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HANOI - Vietnam has suspended a business magazine and is considering revoking the press credentials of all its reporters and editors in an ongoing crackdown on state-controlled media’s critical reporting, local news outlets reported on Sunday. The Ministry of Culture and Information signed the decision to suspend Kinh Doanh & San Pham magazine on Sunday, according to the online newspaper VNExpress...

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaia was murdered shortly after she entered her apartment building in central Moscow on Oct. 7. The building's security system was in working order, and she pushed the right buttons to open the door. The assassin was waiting inside. His slim figure was caught on security video. Politkovskaia's murder was one of many. On Oct. 16, Anatoly Voronin, financial director...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Sudanese authorities' harassment of local and foreign journalists, which has been stepped up since the summer of 2006, barely one year after President Omar al-Bashir announced he was lifting the state of emergency. "At least 15 journalists have been arrested since the start of the year, as the government responded in an authoritarian and...

MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - Investigators know the motive for the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the first deputy prosecutor general said Friday. Politkovskaya, 48, known for her staunch criticism of the Kremlin and its military campaign in Chechnya, was gunned down in her apartment building in Moscow October 7. "Investigators know the details and motive of this...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine media groups on Tuesday accused the president's husband of trying to muzzle a critical press by filing a string of libel cases against 43 journalists and publishers. The National Union of Journalists denounced arrest warrants issued this week for a former opposition senator and the publisher and chief reporters of Malaya, a daily newspaper critical of President...

New York, October 17, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is disappointed that the legal battle to win justice in the case of murdered Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov has come to an end with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights not to pursue the case. Kholodov was killed 12 years ago today. The court in Strasbourg, France ruled Monday that it could not take up the case...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The only thing that surprised Abdolreza Tajik when the Iranian authorities shut the pro-reform newspaper where he worked was that it had survived so long since last year's election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But when the order to close Sharq came in September it confirmed his suspicions that the government of Ahmadinejad, who rails against the West and vows a return to...

MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court said Monday it has scheduled a hearing on an appeal against the acquittal of three people accused of murdering Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, for October 31. On May 5, a jury acquitted Fail Sadretdinov and two co-defendants, Chechens Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhayev, of Klebnikov's 2004 killing. Prosecutors in the case appealed to the...

Anatoly Voronin, 55, Tass's business manager, died "from stab and slash wounds", a spokeswoman for the Moscow prosecutor's office said. The business chief of Russian state news agency Itar-Tass was found knifed to death at his flat in central Moscow on Monday, but prosecutors said the killing could be linked to a personal dispute. Anatoly Voronin, 55, Tass's business manager, died "from stab and...

Over the weekend, at almost the same time the world was informed that Google was vying to pay US$1.65 billion for YouTube, a two-year-old video-sharing Web site, famed Russian journalist Asnna Politkovskaya was gunned down in Moscow. Politkovskaya covered human-rights abuses in Chechnya. She was also a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and Russian authorities consider her death...