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A provincial governor in Mozambique has made public death threats against Bernardo Carlos, a journalist on the daily Noticias, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Ildefonso Muananthatha, Governor of Tete in the centre-west of the country, warned the journalist he could suffer the same fate as his colleague Carlos Cardoso, the newspaper editor who was murdered in 2000. Bernardo Carlos...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern over the safety of Khadija Abdul Qahaar, publisher of the website Jihad Unspun, who has been held by abductors in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas for more than four months. Qahaar, a Canadian who changed her name from Beverly Giesbrecht when she converted to Islam in 2002, disappeared on November 11, 2008, while...

Veteran Pakistani journalist Raja Assad Hameed was murdered in the northeastern city of Rawalpindi last Thursday night. Hameed, who worked for local broadcaster Waqt TV and the English-language daily the Nation, and appeared regularly on Al-Jazeera broadcasts, was shot several times at close range outside his home at around 10 p.m., according to local and international news reports. The reports...

Pakistani authorities must not allow Thursday's shooting death of veteran Pakistani reporter Raja Assad Hameed in Rawalpindi go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, the Committee to Protect Journalists has demanded. Hameed, who worked for local broadcaster Waqt TV and the English-language daily the Nation, and appeared regularly on Al-Jazeera broadcasts, was shot several times at close range outside...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over the safety of Khadija Abdul Qahaar, publisher of the website Jihad Unspun, who has been held by abductors in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas for more than four months. Qahaar, a Canadian who changed her name from Beverly Giesbrecht when she converted to Islam in 2002, disappeared on November 11, 2008, while travelling...

Seventh-day Adventist religious liberty proponents worry a new United Nations resolution that broadly seeks to protect religious ideologies may do so at the expense of individual freedoms of expression. The non-binding measure, passed by the United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday, is the latest in a series against hate speech and "defamation of religion" that began in 1999 when Pakistan...

Pierre Haski, the editor of the French news website Rue89, and one of his reporters, Augustin Scalbert, have been summoned for questioning by an anti-crime unit, the BRDP, in connection with a video of President Nicolas Sarkozy talking informally to TV studio staff before an interview without realising he was being recorded, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “We condemn this escalation...

A court in Casablanca sentenced on Monday Managing Editor Ali Anouzla and Publishing Director Jamal Boudouma of the independent daily Al-Jarida al-Oula to two-month suspended jail terms each and a fine of 200,000 dirhams (US$24,190) for "defamation" and "insulting the judiciary," the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported local news reports. Anouzla said his lawyer will appeal the...

Chun Keun Lee, a journalist employed by public TV station MBC, who was arrested March 24 evening in Seoul on the orders of the prosecutor’s office, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has reported. When a RSF representative met Lee on March 25, he said he knew he might be arrested in connection with a report about beef imports from the United States. After Lee’s arrest, the representative went to MBC...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel peace laureate, have been chosen as the winners of this year’s Roland Berger Human Dignity Award. This prize is awarded by the Munich-based Roland Berger Foundation (Roland Berger Stiftung), which was founded in 2008 by Roland Berger, emeritus professor of business administration and management consulting also...