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An Ethiopian court on Monday convicted journalist and magazine owner Temesghen Desalegn in connection with a 2012 defamation case, according to news reports and local journalists. The Federal High Court in the capital, Addis Ababa, found Temesghen guilty of incitement, defamation, and false publication in connection with a series of opinion pieces published in Feteh ("Justice"), the journalist's...

Reporters Without Borders has condemned media worker Kadri Bagdu’s murder Tuesday while distributing the Kurdish dailies Azadiya Welat and Özgür Gündem in Seyhan, in the southeastern province of Adana. His targeted killing harks back to the darkest hours of Turkey’s recent history. Bagdu, 46, was distributing the newspapers free of charge on the street in the Sakir Pasa district of Seyhan...

Libya’s journalists are still among the leading victims of the political turmoil and violence that have been a constant ever since Col Gaddafi’s overthrow in the 2011 revolution. Armed clashes are continuing despite an attempt by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to broker a ceasefire and talks between the various political players and armed factions two weeks ago in the...

Reporters Without Borders has expressed relief at learning that three German journalists arrested in Diyarbakir on Saturday have been released pending further investigation. The organisation called on the Turkish judiciary to immediately drop all charges against the journalists and allow them to continue their work without restrictions. “Journalists must not be criminalised for reporting on...

Jihadi group Islamic State murdered another Iraqi journalist Monday in Mosul (in the northern province of Nineveh), just two days after publicly executing an Iraqi journalist in Samara (in Salahuddin province). The latest victim was Mohanad Al-Aqidi, the Sada news agency’s Mosul correspondent and a former presenter on now closed Al-Mowseliya TV. Kidnapped in July on his way to Dohuk province, he...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), have condemned the attempted murder of senior Somali journalist and TV personality, Abdirisak Jama Elmi (Black), on October 12. According to reports, Elmi, director of Somali Channel TV office in Mogadishu, was attacked when he was leaving his house in Howl-Wadag district. The TV journalist was...

Security officials of Grupo Últimas Noticias (Grupo ÚN) forcefully removed journalist Odell López, the ÚN political correspondent, from the media conglomerate's facilities on October 1 after refusing to quit her job last September 30, when the HR department asked her to resign, according to Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela. After this incident, the journalist went to the public...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Cambodian Association for the Protection of Journalists (CAPJ) have expressed outrage over the shooting murder of a Cambodian journalist in Ksiem Krao village, in the Snoul district of Kratie province in northeastern Cambodia on Sunday. Two police and one armed forces soldier have been arrested for the murder and IFJ has called on the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have joined international calls for the 20 Syrian-Kurdish journalists and media workers detained by Turkish military forces to be released with immediate effect. The journalists were forced to leave the city of Kobani, northern Syria, after fighting intensified between Kurdish forces protecting the...

Youth and Sports Minister of Zambia Chishimba Kambwili has threatened to dismiss reporters at UNZA Radio, and has accused them of being sponsored by his enemies, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has reported. According to The Post newspaper, on October 8, Kambwili stormed UNZA Radio in the company of an unknown man in an effort to intimidate student reporters. He demanded to see...