state legislature said in a May 19 report that publishing company Roderick Editorial...

Amnesty International is turning up the pressure on Yahoo! to change directions in China. Amnesty International USA, the American branch of the international human rights group, is sending an official to Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting on May 25 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Anthony Cruz, the San Francisco-based Amnesty official who plans to speak at the meeting...

ANKARA, 24 May (IRIN) - Iranian journalist and political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been awarded the annual Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA). "He stood out in the eyes of the jury, composed by members of 11 different human rights organisations, in terms of the sacrifices he has made and the fact that he refused to compromise [for freedom of expression] in any way," Hans...

BOGOTA, Colombia - It was the sort of scoop any ambitious journalist would jump on. But reporting it could have cost Jorge Quintero his life. With the help of local officials, a bank manager in the small southwestern Colombian town of Florencia allegedly funneled $11 million in public funds into the foreign bank account of a convicted drug trafficker. Despite sitting on a pile of incriminating...

THE Chinese media is using fewer characters and to understand 90 per cent of the content in publications people need only know about 900 of the thousands of pictographs that make up the script, a new study has revealed. The findings of a survey conducted by the education ministry and language commission were based on 900 million characters used in more than 8.9 million files chosen from newspapers...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 21 May 2006, Panamericana Televisión journalist Janet Mori and "El Comercio" newspaper photographer Enrique Cúneo were assaulted by Daniel Abugattás, recently elected to Congress for the political alliance Unión por el Perú (UPP). The incident occurred as the politician attempted to enter, although he was not invited, the premises where a public debate between presidential...