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The International Press Institute (IPI) has announced its decision to honour the independent newspaper, Yemen Times, with its 2006 Free Media Pioneer Award. Mr. Raidan Al-Saqqaf, Member of the newspaper's Board of Directors, will receive the prize on behalf of the Yemen Times at an award ceremony on 30 May, during the forthcoming IPI World Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland (27-30 May). Founded in...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at the imprisonment of pro-reform intellectual and journalist Ramin Jahanbeglou, who was arrested at Tehran airport on 28 April 2006 after criticising the Iranian government in a series of interviews for Canadian, Spanish and French newspapers in recent weeks. He was transferred to Evin prison on 4 May. "We call for the immediate release of...

New York, May 5, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the criminal defamation conviction of Venezuelan journalist Henry Crespo, who was handed an 18-month suspended jail term after reporting on government corruption. Crespo, a reporter for the Caracas-based weekly Las Verdades de Miguel, was sentenced by the Caracas Eighteenth Tribunal on Wednesday. The suit was brought in...

The convenient attitude assumed by the media during the dictatorship of Stroessner is today one of the most forbearing stories told. And it is curious that it happens this way, since the media, except in some cases, was closely linked to the bloodthirsty dictator. Journalism and servilism The convenient attitude assumed by the media during the dictatorship of Stroessner is today one of the most...

afrol News, 5 May - The case against ne of Senegal's most prominent journalist, Madiambal Diagne, was dropped on Tuesday on a procedural issue, ending a legal saga that spanned nearly two years and galvanised the Senegalese press. Mr Diagne, owner and managing editor of the popular independent newspaper 'Le Quotidien', had been sued after disclosing corruption. The charges against 'Le Quotidien'...

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- A Russian jury absolved two Chechens in the murder of Paul Klebnikov, the American editor of Forbes Inc.'s Russian edition whose killing in 2004 heightened concerns about press freedoms in the former Soviet state. Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhayev were found not guilty today by a jury of eight women and four men after a three-month closed trial in Moscow, a spokesman for the...

A Russian court on Friday acquitted both defendants standing trial for the 2004 murder of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, the Reuters news agency reported citing a lawyer for one of the defendants. "The jurors have completely acquitted all of them on all charges. I am very pleased that (the jury) have worked out what’s what in this case and looked at all the evidence fully," said Ruslan Khasanov...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani student who was arrested for allegedly trying to hurt a German newspaper editor for publishing Prophet Muhammad cartoons has died in custody in Berlin, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday. Tasnim Aslam identified the student as Amer Cheema, but would not say exactly when he had been arrested. She said an initial report from Berlin suggested that Cheema...

The publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad caused outrage and violence across the Muslim world several months ago. Now a militant Muslim group with a presence in Germany and other European nations has published a list of newspapers that reprinted the cartoons, urging Muslims to take action against Western journalists. The article in the latest issue of an online journal published...

THE snub was too great for Gallic pride. France had suffered an indignity when, in February 2003, CNN failed to broadcast applause at the United Nations for a speech by Dominique de Villepin, then the Foreign Minister, opposing the war in Iraq. For President Chirac it was time for action. If CNN would not show the world’s diplomats clapping his ministers, then he would have to do it himself. He is...