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(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, who is being held by the authorities in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, Somalia, on claims he aired reports allegedly supporting the Islamic Courts. Guled, a stringer for the Mogadishu-based radio station Simba, was arrested in the...

(WAN/IFEX) - Paris, 4 December 2006: The World Association of Newspapers has welcomed today's decision by a Danish court to acquit three journalists accused of illegally publishing intelligence secrets in newspaper reports about Denmark's decision to go to war in Iraq. "This verdict is a victory for press freedom, for the public interest and for the media's role as watchdog over governments and...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, December 4, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists renewed its appeal to Mexican federal authorities today to take over the investigation into the killing of U.S. journalist Bradley Roland Will after two local officials suspected in his shooting were freed. Will, 36, an independent documentary filmmaker and reporter for the news Web site Indymedia, was killed covering...

New York, December 4, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists said today it was investigating whether the shooting of journalist Arnie Pullan on the central Philippine island of Iloilo was related to his work as a radio host. An unidentified gunman shot and seriously wounded Pullan on December 1 as he left the station of MBC-Radio Natin in the town of Estancia. Pullan hosts a radio show called...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, December 1, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists said today it was investigating whether the shooting death of Adolfo Sánchez Guzmán was related to his work as reporter for the Mexican news Web site Orizaba en Vivo. The journalist's body was found yesterday on the banks of the Blanco River near Mendoza, 74 miles (120 kilometers) from Xalapa, capital of the...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about a government decision, taken at a cabinet meeting on 27 November 2006, that all websites dealing with Iran will have to register with the culture ministry in the next two months. The new rule will probably be difficult to implement and seems designed above all to give the authorities grounds to close down independent news sites....

(CEMESP/IFEX) - On 1 December 2006, two editors of the independent "Public Agenda" newspaper in Liberia's capital Monrovia complained of threats on their lives by people believed to be agents of Special Security Service (SSS) Director Chris Massaquoi. Managing Editor Gibson Jerue and Editor-in-Chief Lyndon Ponnie said the agents have been threatening to "get rid" of them if they continue critical...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the opening of a formal judicial investigation into three journalists with the Montpellier-based daily "Midi Libre" on suspicion of "violating professional confidentiality." It stems from a complaint by former Languedoc-Roussillon regional council president Jacques Blanc of the ruling UMP party over a leaked official audit. "We very much hope a...

Islamabad --- Media in Pakistan faced at least 14 recorded incidents of attacks and harassment in November, raising the total number of such incidents to 114 during the current year, says a report issued by an international media NGO here on Friday. According to the report, titled "State of Pakistani Media Freedom," various government agencies, militant groups and a political party were reportedly...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (November 30, 2006) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today called on newspaper readers throughout the Americas to sign a public letter to Mexico's President requesting his collaboration to solve the February 22, 1988 murder of journalist Manuel Burgueño Orduño. Burgueño, who worked as a columnist for the Mazatlán, Sinaloa state, newspaper El Sol del...