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Reporters Without Borders today called for the release of two freelance journalists, arrested while covering an opposition demonstration two days ago in the capital Harare. It also protested against a brutal beating police meted out to a former editor. Nothing has been heard of Tsvangirai Mukwazhi, a freelance photographer working for the US-owned Associated Press (AP), since Zimbabwean police...

(CMFR/IFEX) - An unidentified individual on a motorcycle bombed the service vehicle of dxCC (828kHz), a radio station of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), while it was parked in front of the station in Cagayan de Oro city, Misamis Oriental, on 13 March 2007, at around 2:45 a.m. (local time). Cagayan de Oro is in northern Mindanao, the Philippines' second largest island. No one was reported hurt in...

MOSCOW — A Russian journalist is seeking asylum in the United States after being beaten and suffering kidney failure in a suspected poisoning attempt, London’s Sunday Times reported. The award-winning journalist, who has reported on events in the Caucasus, has been “promised political asylum” in the United States, the newspaper reported Sunday. The Sunday Times did not disclose the identity of the...

Prosecutors have demanded that a Jakarta court punish the editor of Playboy Indonesia with a two-year jail term for distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them, Reuters has reported. The magazine's first edition sparked protests in Indonesia April 2006 although it had no nudity and less flesh visible in the issue than many other magazines on sale in the world's most...

BBC’s Alan Johnston was the 15th journalist to be abducted in the Gaza Strip since 2004, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). All of the 14 previously abducted journalists were released unharmed, the majority after several hours in captivity. Palestinian Fatah gunmen march during a rally asking for jobs in the Palestinian security forces, at a Rafah camp in the...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some sports fans may now know as much about global warming as they know about women's swimwear: Sports Illustrated this week tells readers how a warming world is going to change the state of play. The American male's favorite read for its sports coverage and annual swimsuit issue is just one of many U.S. magazines coming out with global warming on their covers as awareness...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, March 13, 2007 - The leader of a local group of private press editors was jailed on Monday in the capital Bangui over statements critical of the governmental High Communication Council (HCC). Editor Michel Alkhaly Ngady of the private weekly Les Temps Nouveaux and the president of GEPPIC, a local organization of publishers, was summoned and jailed in a police station near...

Iran has lifted a ban on a leading reformist daily but closed down two weeklies. The Iranian government Sunday lifted the ban on Shargh which had been shut down last September by Iran’s press watchdog. An Iranian woman looks at Shargh newspaper, before the popular daily was shut down last September. Iran’s hardline judiciary has closed down over 100 reformist and moderate publications and websites...

NEW YORK: During its most recent board meeting last week, directors at the Audit Bureau of Circulations proposed ways to integrate online audience estimates in its semi-annual reports. For newspapers, the board provided preliminary approval to work with the Newspaper Association of America and Scarborough Research to fold their data into reports. The intent is for ABC to allow newspaper publishers...

The Spanish High Court has decided to close a case in which the family of a cameraman killed in Iraq sought the arrest and questioning of three US soldiers, ruling that his death was a mistaken act of war, a Reuters report has said. JUSTICE DENIED: The Couso family. The court's decision was "outrageous and disgraceful'' and the family was going to appeal Friday's ruling, said Javier Couso, brother...