Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll today called on other news organizations, especially those that use AP services, to increase their attention on imprisoned AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by U.S. military officials in Iraq for more than six months without being charged. Saying Hussein “works on behalf of every news organization that receives news from the...
NEW YORK: Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll today called on other news organizations, especially those that use AP services, to increase their attention on imprisoned AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by U.S. military officials in Iraq for more than six months without being charged. Saying Hussein “works on behalf of every news organization that receives news from...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is brushing off a request for more information and a decision on an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. In a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, does not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein remains at a U.S. run prison camp. The letter repeats the military...
GAZA CITY (CNN) -- An Associated Press photographer abducted in Gaza earlier Tuesday has been freed, Palestinian security and political sources told CNN Tuesday night. The AP and a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman identified the photographer as 37-year-old Emilio Morenatti. The AP reported that Morenatti was kidnapped as he was leaving his temporary apartment in Gaza and heading toward a car...
JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - In a little over a year, the Gaza Strip has gone from being a possible model for a future Palestinian state to becoming a den of lawlessness and infighting with few signs stability will return soon. The kidnapping on Tuesday of a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press -- at least the 24th abduction of a foreigner working in Gaza since August 2005 -- has...
(IFJ/IFEX) - In response to the recent deterioration of the security situation in the country, which has contributed to an uncertain environment in which the media operates, a group of editors and journalists from South Asia is visiting Sri Lanka from 23-25 October 2006. The Mission members include: Bharat Bhushan, Editor (Delhi), The Telegraph; Prateek Pradhan, Editor, The Kathmandu Post, Nepal...
(RSF/IFEX) - Police and some judges deliberately sabotaged and then blocked judicial steps against members of the pro-government EPDP party implicated in the murder in 2000 of Tamil journalist Mayilvaganam Nimalarajan at his home in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, said Reporters Without Borders. The result has been that six years after the death of the BBC World Service journalist, his killers have...
NEW YORK: On Sept. 11, 2001, Megan Stack, the Houston bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, was vacationing in Paris. Following the terrorist attacks that day, she e-mailed her editors to say she was coming home. Their answer surprised her: Stay in Europe -- you'll be more useful there. In retrospect, it was quite an understatement. Stack, 30, is now the Cairo bureau chief for the Times. Since...
The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, in a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, did not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein continues to be held without...
NEW YORK — The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, in a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, did not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein continues to be held...
