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Gunmen abducted and brutally assaulted a Yemeni editor in capital Sana’a Monday. Local journalists suspected the gunmen to be part of the government’s security forces. A silver Toyota SUV carrying six gunmen wearing civilian clothing descended upon Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, former editor of the online newspaper Al-Shoura, while he was waiting for a taxi outside the offices of the weekly

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has upheld journalist Eynulla Fatullayev’s 30-month prison sentence on charges of defaming Azerbaijanis in an article. Fatullayev, editor of the now-shuttered Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan, has been held in the Ministry of National Security isolation ward since his April 20 conviction by the Yasamal

A Franco-Canadian journalist who went missing in Ivory Coast three years ago was abducted and murdered, a man claiming to be a witness told French television in an interview to be aired Thursday. The independent journalist, Guy-Andre Kieffer, disappeared in Abidjan in April 2004 while investigating corruption in Ivory Coast's important cocoa industry. The French investigation has concluded that

Radio reporter Tito Alberto Palma was shot to death Wednesday night at a friend’s house in Paraguay’s southeastern city of Mayor Otaño. Palma, a reporter for the local radio station Mayor Otaño and correspondent for the Asunción-based Radio Chaco Boreal, was having dinner at a friend’s home when two armed individuals in camouflage broke in at 10:40 p.m., according to press reports and

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has rejected a bill that would have forced editors to name their sources if their stories led to court cases. Kibaki declined to sign Kenya’s Media Bill after calling an amendment within it “a great inhibition of press freedom” that could “undermine the [country’s] democratic strides,” according to an official statement posted on the website of Kenya’s

Audiences are now more in control than ever over their digital media and entertainment habits and increasingly savvy about filtering marketing messages, a recent survey has concluded. Consumers are seeking consolidated, trustworthy content, recognition and community when it comes to mobile and Internet entertainment. Armed with PC, mobile and interactive content and tools, consumers are vying for

British-Russian relations have taken a nosedive. BBC's Russian-language service will no longer be heard on Russian FM radio, after the country's media regulator ordered that it be removed. On August 17, the management of Bolshoye Radio announced that it would no longer broadcast the BBC’s World Service programmes in the Russian language. The radio station is the BBC’s last FM partner in Russia

Hundreds of journalists marched silently Wednesday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi with their mouths gagged to protest a bill that would restrict press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The law, which would force editors to name their sources if a story led to a court cases, was sent to President Mwai Kibaki last week for review. Journalists with their mouths taped

Four Mexican journalists who were detained by soldiers during a drug raid were abused and assaulted during their detention. Crime reporter Sinhué Samaniego Osoria spoke to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Monday and detailed the abuse that he and three other reporters suffered during their arrest by soldiers last week in the northern state of Coahuila. Mexican soldiers patrol a highway

Two journalists of state-owned RadioTélévision Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) have been freed by a Kinshasa court after paying bail of $120 each. Vincent Hata and Michel Shango were arrested on July 26 for union activity and taken to the prosecutor’s office on August 8. A third RTNC journalist who was arrested with them, Eugène Risasi Ntambwe, was released on July 31. President Joseph Kabila