A Haitian journalist and his father were released on Saturday by a group of gunmen after kidnappers settled for a lower-than-expected amount of ransom, according to reports from Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. Haitians wait for a UN peacekeeper tank to pass during clashes between Haitian rebels and UN peacekeepers in the volatile neighborhood of Citi-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 26
Threats to mainstream media seem to be coming from all sides. If news aggregators like Yahoo/Google and classifieds like Craigslist were not enough, the latest threat from cyberspace comes in the form of independent local sites, says a new report. Borrell Associates, a leading research and consulting firm covering local advertising, in its report, "Independent City Sites Gain Steam," has detailed
A Somali reporter has been jailed since Monday following his recent online story claiming that a faction known as the Jubba Valley Alliance has been importing arms in violation of the 2004 peace agreement and a United Nations arms embargo, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reported. A Somali gunman carries a Russian-made long range machinegun in the port-town of Merca, October 26
Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández, an imprisoned Cuban journalist who wounded himself and waged repeated hunger strikes to call attention to his plight, was released on medical parole Thursday, more than two and half years after he was jailed in the government's massive March 2003 crackdown on the independent press. Cuban President Fidel Castro, gestures while talking during an evening ceremony
A Sierra Leonean editor jailed for writing articles attacking the president has had his sentence quashed, BBC reported. Paul Kamara, who had been convicted for seditious libel in October 2004 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, was freed Tuesday night after the Sierra Leone Appeals Court overturned the verdict of the High Court. FREED IN FREETOWN: Paul Kamara, who also serves as chairman of
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the many attacks, threats and other abuses against journalists in several provinces on November 20 and 26 in a continuation of the abuses being committed by the police with impunity since staggered polling in the ongoing Egyptian legislative elections began on November 8. National Democratic Party sympathisers armed with knives fight supporters of the
A policeman has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Philippines journalist Edgar Damalerio in May 2002. Three and a half years after the murder of Edgar Damalerio, the justice system has finally cleared a major hurdle in this case, marked by the murder of three witnesses and impunity for those who instigated the killing. The Cebu regional trial court on Tuesday gave weight to the
Press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the decision by the management of REN-TV to prevent a star presenter on the news analysis programme "24" from broadcasting. Olga Romanova was told on November 24 that she was not going on air that night. Three security guards, none of them employed by the station, physically stopped her from entering the studio after she refused to
