The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) have condemned the threats and attack against Vladimir Vjestic, the editor-in-chief of Radio BUS in Kovin. Radio BUS announced on Monday that its editor-in-chief, Vladimir Vjestic, was threatened on Saturday, February 21, by Predrag Milovanovic, a private entrepreneur from Kovin...
Police arrests of two Jamaican journalists in one week were an abuse of power, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has said, and called for a full investigation of the two cases. Those arrested by police in Kingston were: Julian Richardson, financial journalist for the daily Jamaica Observer and Ricardo Makyn, a photographer for the daily the Gleaner. Richardson was arrested and threatened with death...
The semi-private Swazi Observer newspaper has successfully challenged a High Court ruling which had restrained the newspaper from reporting on a leadership dispute in the Jericho Church, an indigenous Christian denomination, according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). The order, granted by Judge Stanley Maphalala on February 12, was set aside by another High Court judge, Justice...
The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has condemned pressures exerted on the daily newspaper Borba after publication of an article about the decision made by the Government of Serbia to pay one million dollars to ensure that the trial of Miladin Kovacevic, accused of inflicting injuries on American student Brian Steinhauer, will be held in Serbia instead of in the US. The police...
Bienvenu Yay, an independent journalist and the Mbandaka correspondent for the Kinshasa-based, private television station Congoweb TV, was on February 20 handed down a six-month sentence and ordered to pay US$2,500 in damages for slandering José Makila, deposed governor of Équateur province, according to delayed reports. Mbandaka is located in the northeastern province of Équateur. Yay, according...
Newly appointed Media, Information and Publicity Deputy Minister Jameson Timba has promised to restore media freedom in Zimbabwe by immediately allowing closed publications to reopen and freeing the airwaves in accordance with Article 19 of the Global Political Agreement (GPA), which states that the government shall ensure the immediate processing by the appropriate authorities of all applications...
All copies of the February 18 issue of the Moscow-based biweekly Novaya Gazeta that were to have sold in the Moscow satellite town of Khimki were bought up by the local authorities prior to distribution so that the only way for Khimki residents to be able to read its content was to go the newspaper’s website, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The issue included an open letter from a...
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the s decision by judge Tatsiana Miranyuk of a district court in the western city of Brest to order the immediate seizure and destruction of the seventh and eighth issues of the opposition cultural magazine Arche on the grounds that their content was “extremist”. “We are again confronted by an absurd logic,” RSF said. “The administrative and judicial...
The Egyptian judiciary has imposed a fine on five journalists for violating a ban on media coverage of a murder trial involving an influential businessman who is a member of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. In a hearing attended by CPJ Thursday, the Sayyida Zainab Misdemeanors Court sentenced Magdi al-Galad, Yusri al-Badri, and Faruq...
Two independent journalists have arrested on trumped-up charges in Uzbekistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. On Sunday, prosecutors in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, detained Dilmurod Saiid on charges of extortion, the independent news website Uznews reported. Saiid writes for a number of independent and pro-opposition websites, local CPJ sources said. In a separate case...
