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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for a thorough and impartial investigation into a traffic accident in which Sok Serei, one of the Cambodia correspondents of Radio Free Asia's Khmer-language service, was knocked off his motorcycle and seriously injured. "As there are witnesses who say a vehicle deliberately struck Sok Serei's motorcycle, it would seem the authorities should...

The Moscow city government has refused permission for a parade to honor Anna Politkovskaya and other Russian journalists killed in recent years. A Moscow journalists' group planned the event for next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy said. The group said all it sought was permission to march peacefully through the center of the city. Politkovskaya, who reported for Novaya Gazeta on human...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on its network of more than 100 unions and associations around the world to give their backing to a nationwide series of unified protests in India on Thursday. The country's three major journalists groups - the Indian Journalists' Union, the National Union of Journalists, India and the All India Newspaper Employees...

(HRW/IFEX) - (New York, December 12, 2006) - The Iranian Judiciary should prosecute officials responsible for the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several bloggers in 2004, instead of prosecuting the bloggers for expressing their opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 3, branch 1059 of Tehran's Judiciary commenced a trial against four men, Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, Shahram...

MEXICO CITY: A month ago, the death of Bradley Will seemed cut and dried. The independent New York City journalist was shot in the chest while videotaping a lopsided confrontation between gunmen who supported the beleaguered governor of Oaxaca and protesters demanding his ouster. Pictures of some of the gunmen, with their names, had appeared on the front pages of all the major papers. The two...

New York, December 11, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed that a year after the assassination of leading Lebanese journalist Gebran Tueni in Beirut, the perpetrators remain at large. On December 12, 2005, Tueni, managing director and columnist for the leading daily Al-Nahar, was killed by a bomb that targeted his armored vehicle in east Beirut. Tueni was also a member of...

Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at the death of a radio presenter who has been murdered in the north of the country, bringing to 11 the number of journalists and media workers killed in the Philippines in 2006. “The death of Ponciano Grande, 53, tragically confirms that the wave of murders of journalists and political activists has still not been halted,” the worldwide press freedom...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a decision by the Croatian state radio and TV broadcaster HRT to suspend two of its journalists, Danko Druzijanic and Goran Rotim, for broadcasting comments by President Stepan Mesic in which he spoke approvingly of Croatia's fascist past during the Second World War. HRT director general Mirko Galic suspended them for "lack of professionalism."...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders paid homage today to the 68 media personnel - including editors, reporters, photographers, cameramen and printing press workers - who were among the 4,000 people murdered or disappeared during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Pinochet's death yesterday prevents justice being fully rendered to his victims and their families but does not mean these crimes...

(12-10) 04:00 PDT Mexico City -- It was another grisly death. On Nov. 21, Roberto Marcos Garcia, a 50-year-old crime reporter in the eastern state of Veracruz, was shot dead after being knocked off his motorcycle by a Chrysler PT Cruiser in full view of lunchtime diners at a roadside seafood restaurant on the outskirts of Veracruz city. "He had received threats, mostly anonymous calls," said Luis...