2005-2014

PRAGUE, May 9, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Zokirov was an eight-year veteran with RFE/RL's Uzbek Service when a rebel uprising triggered the chain of events that led to the massacre by authorities of hundreds of demonstrators on Andijon's main square. He'd been filing reports from the nearby city of Namangan, in the fertile and densely populated Ferghana Valley. He is convinced that his work led to...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 1 May 2006, Associated Press photographer Santiago Llanquín and Danny Alveal, a photographer for the newspaper "Las Últimas Noticias", were wounded by persons while they were covering a march organized by the workers' union Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) to commemorate May Day in Santiago de Chile. According to witnesses, the aggression resulted from the fact that...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 2 May 2006, Federal District 12th civil judge Carlos Miguel Jiménez ordered journalist Olga Wornat and the weekly "Proceso" to pay 1,958,000 Mexican pesos (approx. US$180,000) as reparation to the Mexican president's wife, Martha Sahagún. The judge decided that Wornat and "Proceso" are guilty of publishing, on 27 February 2005, details about the annulment of the religious wedding...

(MISA/IFEX) - On 8 May 2006, the editor and two reporters of "The Chronicle" weekly newspaper were arrested and charged with criminal libel, following an article published in the newspaper that alleged that the Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara, was involved in the sale of a stolen laptop computer. Police acted on a warrant of arrest following a complaint from Kasambara. Reporter Arnold Mlelemba...

New York, May 8, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murders of an Iraqi reporter and a media worker whose bodies were discovered early this morning south of Baghdad. Laith al-Dulaimi, a reporter for the privately owned TV station Al-Nahrain, and Muazaz Ahmed Barood, a telephone operator for the station, were kidnapped by men disguised as police officers at Diyala Bridge while...

New York, May 8, 2006 - A Russian prosecutor has said he will appeal the acquittal by a Moscow jury of two Chechens charged with the July 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor-in-chief Paul Klebnikov. Prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin said on Saturday he would challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court, as allowed under Russian law, because of "flagrant procedural violations" during the trial, local and...

Beth gets more than 500 hits per day at her blog, Cursed to First, which serves as a very personal homage to the Red Sox and the Patriots, so she knew that spicy entries like ''Chicks dig the long ball" were being read. She didn't realize until recently that they were also being ripped off. Last month, an alert reader informed Beth that her blog was being plagiarized. Dozens of Beth's blog entries...

Yahoo will on Monday unveil a long-promised overhaul of its online advertising system, setting the stage for a showdown with Google and Microsoft in the race to dominate the fast-growing search engine advertising industry. Like Microsoft, which formally launched its own online advertising platform last week, Yahoo also said its new technology had been designed to handle the next wave of targeted...

AMMAN, Jordan (UPI) -- As if living in a turbulent Middle East is not hard enough. Try being a journalist, especially an Arab one, and the risks on your safety immediately shoot up. This is how the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders described the Middle East and North Africa in its annual report released on May 3 marking the 16th World Press Freedom Day: 'The world`s most dangerous region for...

A New York ad agency has dropped its lawsuit against a midcoast man who had used an Internet blog to criticize Maine's internet tourism marketing campaign. In a one-page document filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising LLC dismissed its lawsuit against Lance Dutson of Searsmont. The agency sued Dutson last month for libel, defamation and copyright...