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(IPYS/IFEX) - On 14 September 2007, National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) personnel working at the jail in Chimbote, a port in northern Peru, fired upon several journalists with breech-loading guns in order to prevent them from photographing the hunger strike started by prison inmates. The journalists targeted were Shirley Oliva Cuevas of "La Industria de Chimbote", Alex Martínez Pajuelo of...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders calls on the foreign ministries of the leading democracies to mark the sixth anniversary of the start of a wave of arrests in Asmara by summoning Eritrea's ambassadors to express disapproval for a crackdown that led to the suppression of all freedoms and the imprisonment of more than 10 journalists in unknown locations. Governments that believe in press...

(MFWA/IFEX) - Nasser Diallo, a reporter with Nolstagie FM, was on 6 September 2007 assaulted by officials of the "Coordination des Associations de Jeunesse de Guinée" (CAJEG), a coordinated youth group in Guinea. The leader of the group, Alassane Sylla, detained Diallo for several hours and confiscated the journalist's microphone and tape recorder. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)...

Reporters Without Borders today protested at the brutal closure of Radio Orión in Pisco, southwestern Peru, using a bogus administrative reason to mask an act of censorship after the government made serious accusations against its proprietor. It also condemned pressure and threats made the same week against the community radio Cutivalú in Piura, in the northwest of the country, for refusing to...

NEW YORK: Anyone familiar with online rankings knows that, depending on the measurement service, the data tends to swing wildly. It's a problem not just with newspaper Web sites but also with the larger online world. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has been trying to hammer out a solution to address the problem where advertisers can effectively glean where the trends are going. As the...

NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Digital media monitoring company Attributor Corp plans to announce on Monday that it will help track content produced by Reuters Group Plc (RTR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) that finds its way onto the Internet. The explosion in the growth of blogs and social networks such as Facebook and News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) MySpace, where consumers link to...

Manama: Bahrain's information ministry yesterday denied reports that it had granted Al Vefagh, the daily Arabic newspaper of the official Iranian news agency, the rights to publish in Bahrain. "The claims about issuing a circulation licence to the Iranian newspaper are untrue and lack credibility. We have never received a request from Al Vefagh," said Abdullah Yateem, the information...

A Chinese researcher for the New York Times who was arrested on charges of revealing state secrets and later convicted of fraud was released Saturday after serving a three-year prison sentence. On Saturday morning, Zhao Yan was greeted by family members and friends as he left a Beijing detention centre. He hugged his sister, daughter and others but said nothing to reporters. He later issued a...

NEW DELHI: A court in New Delhi on Saturday granted bail to aspiring journalist Rashmi Singh, co-accused in the fake sting operation case involving a government school teacher into an alleged prostitution racket. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alok Aggarawal enlarged Rashmi Singh, 25, on bail on furnishing of a personal bond and a surety of Rs 20,000 each. "The accused Rashmi Singh...

Reporters Without Borders condemns a violent assault on Tope Abiola, the deputy editor of the privately-owned Nigeria Tribune daily newspaper, who was beaten unconscious by prison guards and police at Agadi prison in Ibadan (in the southwestern state of Oyo) on 11 September while trying to cover the aftermath of a riot by inmates. “Nigerian journalists are often subjected to violence on the least...