2005-2014

North Koreans live in the most censored country in the world, a new analysis by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found. The world's deepest information void, communist North Korea has no independent journalists, and all radio and television receivers sold in the country are locked to government-specified frequencies. Burma, Turkmenistan, Equatorial Guinea, and Libya

Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, more journalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in the world. The situation faced by journalists attempting to cover the events in that country highlight the need for greater international efforts to protect journalists in conflict situations. Journalists fulfil a special role in conflict situations, providing details of...

afrol News, 2 May - Eric Motomu, publisher and editor of Cameroon's English-language tabloid 'The Chronicle' was beaten unconscious by the bodyguard and the driver of prominent opposition leader John Fru Ndi. While being beaten up at an opposition rally, the editor was told that his generally critical reporting of the opposition would not be accepted. Mr Fru Ndi had recently sued the editor for...

PRAGUE, May 2, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Like so many of his colleagues, Radio Free Iraq (RFI) Baghdad bureau chief Nabil al-Haidari has had close brushes with danger. In November 2005, a car bomb ripped into the downtown hotel that housed RFI's Baghdad office. "Our former office of Radio Free Iraq in Baghdad was bombed," al-Haidari told RFE/RL. "It was really severely damaged and even now that office is...

Media freedoms have eroded even in some of the world's most established democracies, media advocacy groups said as they prepared to mark World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday. The 16th annual observance comes as many journalists face legal restrictions, intimidation and even violence, although freedoms have increased in some countries. The U.S. military's detentions of journalists without charge in...

2 May 2006 – In a message ahead of World Press Freedom Day in a country where more than 70 journalists have been killed in the past three years, the top United Nations envoy in Iraq today called on the new Government to reaffirm its commitment to protect the right of journalists to do their work free from intimidation and threats. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative Ashraf Qazi...

UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (IPS) - As the world reflects on the best and worst places to practice journalism on Press Freedom Day Wednesday, independent writers' groups and civil liberties advocates warn that Washington's "war on terror" is putting a growing chill on the basic democratic right of free expression. "Thanks in large part to the Patriot Act, our government is once again excluding foreign...

A top international group defending the rights of journalists says that 2005 was the deadliest year for the profession in a decade. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, in its annual report, says 63 journalists and five media assistants were killed worldwide last year. It says 120 journalists are currently in prison for exercising their profession. In the report, issued on the eve of World Press...

New York, May 1, 2006 - The publisher of Cameroon's English-language tabloid The Chronicle was beaten unconscious by the bodyguard and the driver of an opposition leader, local journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists today. Eric Motomu, who also edits the paper, told CPJ he was attacked on Friday at a rally in the opposition stronghold of Northwest Province by the two men, who work...

In the month after the lifting of Proclamation 1017, journalists in the Philippines have reason to worry. Especially, those journalists inclined to take a more critical look at the government, probing and investigating issues and events, which some politicians would rather keep hidden and private. Last April 21, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez reportedly ordered the National Bureau of...