The Kiev Court of Appeal on Monday will launch a preliminary hearing in the case of murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, agency ITAR-TASS has reported. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko had announced in March that the crime had been solved. He also said then that the murderers had detained and interrogated. Yushchenko set the task to "find the mastermind and contractor of the
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and Friends of Maldives have launched an international campaign for the release of the daily Minivan's young photojournalist Jennifer Latheef, who completed Sunday her third month of a 10-year prison sentence for a supposed "terrorist act" based on her involvement in the September 20, 2003 civil unrest. Jennifer Latheef Latheef is being held in appalling conditions
Authorities in Tajikistan have released a journalist whose detention had been condemned by international media-rights groups, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Jumaboy Tolibov was freed December 16, two months after the Tajik Supreme Court initially ordered his release. Speaking to RFE/RL, Tolibov thanked rights groups that had voiced concern about his prison term. Tolibov was jailed for two years
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has launched an ad campaign in 60 African newspapers to draw attention to the many murders of journalists in Africa that go unpunished. The launch camer on the seventh anniversary of Norbert Zongo's murder in Burkina Faso and a few days before the first anniversary of Deyda Hydara's murder in Gambia. Produced in French and English, the advertisement is being
Press freedom violations in Uzbekistan have escalated since the Andijan killings in May 2005. There has been a growing tally of assaults, threats, beatings, sentences, expulsions and office closures, culminating in that of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on December 12, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has said. The offices of the BBC and media training organisation Internews have been
France can put aside its worries about the effects of the recent rioting on tourism and travel to its country, according to a new study by leading media analysis firm Carma International. Global measurement company CARMA examined how leading US media were depicting tourism in France in light of the riots and found that the media's portrayal of the unrest was unlikely to hurt French tourism. Carma
China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia have been the world's leading jailers of journalists in 2005, together accounting for two-thirds of the 125 editors, writers, and photojournalists imprisoned around the world, according to a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The United States, which is holding journalists in detention centres in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rose to
Prominent anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni was killed in a car bomb explosion in Beirut Monday, a day after he returned from Paris, where he had based himself in recent months in fear of assassination. A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the blast, but many quickly accused Damascus in the slaying. Lebanese Red Cross workers carry the body of a victim on a
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the detention of journalist Hang Sakhorn on a charge of criminal libel, part of a growing government crackdown on freedom of expression in Cambodia. TOTAL HUNSANITY: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's recent border agreement with Vietnam has been criticised in the media prompting him to crack down on journalists. Many of the country's leading
