State Impunity

The Russian prosecutor-general's office has completed its investigation into the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and sent the case to court, Interfax news agency reported Thursday. It was not immediately clear Thursday which court will hear the case. Politkovskaya, an award-winning reporter for the Novaya Gazeta, was one of the strongest critics in the Russian media of the...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called for a review of the trial of alleged regional drug baron Ceferino García, who was acquitted by a court in Maturín, in the northeastern Venezuelan state of Monagas, on August 28 of masterminding the murder of Mauro Marcano. A radio and newspaper journalist, Marcano was gunned down outside his Maturín home on September 1, 2004. "This verdict is a victory...

Roza Malsagova, the editor of the Ingushetiya.ru website, Ingushetia’s only source of independent news and information, has just lost an ally in her struggle against the government’s determination to suppress all coverage of human rights abuses in this southern Russian republic, which adjoins Chechnya and which is contaminated by the region’s conflicts. Magomed Yevloyev, the site’s owner

Russian federal authorities must undertake a thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into Sunday’s shocking death of Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the popular news website Ingushetiya, who was killed in the custody of police in Ingushetia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Yevloyev died from a gunshot wound to the head while being transported by Ingush police following...

A government vehicle was used to ransack the offices of two Senegalese independent newspapers on Sunday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has eported. The attacks came just three days after a top official threatened unspecified retaliation against the papers over critical stories. A dozen unidentified men stormed the offices of the daily 24 Heures Chrono at about 8:30 p.m...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called for more police to investigate the killings of five journalists in the Philippines since the beginning of 2008, including the latest victim, former radio presenter Rolando Anjo Julia, in the central province of Camarines Sur. "Until the motives for these crimes have been discovered and their authors punished, people will continue to doubt the ability of...

The results of an Israeli Army investigation, clearing a tank crew of any wrong-doing in the killing of Reuters' cameraman Fadel Shana in April in the Gaza Strip, could endanger all media professionals working in the Palestinian Territories, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has said. "This inquiry, which has been farcical in its nature, is likely to make life even more dangerous...

The Israeli government should carry out an independent investigation into the killing of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. New York-based CPJ also called on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to work with journalists and media groups to ensure that journalists operating in the Gaza Strip are able to do their jobs safely. An Israeli military investigation...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is dismayed by the failure of the Egyptian authorities to shed light on the disappearance of a prominent journalist, five years ago, in one of the most secure districts in Cairo. Reda Helal, a senior editor at Egypt's leading state-owned daily Al-Ahram, mysteriously vanished on August 11, 2003, on his way home from work in a heavily guarded area in the

One year after the murder of US journalist Chauncey Bailey, investigation into the incident has not made any progress. Instead, the case has become more complicated as new information surrounding the motives for Bailey's murder has come to light. Evidence, some recorded by the police and some uncovered by investigative reporters, points at someone other than the currently accused defendant as a...