Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the conviction of three men for the murder of Alfredo Villatoro, a journalist who hosted a show on radio HRN and coordinated its programming. He was found dead near Tegucigalpa on May 15, 2012, six days after being kidnapped from his home. A Tegucigalpa criminal court convicted Marvin Alonso Gómez and two brothers, Osman Fernando and Edgar Francisco Osorio...
Natalya Sadykova, a regional correspondent for the independent Kazakh newspaper Assandi Times, fled with her family to Ukraine on March 9 after she was told by police sources that she could be arrested. On March 17, a regional court in the western city of Aktobe, issued an arrest warrant for Sadykova, news reports said. She has been accused of libel in connection with a story she has denied...
An Egyptian journalist was shot dead in Cairo on Friday while covering deadly clashes, according to news reports. Mayada Ashraf was a reporter for the daily Al-Dustour. She had covered previous protests for the paper, the reports said. The clashes stemmed from nationwide demonstrations by Muslim Brotherhood members who were protesting Army Chief Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi's announcement on Wednesday...
Senior Pakistani journalist Raza Rumi was on Frinday attacked in Lahore. Unidentified gunmen fired on Rumi's car near the Raja Market neighborhood after he left the studio following his TV show. Rumi and his guard were injured, according to news reports. The driver, who succumbed to his injuries, was identified only as Mustafa in reports. "We condemn this senseless violence against brave...
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has welcomed the release of eight journalists in Turkey, but has called on the country’s government to immediately lift the latest social media ban on Youtube. According to media reports, eight Kurdish journalists, arrested in the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) press case on December 20, 2011, were released from prison in the early hours of...
Press freedom in Mexico faces widespread and growing threats from “soft censorship†that includes government use of financial incentives and penalties to pressure news media, punish critical reporting, and reward favourable coverage, according to a new report released by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). While Mexican journalists are frequently targets of...
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has denounced Sudanese authorities’ ongoing confiscation of newspapers in an attempt to financially encumber these press institutions so that they are indirectly forced to be shut down. Sudanese security bodies have recently confiscated a number of newspapers without clarifying the reasons behind such measures. For instance, on March 23...
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has denounced the suspension of a group of media professionals and the confiscation of their channel’s equipment, after a car linked to the National Army in Tunisia stopped them. The media professionals are Mokhtar Al-Kuholi, reporter for Jawhara FM, Qais Ammari, head of Al-Shorouk newspaper office in Sidi Bou Said, and Nour Al-Din Al...
The International Press Institute (IPI) has appealed to British Virgin Islands Governor Boyd McCleary to withhold his assent of a recently approved cybercrime bill that could hamper the ability of journalists to do their jobs. In a letter to McCleary, IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie urged the governor to return the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act to the House of Assembly to...
The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed concern at press freedom restrictions imposed by the Sri Lankan government, in particular the blockage of the Colombo Telegraph and other news websites in Sri Lanka. “Sri Lanka must ensure that the website of the Colombo Telegraph and other news websites are not blocked in the country, as this represents an unacceptable form of pre...
