The International Press Institute (IPI) on Monday called for the immediate release of five journalists sentenced last week to spend 10 years in prison for alleged defamation and violations of Myanmar’s national security laws. The Pakokku Township Court on Thursday sentenced four reporters and the chief executive of the Unity journal to imprisonment at hard labour in response to a January 2014...
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the Israel Defence Forces' airstrike on a car clearly marked as a press vehicle in Gaza City on Wednesday. The airstrike killed Hamid Shihab, a driver for the Gaza-based press agency Media 24, according to the agency. Media 24 cameraman Hatem Silmy told CPJ that Shihab was parked outside his home when the car was hit. The two were headed to the...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned the killing of Palestinian media worker Hamid Shibab in Gaza last night, Wednesday 9 July. According to IFJ affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), Shihab, who worked as a driver for Media 24 agency, was killed by an Israeli rocket that hit his car when he was driving in the Gaza Strip area. “We join our...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges China’s major media regulator to withdraw new rules which will interfere with journalists’ right to work and prevent media workers from properly exercising their duties to report in the public interest. On July 8, state-owned news agency Xinhua reported that the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television...
Donor countries should bring diplomatic pressure on Burma's government and reconsider their economic support for the country following Thursday's sentencing of four journalists of a magazine and the publication's chief executive to 10 years of hard labour in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. The five--reporters and editors Yazar Soe, Sithu Soe, Lu Maw Naing, and Paing...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an attack on two Israeli journalists by a group of Palestinian protestors, but has acknowledged the Palestinian journalist who stepped in to help them. According to the National Federation of Israeli Journalists (NFIJ), Gal Berger, from IBA radio, and Elior Levy, from the Yedioth Ahronot newspaper, were harassed and threatened by a...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have welcomed the release of prominent Belarusian journalist and human rights activist, Ales Bialiatski, but have condemned the long and unjust period he has endured in prison. According to IFJ/EFJ affiliate, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), Bialiatski, head of the human rights center...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sambadik Forum (BMSF) in condemning the attempted abduction of journalist Shahed Chowdhury in Dhaka on the evening of Sunday July 6, 2014. Chowdhury, editor of the Bengali daily Samakal and president of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), was traveling by public bus to attend a dinner hosted by former Prime Minister...
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Moroccan authorities to drop the charges against Mahmoud Lhaisan, a TV journalist who was arrested on Friday after reporting on police abuse during protests following a World Cup game. Mahmoud Lhaisan is a reporter for Rasd TV, which is affiliated with the Sahrawi people in the Western Sahara region. Rasd TV broadcasts from Sahrawi refugee camps...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned about the state of press freedom in Myanmar as police continue to probe news publications even after the country’s Interim Press Council has called for the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Special Branch police to drop their investigation. The Special Branch intelligence unit has summoned editors of news publications to inquire about...
