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19 July 2008

Tajikistan postpones trial of Russian reporter murder suspects

The Supreme Court of Tajikistan has postponed a trial of two suspects in the murder of Russian TV reporter Ilyas Shurpayev until July 22, a defence lawyer said on Friday, according to a RIA-Novosti report. Shurpayev, a reporter from Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, who worked for Russia's state-run Channel One, was found stabbed and strangled in his rented Moscow apartment...

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19 July 2008

Godman's supporters attack journalists in Ahmedabad

Journalists on Friday were caught between the opposing factions while covering the Ahmedabad Bandh called in memory of the two minor boys who had died under mysterious circumstances at the Asaram Ashram gurukul, the Indian Express has reported. Half-a-dozen reporters and cameramen from the national and the local media, including a woman journalist for a national TV channel were attacked by angry...

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19 July 2008

Police free Afghan journalist who took execution pics

An Afghan journalist, Rahmatullah Naikzad, has been freed after his pictures and video footage of 2 women brazenly executed by the Taliban led intelligence officials to hold him for questioning for two days, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The pictures and footage of the slain women were aired internationally and in Afghanistan, prompting widespread anger in Afghanistan over the killings...

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18 July 2008

Deputy managing editor of independent weekly deported from Rwanda

Fuhara Mugisha, the deputy managing editor of Rwanda's leading independent weekly, Umuseso has been deported from the country. Despite having a Rwandan mother, Mugisha is a citizen of neighbouring Tanzania. "This is an unacceptable act of intimidation that yet again highlights the Rwandan government's inability to tolerate the few independent publications," Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières...

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18 July 2008

Members of European Parliament urged to support Global Online Freedom Act's European version

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is backing a proposed directive which Dutch MEP Jules Maaten was expected to submit to the European Parliament on July 17 and which would prevent Europe's Internet companies from being forced to cooperate with repressive regimes in censoring and monitoring the Internet. Inspired by America's proposed Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), it would allow these companies...

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18 July 2008

Spanish authorities restart Haiti murder investigation

Spanish authorities have decided to reactivate the investigation into the 2004 murder of Antena 3 correspondent Ricardo Ortega, who was fatally shot in Haiti while covering the ouster of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide. As part of this process, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) European consultant Borja Bergareche was one of several journalists who briefed Judge Pablo Ruz of the...

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18 July 2008

French reporter faces legal action over car scoop

A French magistrate placed a journalist under formal investigation on Thursday over the unauthorised publication of pictures of a new model of car, drawing protests from press freedom campaigners, says a Reuters report. Prosecutors raided the offices of specialist magazine Auto Plus on Tuesday, seizing computers and documents and arresting journalist Bruno Thomas, the author of the scoop last year...

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17 July 2008

US military review board orders continued detention of AP journalist for six more months

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has voiced its protest against the detention without charge of an Associated Press (AP) journalist who was seized by US and Iraqi forces last month in the Iraqi city of Tikrit. Ahmed Nouri Raziak, a 38-year-old cameraman who has worked with AP Television News since 2003, was detained at his home in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on June 4, AP reported, and is...

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17 July 2008

Increase in homicides of media workers due to Iraq war

In many countries, media workers such as journalists, camera/sound operators and translators are being killed due to their jobs, according to just published research by the University of Otago, Wellington. The study in the international journal 'Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health', examined five authoritative data bases to find the number and risk factors for all media worker homicides...

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17 July 2008

Atlanta Journal-Constitution cutting 189 jobs

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported an 8 percent reduction in its workforce, cutting 189 jobs, according to the Atlata Business Chronicle website. The staff cuts among its 2,300 full-timers will come between August and October and will include a combination of voluntary buyouts, involuntary layoffs and position eliminations, AJC said in a press release. AJC spokesperson Jennifer Morrow...

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