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The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is seriously concerned about the recently proposed amendments to Canada's copyright law. The proposed changes to allow news footage to be used in political advertisements present a serious threat to press freedom and the integrity of Canadian news media. CJFE has five major concerns with these proposed amendments: This proposal could result in...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) have called for security protection for a journalist who has received death threats following a misunderstanding with the Vice Governor of Bulacan, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. Rommel Ramos, a news stringer with GMA 7, requested a security detail from the Philippine...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the criminal libel charges filed against Khadija Ismayilova, an award-winning investigative journalist in Azerbaijan, and called on authorities to drop the charges immediately. Ismayilova is known for her investigations into government corruption in Azerbaijan, including ties between President Ilham Aliyev's family and some lucrative businesses...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) have condemned the brutal attacks by thugs and anti-Occupy Movement protesters against several journalists in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong on October 3 and 4. On Friday, October 3, a number of anti-Occupy Movement protesters, including the leader of the Anti-Occupy civil group entered the...

A Japanese journalist has been charged with criminal defamation in South Korea and forbidden from leaving the country, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the move and called on South Korean authorities to drop the charges against Tatsuya Kato immediately and remove the travel ban. Kato, Seoul bureau chief of the Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun, was...

Journalist Santos Porras, director of the weekly Quién in Huancayo, has reported to Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) that people tried to kill him after he published serious accusations against the local leader Vladimir Cerrón Rojas, who was also a candidate for reelection in the October 5 vote. The incident took place in Junín, in central Peru. Santos Porras told IPYS that on September 13 he...

Ethiopia’s federal supreme court Tuesday sentenced three magazine owners in absentia to more than three years in prison on charges of “inciting violent revolts, printing and distributing unfounded rumours and conspiring to unlawfully abolish the constitutional system of the country.” The three, who fled the country when the prosecution was mooted, are Addis Guday publisher Endalkachew...

Mexican reporter Miguel Ortega Bonilla is requesting protection for himself and his family after being threatened and abducted for several hours on October 5 in Teziutlán, in the central state of Puebla, as he was about to cover a peace march in the neighbouring town of Chignautla. As four men forced him into car in the centre of Teziutlán, Ortega managed to send his family a WhatsApp messaging...

The panic in Western African countries hit by the Ebola epidemic is taking its toll on local news media. Some countries are “quarantining” their journalists to prevent them covering this unprecedented public health crisis although responsible media coverage is badly needed. Last weekend in Guinea, soldiers prevented a group of lawyers and journalists from travelling to a village in N’ZérÃ...

Reporters Without Borders has condemned freelance news photographer Mahmoud Abu Zied’s arbitrary detention without trial or charge for the past 14 months. His detention was extended for another 45 days on October 2. Known by the pseudonym of “Shawkan,” 27-year-old Zied was arrested in Cairo’s Al-Tayaran Street on August 14, 2013 while providing the Demotix and Corbix agencies with coverage...