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François Latour, 60 ans, célèbre acteur et animateur, a été retrouvé mort le 23 mai 2007, après avoir été kidnappé à Port-au-Prince. Le publiciste animait aussi la rubrique "On achète, On vend" sur Caraïbes FM et anima pendant de longs mois sur Radio Métropole, une autre station privée, une chronique intitulée "Port-au-Prince au cours des zins". Reporters sans frontières adresse ses condoléances...

Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today at a violent attack yesterday on the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), a public radio broadcaster in Ibadan, in the southwestern state of Oyo, by around 100 supporters of local politician who were angered by an announcement that state elections would go ahead today. Equipment was smashed and at least 10 journalists were hurt. “The power...

(PPF/IFEX) - The Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC), an ethnic political group in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, has issued a list of twelve Pakistani journalists it denounced as being "chauvinists", and criticized their alleged role in the violence during protest rallies held in Karachi on 12 May 2007, during the visit of the suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftekhar Mohammed Chaudhary to...

(MFWA/IFEX) - Lamin Fatty, a reporter with the banned Banjul-based bi-weekly "The Independent", who is standing trial at the Kanifing Magistrate's Court for publishing "false information", on 21 May 2007 denied ever publishing any "false information". The journalist told the court that, as a reporter, he only gathered facts and submitted them to the editors who hold the ultimate responsibility for...

(Adil Soz/IFEX) - On 16 May 2007, "Talas turmushu" newspaper editor Kozubek Imankulov, photojournalist Berdibek Sultanmuratov and a journalist for the National TV/Radio Corporation, Salamat Nazarkulov, were rudely prevented from carrying out their professional activities during a demonstration in Aksai village, southern Kyrgyzstan. The protesters, who demanded that the gold mine Zherui Andash be...

CHICAGO: When a big-city newspaper's circulation starts falling in the United States, reporters and editors fret about impending layoffs. But apparently when circs go south in France, it's the journalists who do the firing. As Kim Wilsher, reporting in Paris for The Guardian in Manchester, U.K., writes Wednesday, the reporters and editors voted to dismiss the chairman of Le Monde, the Parisian...

Reporters Without Borders today deplored the appalling threats and constraints under which Nigerian journalists work, with two of them currently in hiding because of an arrest order issued by a judge on 16 May and third receiving repeated telephone threats because of an article published yesterday. “The absence of change at the head of the federal government apparently means that nothing will...

Reporters Without Borders reiterated its call for the release of Armando Betancourt, 45, as he today completed a year in detention without trial. A contributor to the Nueva Prensa Cubana website and founder of the underground magazine El Camagüeyano, he was arrested by the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) on 23 May 2006 in the central city of Camagüey. “Betancourt’s only offense was to work as...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the government’s intention to try journalist Yuri Chernogayev, a Tashkent-based freelancer for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The prosecutor’s office told him on 18 May that he will soon be formally charged with a range of offences including threatening national security. He faces up to 10 years in prison. “This is a travesty of justice...

Back in March 2004, Mukesh Kapila, the top U.N. official in Sudan at the time, grabbed the media limelight for Darfur by appearing on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and describing the conflict as "ethnic cleansing" and "the world's greatest humanitarian crisis". He compared the killing that began in Sudan's western region in early 2003 to Rwanda, and asked why the world wasn't doing more. His...