A Philippine court has sentenced a man to death for fatally shooting a photojournalist in 2004, officials said on Friday, according to Associated Press (AP). Allan Dizon, 30, a photographer for The Freeman newspaper, died hours after he was shot at close range outside a shopping mall in central Cebu city on Novemver 27, 2004. JUSTICE WILL BE DONE: Luli Arroyo, daughter of the philippines president
Poland has freed the journalist who started a three-month jail term on Monday, becoming the only person in the European Union serving a criminal sentence for libel. The constitutional court finally decided to suspend implementation of his prison sentence for libel and set him free. CENTRE OF ATTRACTION: Polish President Lech Kaczynski seen here during his swearing in ceremony in Warsaw, in
Following the US air strikes in Pakistan's Bajaur Agency on January 13 that killed 18 people, mostly women and children, the local administration has stopped both Pakistani and foreign press persons from entering the area in a bid to "prevent Bajaur from becoming another Waziristan," Asia News International (ANI) has reported. RAZED: A Pakistani house damaged in the American airstrike. Pakistani
Three journalists in China have been given heavy prison sentences after writing about illegal land confiscation in a magazine that had no official licence in the southeastern province of Zhejiang. LAND AND DISPUTE: Farming land on the outskirts of Beijing. Two journalists in eastern China have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail for publishing an unauthorized magazine that exposed local land
The Cambodian government may have timed the release of four imprisoned government critics — a union leader, a radio journalist and two social activists — to coincide with a visit by a diplomat of the United States which had condemned the arrests, but it is far from dropping defamation charges against them. MARCH TO FREEDOM: Human rights leaders Kem Sokha (4th R), Pa Nguon Teang (3rd R)
The Moscow City Court trying three Chechens charged with murdering Paul Klebnikov has postponed the trial by a week even as the three accused pleaded not guilty when the trial began behind closed doors in Moscow, report agencies. SMILES OF ANOTHER DAY: The editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition Paul Klebnikov speaks at a news conference to mark the edition of the Forbes magazine issue 'The
Azerbaijani journalists are demanding that the authorities report on progress made in the investigation into the murder of Elmar Huseynov, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Huseynov, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition news magazine Monitor, was assassinated in Baku in March 2005. JUSTICE DELAYED: Elmar Huseynov was gunned down in his apartment building in capital Baku on
A Norwegian Christian magazine has published a set of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed after months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper's decision to print the same cartoons, according to Al-Jazeera. LIGHT HIS FIRE: Danish preacher Moses Hansen heads a Christian demonstration in the street in Copenhagen Tuesday, January 10. Denmark's prime minister Tuesday accused a
The high-profile trial of three former police officers accused of involvement in the 2000 assassination of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has been adjourned till January 23. The Kiev Appeals Court announced the decision after one of the defendants – former Interior Ministry officer Mykola Protasov – reportedly felt faint in the courtroom. AWAITING JUSTICE: Myroslava Gongadze is seen in the Kiev's
