(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today supported a call by Members of Parliament (MP) in Uganda that the government allows private Nation Television (NTV) to resume its broadcasts after state regulators shut the channel down 19 days ago allegedly because some transmission equipment does not conform to technical standards. Yesterday some MPs backed a motion ordering...
(MISA/IFEX) - The Mozambican chapter of MISA welcomes the decision by the Supreme Court to reject the appeals made by the six men who were found guilty in January 2003 of the murder of the country's top investigative reporter, Carlos Cardoso. Three of the six - Vicente Ramaya, and the brothers Momade Assife Abdul Satar ("Nini") and Ayob Abdul Satar - are business figures. Ramaya was manager of a...
An Alexandria court convicted a Egyptian blogger on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced him to four years in jail over his writings on the Internet, according to Reuters. Abdel Karim Nabil Suleiman, who was arrested on November 6, 2006, got three years for inciting hatred of Islam and one year for insulting the president. The judge dismissed the
(MFWA/IFEX) - Journalists from five international media organizations and a local counterpart were on 20 February 2007 chased out of a meeting by the Battalion Autonome de la Securite Presidentielle (BASP), guards of General Lansana Conte. Two of the guards threatened the journalists with guns. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) correspondent reported that the security men stationed at...
New York, February 22, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the fate of Vladimir Chugunov, founder and editor of the independent weekly Chugunka, who has been imprisoned since January 21, according to his family and the independent Moscow daily Novaya Gazeta. Chugunov was summoned to police headquarters in Solnechnogorsk, 40 miles (64 kilometers) north-west of...
(CJES/IFEX) - Bailiffs seized the property of Georgy Borodyansky, a reporter for the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", in Omsk on 14 February 2007, the radio station Ekho Moskvy reported. The seizure was made on the orders of the Omsk Kuibyshevsky District Court, which ruled in favour of the lawsuit filed by Omsk region's governor, Leonid Polezhayev, against "Novaya Gazeta" and Borodyansky in mid-January...
(RSF/IFEX) - "Vitebsky Kurier", an independent biweekly based in the northeastern city of Vitebsk, appealed to the commercial Supreme Court on 20 February 2007 against an order issued by a lower court on 12 January under which it should be evicted from its premises on 23 February, Reporters Without Borders has learned from Zanna Popova, the head of the company that publishes the newspaper. The...
New York, February 22, 2007—Unidentified gunmen fired shots outside the offices of the Cali-based bimonthly publication La Razón on Tuesday, injuring three people. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether the incident was an attack against the paper’s director, Édgar Buitrago Rico, who had been threatened with death. At 3: 45 p.m. on Tuesday, two armed men approached La Razón...
Two months after announcing new controls on the foreign press in Cuba, the island's government has kicked out a reporter for The Chicago Tribune and given him 90 days to leave the island, the paper reported today. Veteran journalist Gary Marx has reported from the paper's Havana bureau since 2002. The Tribune is one of a handful of U.S.-based news organizations with permission to work in Cuba. '...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to drop sedition charges against three journalists and instead focus on promoting a free and safe press by bringing to justice those responsible for the slaying of 50 journalists since 2001. These latest charges follow a spate of libel cases brought before the courts by the country’s First
