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(MISA/IFEX) - On 19 June 2007, a case in which the privately owned "Nation" magazine is being sued for E5 million (approx. US$ 750,000) by a Mbabane businessman for alleged defamation, resumed at the Swaziland High Court. However, the case could not proceed as "Nation" raised an objection around supplementary papers filed by the applicant, businessman Kareem Ashraff. Lawyer Bob Sigwane...

The violent physical attack on an investigative journalist in Hungary recently has drawn widespread condemnation from its entire political class as well as the Humgarian society. Hungarian freelance journalist Iren Karman speaks during an interview in her hospital bed in Budapest, Sunday June 24, 2007. The reporter, who became famed after a documentary on so-called 'oil-bleaching crimes' of the...

CNN.com is to drop its paid-access live video service from Sunday as part of a major overhaul of its international website. The revamped site will be entirely free, featuring new personalisation options, user-generated content, links to other sites and aggregated comment, with the aim of making the cable news network a "good web citizen". The subscription service Pipeline, which currently costs...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Three more Iraqi journalists have been killed in attacks across Iraq in the last three weeks, the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said Thursday.As more and more media outlets relocate to neighbouring countries and the Kurdish north "their local correspondents are left without any protection and their killers continue to operate with impunity," it said in a...

BEIJING - A Chinese mine boss has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the beating death of a reporter, a court official said Thursday, a high-profile case that prompted an unusual intervention by President Hu Jintao.Hou Zhenrun, the head of a small unlicensed mine outside the northern city of Datong, was accused of organizing a gang of five men to beat reporter Lan Chengzhang and his...

MOSCOW: Fatima Tlisova had been beaten, harassed and, she suspects, poisoned while working as a journalist in Russia. But she finally decided to flee the country the day she sent her 16-year-old son on an errand last year and he didn't come back. Tlisova later tracked him down at a police station in the custody of drunken officers who said they'd put the boy's name on a list of suspicious people —...

LAHORE: The Punjab University’s (PU) Board of Studies announced 25 grace marks to the 58 examinees of Development Journalism, in which 29 students, who were working journalists, had failed, said official sources on Tuesday. The examinees claimed at the exam time that the test was made out of questions that deviated from the course they were taught, and they boycotted the exam. Examinations...

The forefront of a marched staged by journalists and multiple representatives of the civil society, including university students, to advocate freedom of expression and demand resumption of the broadcasts of private television station RCTV, arrived in Quinta Crespo, downtown Caracas, after 1:30 p.m. While demonstrators chanted slogans and waved the Venezuelan flag, media members read out a...

About 100 journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Wednesday converged in front of the army headquarters to protest against killings and other forms of violence directed at journalists in the country. During the protest, the journalists, who wanted to create awareness about the dangers posed by their profession, submitted a memorandum containing their grievances to DRC's defense...

June 28 (Bloomberg) -- ``Mi hijo esta muy mal. Muy mal.'' Even on the speakerphone from Miami, Blanca Gonzalez's voice is unmistakably choked with emotion. ``My son is doing badly. Very badly,'' she says. ``He said that from there he will leave dead.'' ``There'' is Kilo 7, a maximum-security Cuban prison in Camaguey, one of several in which journalist Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, now 37, has been...