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DAKAR, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Senegalese authorities have arrested a third journalist in less than a month on charges of offending the head of state after he wrote an article blaming the government for price rises, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Pape Amadou Gaye, publisher of the private daily Le Courrier du Jour, was charged on Tuesday with insulting President Abdoulaye Wade and threatening state...

New York, November 7, 2007—The editor-in-chief of a pro-government daily paper in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to prison on criminal defamation and insult charges, making him the eighth journalist in the country currently serving jail time. This imprisonment cements Azerbaijan position at the top of the list of countries jailing journalists in Europe and Central Asia. Nazim Guliyev, head of Ideal...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Senegal to put an end to "oppression" of journalists after the arrest of an editor this morning. This is the fourth arrest of a reporter or editor in the last month for allegedly offending the President or endangering national security. El Malick Seck, editor of the news website Rewmi.com was arrested this morning...

Reporters Without Borders is disappointed by yesterday’s testimony by Yahoo! chief executive officer Jerry Yang and the company’s vice president and senior general counsel, Michael Callahan, to a US House of Representatives foreign affairs committee hearing on Callahan’s earlier controversial statements to Congress about the company’s involvement in the arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao in 2005...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police posed as a TV news crew to trap a one-time Palestinian informer, provoking an outcry from critics who said the sting threatened to put the lives of newspeople at risk. Police said the target of the operation was Nadim Injaz, a Palestinian man who had been wanted for making unspecified threats. Last year, Injaz burst into the British Embassy in Tel Aviv, claimed to...

Five newspapers yesterday agreed to pay substantial libel damages to Julia Kushnir, the woman who survived the crash in Moscow in which Liam Lawlor died, a day after evidence emerged to show there was no justification for describing her as a prostitute. The Moscow police press office told a journalist working for the Sunday Independent and Observer in the immediate aftermath of Mr Lawlor's death...

Reporters Without Borders hopes that basic freedoms, especially free expression, will be discussed at the 18th Ibero-American summit, a three-day meeting of heads of state and government from Latin America, Spain and Portugal that begins tomorrow in the Chilean capital of Santiago with the official theme of “Social cohesion and public policies for fairer societies.” The summit’s discussions will...

On the eve of “Journalists’ Day,” which China is celebrating tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to stop violating journalists’ rights on a massive scale. The record leaves no room for doubt - 33 journalists are currently detained, several dozen have been injured this year and one has been killed. To illustrate the scope of the government’s editorial control, the press...

Reporters Without Borders today urged the Turkish authorities to move to ‘deeds not words’ on reform of Article 301 of criminal law allowing prosecution for “insulting Turkish identity” after the justice minister yesterday made a new statement of intent. “It’s been two years now since, alongside Turkish journalists and press freedom organisations, we have called for the law to be amended and...

(MISA/IFEX) - On 29 October 2007, the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) ordered Joy TV to immediately stop all television broadcasts until the station is issued appropriate radio and broadcasting licenses. Joy TV- a sister company to Joy Radio - has been held up in a wrangle with the country's communications regulator after it challenged the Macra Board in court, describing it as...