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CHISINAU (MHM) - On 27 March 2007, as the film crew from ProTV Chisinau focused their cameras on a peaceful opposition party rally in the Moldovan capital, the police moved in. Members of the crew were arrested and held for questioning along with more than a dozen marchers. While this was happening, a crew from DTV, which was filming the arrests, had the tape removed from their camera. Both crews...

So London, the magazine that proudly trumpeted itself as focusing on "shameless luxury", is understood to have folded after two issues. Edited by former Mail on Sunday journalist Christena Appleyard, the magazine launched little more than a week ago with a big-name team, but its owner was inexperienced in publishing. The magazine is preparing to put out a statement tomorrow morning. Its PR company...

(CEMESP/IFEX) - "The Independent" newspaper, which was banned by the government for publishing a sex photo of former presidential affairs minister, Willie Knuckles, has been ordered by the Supreme Court of Liberia to return to "status quo ante." The court's latest ruling is a result of a challenge by "The Independent" through its legal counsel, Attorney-at-Law Syema Syrenius Cephus, protesting the...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is deeply disappointed by Panamanian President Martín Torrijos' decision, on 21 March 2007, to endorse two articles in the newly-amended criminal code that violate press freedom. "By approving these two articles, President Torrijos is restricting the freedom of action of journalists to the point of preventing them from fulfilling the role they are meant to play in a democracy,"...

ANKARA, Turkey: A right-wing politician detained for questioning in connection with the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist was released Tuesday without charge. But police were still questioning three other members of the local branch of the conservative and nationalist Great Unity Party over the Jan. 19 murder of journalist Hrant Dink. The three were scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday...

Prosecutors in Uzbekistan have opened criminal proceedings against a reporter for Deutsche Welle for tax evasion and working without accreditation, the German broadcaster has reported. Natalia Bushuyeva, an Uzbek citizen, “is charged with tax evasion and conducting her activity without a licence,” her defence lawyer, Suhrob Ismailov, told news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). The Uzbekistan

Singapore's media regulator said Monday it is looking to expand its jurisdiction from the traditional print and broadcast sector to include the emergence of new media markets. The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) said it was seeking public feedback to its Media Market Conduct Code, which is under review to better address competition issues that may arise under the new landscape. It...

New York, March 26, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists called for the immediate release of Daily Star reporter E.A.M. Asaduzzaman Tipu, who was jailed in the northern Bangladesh district of Nilphamari on Wednesday. The correspondent suffered a severe asthma attack two days after being arrested for his reporting on official mismanagement, the Dhaka-based daily reported. “It seems clear that...

CAIRO, March 24 — Saudi Arabia has barred entry to a Washington-based Israeli journalist traveling with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on his current Middle East tour, the United Nations said today. Mr. Ban is going to Riyadh on Tuesday for two days of the summit meeting of the League of Arab States. Orly Azoulay, the Washington bureau chief of Yediot Aharonot, was unable to obtain a visa to Saudi...

Jordan’s lower house of parliament Wednesday voted to endorse writing off a controversial clause whoch provided for imprisonment of journalists in the new press and printing draft law, acording to news reports. Jordanian journalists protest against the adoption of a law allowing the imprisonment of journalists, in front of the parliament in Amman March 4, 2007. The banner reads, 'A free press =