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Reporters Without Borders today deplored the murder of TV journalist Jawad al-Daami, of the satellite TV station Al-Baghdadiya, who was shot dead in Baghdad on 23 September, less than a week after the killing of Muhannad Ghanem Ahmed, of radio Dar Al Salam, in the northern city of Mosul. “The plight of the Iraqi media continues to be disastrous,“ the wordwide press freedom organisation said. “Ever...

Reporters Without Borders today criticised the closure of the offices of the hardline website Baztab.com, calling it a “troubling example of the government’s repressive policies.” The shutdown, by the Teheran state prosecutor’s office on 19 September, once more deprived Iranians of a website that disagreed with the government’s official line. “The list of closed and censored sites is growing, as...

Reporters Without Borders expressed its horror today at the murder of freelance radio journalist Salvador Sánchez, who was shot dead in the town of Soyapango, near the capital, San Salvador, by suspected gangsters on 20 September. “We anxiously await the results of the police investigation, though so far no link has been made between the killing and his journalistic work. Gang lawlessness that...

NEW YORK: The New York Times announced today that its international weekly edition is being carried by The Korea Times U.S.A. It's the first time the international weekly, which first appeared in the Korea Times on Sept. 12, has been distributed in the U.S. A team of New York editors from the Times News Service prepares the weekly edition, which is distributed in 20 other countries, retaining the...

There have been 24 serious violations of the freedom to report news and information against Burmese journalists trying to cover protests that began a month ago. The use of violence and censorship against journalists is a “detestable strategy” aimed at preventing them from doing their job, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the Burma Media Association have said. This strategy has been accompanied...

The Delhi High Court's sentencing of three journalists and the publisher of Mid Day to jail terms is being seeen as a severe blow to press freedom in the country. The order has also brought into focus what ought to constitute contempt of court. Editors of a number of newspapers and television channels in New Delhi Saturday passed a resolution calling upon both the print and electronic media to...

An Indonesian reporter who went to Malaysia to write a special report on allegations of abuse and exploitation of Indonesian workers in the country was last week assaulted and raped by a man who tricked her into believing that he could provide her with information. According to reports, the 34-year-old magazine journalist was lured by a man, believed to be also Indonesian, to a rumah kongsi (a...

Global journalists' and and news safety leaders have welcomed the launch of an Iraq-based campaign aiming to stem the tide of violence against news media which has claimed the lives of 226 journalists and media staff since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International News Safety Institute (INSI) are calling on governments and aid agencies to...

The Editor of a major newspaper has sought an "unconditional apology" before Islamic clerics for an llegedly "blasphemous" cartoon published in a satire supplement of the daily. Prothom Alo Editor Motiur Rahman apologised and promised "not to repeat such mistakes" in future as fellow editors and law advisor of the interim cabinet Mainul Hosein held a meeting with Islamic leaders, including the...

A cartoon about Islam's prophet Mohammed, published in a Swedish newspaper in August, did not constitute incitement to racial hatred, Sweden's justice chancellor has ruled. Three Swedish Muslim organisations had asked Chancellor Goeran Lambertz — the only official in Sweden entitled to indict in cases concerning freedom of the Press — to press charges of incitement to racial hatred against the...