(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by reports at least 42 journalists are currently facing libel charges filed by Juan Miguel "Mike" Arroyo, the husband of Philippines President Gloria Arroyo. According to information released by IFJ affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), the president's husband has sued 42 journalists...
An independent network of journalists in four Central Asian countries has launched an innovative, web-based news analysis service – News Briefing Central Asia. STAFF WORKSHOP: Particpants at a workshop of the International War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic October 30, 2001. The agency used a pilot phase begun in August to build up a strong team of journalists and editors
Press freedom and human rights groups around the world have expressed outrage at the death in custody of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist Ogulsapar Muradova. Muradova, 58, died in prison in Turkmenistan with reported injuries to her head, RFE/RL said. DEATH UNNATURAL: This picture released by Radio Free Europe and taken in Ashgabat in 2004 during a wedding, shows Ogulsapar
Six years after Ukranian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze was murdered, his killers remain unpunished. Worse, press freedom organisations fear justice may never be done. ALWAYS REMEMBERED: Ukranian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze disappeared on September 16, 2000. Two months later, a body with the cut-off head was found in the woodland near Kiev and identified as that of Gongadze. The death of Ukrayinska
ISLAMABAD: A former secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists suffered injuries when Federal Minister of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar Khan’s guards thrashed him outside Parliament House, news reports said. The incident occurred when the deputy editor of the daily Ausaf, C R Shamsi, requested the minister to solve the longstanding 7th Wage Board Award...
An international press freedom watchdog has urged Eritrea to free 13 journalists who have been held "incommunicado" in secret jails for the past five years without trial. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also denounced the continued detention of the journalists, who were seized in a 2001 government crackdown. "Not only is the government continuing to hold these prisoners...
New York, September 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the ruling of an Iranian appeals court upholding a one-year prison sentence against Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand. The court of appeals in the northwestern province of Kurdistan ordered him to serve the suspended jail term, the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA)...
(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, September 15, 2006 - Five years after Eritrea's brutal crackdown on the independent press, the Committee to Protect Journalists today called for the release of 13 journalists held incommunicado in secret jails and two other journalists forced into extended military service. Basic information about the jailed journalists - most of whom were swept up in a September 18, 2001...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Senior journalist, Maqbool Hussain Siyal, who was also a district Correspondent for Online News Network, DIK, was shot dead by some unidentified gunmen. The 32-year old journalist was on his way to meet PPPP leader Nawab Azek ‘s residence when two unknown gunmen riding a bike fired upon him near a Toyota showroom situated on the northern Circular Road. Bullets pierced the...
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Five journalists from Australia`s "Channel Seven" television station will be deported later on Thursday for violating Indonesia`s immigration law by entering Papua province on tourist visas. "They have clearly violated their visa-on-arrival which is only valid for tourist activities or a social visit, not for working," Desra Percaya, a spokesman of the Indonesian Foreign...
