(FNJ/IFEX) - Newspapers at Nepalgunj, Banke, west of Nepal, have stopped publishing since 26 December 2006, following attacks on journalists who were reporting on the Terai Bandh (strike). The strike was called on 25 December by the Nepal Sadbhawana Party-Anandadevi (NSP-A) to express dissatisfaction over the recently signed interim Constitution for allegedly failing to meet the demands of the...
New York, January 3, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists called today on the Nepalese government to investigate attacks on journalists in the western town of Nepalgunj which prompted nine newspapers to suspend publication from December 26 to 30. The attacks came amid sectarian violence that killed one person and injured dozens. “We are concerned that journalists were a specific target of...
New York, January 2, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Monday’s abduction of an Agence France-Presse photographer in the Gaza Strip. Jaime Razuri, a veteran international journalist, was seized by a group of unmasked, armed men as he was entering the news agency’s bureau in Gaza City, AFP reported. Razuri was returning from an assignment with an interpreter and driver when he was...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders today released the report of a visit it made to Gaza and Israel from 4 to 7 December to investigate the disturbing situation of journalists working in the Gaza Strip, to meet with the authorities and to propose ways of improving the security of the media. Palestinian and foreign journalists working in the Palestinian territories are exposed to two different...
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently released its 2006 report on threats to journalists. Iraq is by far the deadliest place for the fourth year in a row, with 32 journalists killed this year. Sad to say, the violence follows a trend that started with the U.S. invasion of Iraq. When you step off the elevator at the Reuters news offices in Washington, D.C., you see a large book sitting on a...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted on Saturday a resolution urging all armies and insurgent groups to protect journalists working in war zones. The council acted days after the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists reported that 32 journalists had been killed this year in Iraq, most of them by insurgents. Around the world, 55 journalists were...
(RSF/IFEX) Reporters Without Borders welcomes the unanimous adoption of Resolution 1738, protecting journalists operating in conflict areas, by the UN Security Council today. The international press freedom organization acknowledges the efforts of the French Foreign Minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, and of French diplomats in initiating and securing the passage of the resolution. Reporters Without...
Karachi, 21 Dec. (AKI/Syed Saleem Shahzad) - A Pakistani district and session court in the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday framed charges of defamation against the editor in chief of The Star newspaper, Kamal Majidullah, chief correspondent Syed Saleem Shahzad and crime reporter Ralph D. Cruzon, under the highly controversial Pakistani Criminal Defamation Law. Majidullah, Shahzad and...
New York, December 20, 2006—Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for the press in a single country that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever recorded. In most cases, such as the killing of Atwar Bahjat, one of the best-known television reporters in the Arab world, insurgents specifically targeted journalists to be murdered, CPJ found in a new...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) supports calls from Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (the Alliance), for full cooperation in an upcoming coroner's inquest into the deaths of five journalists, dubbed the Balibo five, who were killed in 1975 in the East Timorese town of Balibo while covering the Indonesian invasion. According to recent Australian...
