2005-2014

The 9 May 2006 election of 10 of the world's worst violators of free expression - Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia - to be members of the UN's new Human Rights Council was called a "scandal" today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). "It is outrageous that 10 countries that violate the rights of journalists and free expression on a...

New York, May 11, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that Egyptian police and security officers assaulted several journalists covering protests today in support of two judges facing dismissal for criticizing last year's parliamentary elections. Several journalists detained while covering similar protests last month are still being held. Plainclothes police and...

Vienna, 11 May 2006: On the occasion of the European Union Latin America and Caribbean (EU-LAC) Summit in Vienna, Austria, the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, calls on the European Union (EU) to raise the issue of press freedom and freedom of expression. In the Americas, at least 11 journalists were killed because of...

New York, May 11, 2006 - With the 2008 Olympic Games just two years away, the Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about the Chinese government's continuing crackdown on the media. China's policies of the past three years show a disturbing trend that seems certain to affect journalists reporting from Beijing in 2008. CPJ calls on the Chinese government and the International...

SUDAN-CHAD BORDER (CNN) -- One of the greatest difficulties of reporting from Darfur is the size, scale and scope of it. Darfur itself is about two thirds the size of Texas. It's a large area, and it doesn't have a road infrastructure like Texas. That's for sure. There are a lot of dirt roads, but not a lot else, and the big problem is security. Getting around to cover this story is a major...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Unknown assailants, shouting "God is greatest," lobbed a percussion bomb at the office of Turkey's most staunchly secularist newspaper on Thursday, the third attack on the paper in just a week. The device exploded but nobody was hurt, though some glass was blown out of windows by the blast, the chief editor of Cumhuriyet, Ibrahim Yildiz, told Reuters. Attackers also tried to...

Los Angeles --- It was a remarkably sad coincidence that within the span of a few days, two of the world's more influential newspaper figures died. What is even more remarkable is that even though the two newspapers over which they famously presided could not have been more different, both were rightly considered pioneers and innovators. From 1986 until 1993, Chen Li was editor-in-chief of China...

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow prosecutors Thursday rearrested Fail Sadretdinov, acquitted last week of the murder of former Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov. "Sadretdinov was arrested on specious grounds," said Sadretdinov's lawyer, Ruslan Koblev. Another lawyer, Ruslan Zakalyuzhny, said Sadretdinov had been arrested in his notary's office without any explanations. Sadretdinov and two...

EVERY waking moment reminds Frank Gardner of what happened to him in Saudi Arabia. Shot six times – four in the small of the back – Gardner thinks of himself as fortunate to be paralysed rather than dead. But the few seconds that it took to discharge those bullets never leave the 44-year-old. The images spool, in an endless loop, across his memory like a strip of film. He can see himself dashing...

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will seek to revive the process to reach an understanding with media players to cut down on the broadcast of market sensitive news and avoid information that drove up or hammered down prices of financial products without being backed by facts. Coming down heavily on the media for repeatedly giving out inaccurate news to investors and the public, Sebi...