Ato Kwamena Dadzie, news editor of Joy FM, an Accra-based independent radio station, was charged with a criminal offence for refusing to reveal the station's sources of information for a July 5 news item, according to the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). The station had carried a report to the effect that an umbrella body of local contractors, the Ghana Real Estates Developers Association...
A controversial article by writer Yilmaz Ozdil was within the "limits of press freedom", the Diyarbakir Public Prosecution in Turkey has decided. In the April 14 article, which was published in Hürriyet newspaper, Ozdil had defended a physical attack on Kurdish politician Ahmet Türk. The Press Council had previously reached a similar conclusion regarding Ozdil's column, IPS Communication...
Luis Hernández Núñez, an XEJTV Canal 5 cameraman in Mexico, was injured on July 15 when a bomb was set near a federal police convoy by individuals associated with organised crime. Four people were killed and at least 10 were injured in the attack in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) has reported. The incident took place around 8:00 p.m. at the 16 de...
Thai authorities, using the emergency decree, have recently shut down 26 more community radio stations in nine provinces, media reports said. The Nation said six more stations were pressured to discontinue their operations. The English-language newspaper also reported that 35 people working for these stations, like radio hosts, station managers and executives, are facing lawsuits for allegedly...
The US Senate on Monday passed a bill to shield US journalists, authors, and publishers from "libel tourists" who file suit in countries where they expect to get the most favourable ruling.The popular legislation headed to the House of Representatives, which was expected to approve it and send the measure to US President Barack Obama to sign into law despite misgivings from key US allies, Agence...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK has censured the Daily Mail, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sun over “misleading” ads for reader offers, the Press Gazette has reported. A reader complained to the ASA over The Sun’s offer of a free USB wristband questioning if a charge for post and packaging represented the actual cost. The offer told readers they could claim “free” wristbands by...
Three Kurdish journalists were attacked while they were covering demonstrations by members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in Istanbul and in Midyat, in the southeastern province of Mardin, on July 18, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The protests were prompted by reports that the bodies of several members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Kurdish armed...
Azerbaijan’s representative to the European Court of Human Rights, Chingiz Askerov, has said that the reason his government appealed against the court’s April 22 ruling, calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Eynulla Fatullayev, was that it was “contrary to international norms.” Even if the court’s Grand Chamber upholds the original decision, Fatullayev will not be released without a...
The provisional government in Kyrgyzstan has taken over all of the country’s TV stations and is busy nationalising them. Osh TV, an Uzbek language station based in Osh, the capital of southern Kyrgyzstan, is a case in point. The government has acquired a controlling interest in its shares and has arbitrarily fired its director, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. All of the country’s...
Vijay Pratap Singh, The Indian Express Senior Reporter who was injured in the blast outside an Uttar Pradesh minister's house in Allahabad on July 12, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday. He would have turned 39 on July 30. He is survived by his wife Shashi, five-year-old son Yash and 10-month-old daughter Adya. Singh was among seven people injured in a bomb attack aimed at UP Institutional...
