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A court in the Guinean capital of Conakry has handed down suspended prison sentences to two private newspaper directors in connection with articles alleging corruption by a former government minister, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists.. A man walks in an empty Conakry street in January 2007, following clashes with police forces. Over three million

Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva has vetoed the new Journalist Statute which threatened journalists’ rights to protect their sources and undermined their authors’ rights. The Portuguese Union of Journalists just started a protest action against Portuguese media group Controlinvest who, anticipating the effects of the law, announced the publication from September of a free newspaper made

Freelance Uzbek journalist Jamshid Karimov, being held against his will in a psychiatric hospital since September 2006, has reported in a message smuggled out to friends that his health is declining and he attributes this to the psychotropic drugs he is being given and the harassment to which he is being subjected. He has complained of memory loss, difficulty concentrating and a partial loss of

An Eritrean editor with state-owned Eri-TV who attempted to flee his country's regime has gone missing since trying to slip over the dangerous border to Ethiopia in May. Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) voiced concern Monday about the fate of Johnny Hisabu, an editor with state-owned Eri-TV, who disappeared in late May after trying to flee across the border into Ethiopia. There are unconfirmed

A respected freelance photojournalist in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was gunned down by unidentified men in army uniforms on Thursday evening as he returned home from covering a local conference on environmental protection. Patrick Kikuku Wilungula was a freelance photojournalist working in Goma in eastern DRC for national news agency Agence Congolaise de Presse (ACP) and Kinshasa-based

Two top Somali journalists were killed on Saturday — one shot dead outside his office and the other when a landmine exploded as he returned from his colleague's funeral. Six journalists have been killed in Somalia in the past year. Here is a chronology of attacks on journalists in Somalia since a battle between Islamists and the government began in June 2006. 2006: June 1: Somali journalist

The Malaysian government is still harassing bloggers and their families. Marine Lee, the wife of blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, was questioned by police in a Kuala Lumpur police station yesterday about her husband’s Malaysia Today website, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Raja Petra Kamaruddin, who edits the independent website Malaysia Today, posted an article on July 11 that is

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) have protested to Russian President Vladimir Putin against the incarceration of a journalist in a psychiatric hospital for writing an article critical of psychiatric services — a punishment that echoes human rights abuses from the Soviet era. A psychiatric clinic in the north-western city of Murmansk has confirmed it has

Chauncey Bailey, outspoken editor of the Oakland Post and former reporter for the Oakland Tribune, was shot dead by a masked gunman on a downtown Oakland street Thursday. Oakland (California) police officers investigate the scene where 'Oakland Post' editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death in Oakland, August 2, 2007. Bailey, the outspoken new editor of the 'Oakland Post', who formerly worked for

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a package of amendments that expand the definition of extremism to include public discussion of such activity, and give law enforcement officials broad authority to suspend media outlets that do not comply with the new restrictions, according to local press reports. The package, promoted by deputies with the ruling United Russia party, was