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New York, October 25, 2007—Sri Lankan authorities should immediately release Sunday Leader reporter Arthur Wamanan Sornalingam, who was detained in Colombo on Wednesday in connection with a story critical of a government minister, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Sornalingam and his mother, with whom he lives, were picked up by Criminal Investigation Division officers at 4:30 a.m...

MIAMI (AP) — A television reporter investigating a story on school violence was arrested after carrying a loaded gun onto school property, authorities said. Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG-TV, an ABC network affiliate, was taken into custody Tuesday at Miami Central High School after ignoring several warnings not to walk on school property, Miami-Dade schools police said. "Kindly go across the street now...

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the fatal shooting yesterday of Alisher Sayipov, a young freelance journalist and founder of the newspaper Sayasat (Politics). He was gunned down outside the premises of Radio Free Europe in the southern city of Osh at about 7 p.m. The police have began a criminal investigation and the president’s office has said it is following the case. “Sayipov was...

(CEPET/IFEX) - A federal electoral court (Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, TEPJF) has ordered the magazine "Hora Cero" to abstain from publishing material "that offends or denigrates, or undermines the reputation or dignity" of Gerardo Peña Flores, the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) candidate for the mayoralty of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in northeastern...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Ernesto de la Cueva Bello, reporter and editor of the cultural section for the state of Mexico edition of the daily newspaper "Milenio", announced in an open letter that he fears for his life after having been informed that the mayor of Metepec, Óscar González Yáñez, has ordered his murder. De la Cueva told CEPET, "I have written nothing critical of Óscar González Yáñez, but I am...

On the eve of an EU-Russia summit in Mafra (Portugal), Reporters Without Borders today condemned an assault on documentary filmmaker Natalia Petrova and her family by plain-clothes police in the Tatar capital of Kazan, 720 km east of Moscow, on 6 September as “horrible and incomprehensible” and demanded an immediate investigation to identify and punish those responsible. “It is no longer possible...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about physical attacks on six journalists at Viru Viru airport in the eastern department of Santa Cruz during an operation on 18 and 19 October by police and troops to oust demonstrators in the pay of the Santa Cruz government. Public and privately-owned media were again the victims of political tension, which is growing in violence, especially in...

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the murders of freelance photographer Carlos Alberto Jaramillo and his assistant, Julio César García, who were shot dead while driving in their car near the southwestern city of Cali on 21 October. The motive for this double-killing has not been established but, after a wave of forced departures of journalists in what is one of the more dangerous...

New York, October 25, 2007—A Congolese government minister invited two television journalists to his office in the capital, Kinshasa, and then ordered police to beat them when they arrived, according to news reports and local press freedom group Journaliste en Danger. The incident came on the heels of a government decree summarily banning 38 private broadcasters over alleged regulatory...

New York, October 25, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned for the safety of detained journalist Qi Chonghuai, who was beaten by police while in custody, according to his wife. Qi has been detained at the Tengzhou Detention Center in the eastern province of Shandong since June 25 when police took him from his home, his wife Jiao Xia told CPJ. He was initially held for using a...