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Gambian authorities have flattered to deceive. After a token respite while playing host to the African Union summit, the Gambian government has once again started targeting the press. One journalist has not been seen since July 7, five days after the summit ended. He is believed to have been arrested, while another has gone into hiding fearing arrest, according to the Committee to Protect

More than 50 journalists and media staff have been killed worldwide this year. But it is not that threats to press freedom are rampant only in the so-called places deemed perilous for journalists to report from. The silent terrorisation now comes from Western governments trying to hide potentially illegal or damaging actions and statements. HAND IN GLOVE: US President George W Bush (right) shakes

Six journalists have been killed in the Philippines this year and 43 since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power in 2001, more than those killed under the 14-year Marcos dictatorship, according to the National Union of Journalists Philippines (NUJP). The Philippines was second only to Iraq in the number of journalists who died there last year. This year too the ranking remains unchanged. STOP THE

George Vigo and his wife, Macel Alave-Vigo, both journalists, were murdered in the Philippines Tuesday. The two were walking home from a public market on the island of Mindao when they were shot by men on a motorcycle, according to media reports. They died on the way to the hospital, according to Reuters, which quoted local police. STOP THE KILLINGS: Protesters hold up pictures of leftist

The Pakistani journalist who reported on a US airstrike that killed an al-Qaeda operative was found shot to death in a remote tribal region Friday six months after he was kidnapped. The body of Hayatullah Khan was found by villagers Friday dumped in the tribal-dominated North Waziristan town of Mir Ali from where he was abducted December 5. JUST A PHOTO IS WHAT THEY HAVE LEFT: The daughter of

A Lebanese broadcaster who lost a hand and a leg in an attempt on her life received an annual press freedom award from the United Nations on Wednesday, with the organisation warning journalists were increasingly at risk. FAVOURITE: May Chidiac is a popular television presenter, whose news bulletins and Sunday programmes – Naharkoum Saïd and Bonjour – on LBC (Lebanese Broadcasting Corp.) are

World Press Freedom Day 2006 provides an occasion for considering the important questions of how a free press can help eradicate poverty and how freedom of expression and press freedom can assist in achieving the MDGs, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura has said. In so doing, it becomes clear that the defence of one fundamental human right – the right to freedom of expression – may

North Korean is 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 round

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

As Argentina remembered the March 24, 1976 coup that began Latin America's worst-ever military dictatorship, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) paid homage to all journalists who fell victim to what the military called 'el proceso,' which continued till 1983. Those who disappeared or were murdered during the final years of the preceding Peronist government (1973-76) were included in the tribute. THE