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Radio Liberty journalist Ogulsapar Muradova has died in prison in Turkmenistan with reported injuries to her head, the station says. A relative reported the news after family members were asked by officials to identify her body in a mortuary in the capital, Ashgabat. Her children are quoted as saying the body has "marks on the neck" and a "large wound" on the head. Turkmen officials reportedly...

VILNIUS - Lithuania’s State Security Department came under attack last week after detaining a journalist for procuring and intending to publish state secrets. Both the president and journalists decried the move as a violation of the freedom of the press, and several MPs have taken the department’s top officials to task. The department, meanwhile, has launched an investigation into the leak, and...

SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Singapore's prime minister and his father, the founding father of the city-state, have filed a defamation suit against the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), according to court documents. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former premier Lee Kuan Yew filed the libel suit against Hong Kong-based Review Publishing Company Ltd and FEER...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A senior Sudanese politician threatened to resign on Tuesday over what he said was the resurgence of censorship against Sudanese newspapers since the assassination of a journalist last week. Yasser Arman, deputy secretary-general of the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), said he could no longer enforce Sudan's constitutional rules on freedom of...

Reporters of the Islamic Republic News Agency's (IRNA) office at UN Headquarters in New York have been slapped new restrictions by the US government to deter activities in covering news events, it was reported here Tuesday. The IRNA website in Manhattan district has been blocked since 22:00 hours Friday (local time). After several contacts with Manhattan officials, the office was told the problem...

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision rejecting a motion against a southwest Siberian news agency following a media scandal over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a court source said Tuesday. Satirical cartoons of the Prophet were published in a Danish newspaper last September and subsequently reprinted by other Western media earlier this year...

Colombo, 12 September, (Asiantribune.com): The Footwear Association of Sri Lanka has published its first monthly newsletter Footwear Newst to increase awareness of local small and medium sized footwear manufacturers. Issuing a press notice Chairman of the Association Mr.K,L.Chandralal de Silva says small footwear manufacturers always need assistance of the large scale footwear manufacturers to...

New York, September 11, 2006—Islamist authorities detained a journalist for two days and shut an independent radio station for a similar period in separate incidents this weekend, according to news reports and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). In Beledweyne, a western town controlled by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), authorities jailed journalist Osman Adan Areys of the private...

"Today it is impossible to prevent publication," says the new president of the Israel Press Council, Dalia Dorner. "If newspaper A does not publish certain material, it will be published by newspaper B, and if not by newspaper B then on television, and if not on television then in a blog." This was the former justice's response to the not-so-hypothetical question of how she would react if she...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan radio reporter and human rights activist was found shot to death in his car on Sunday, police said, the latest in a wave of attacks and death threats against journalists in the country. Eduardo Maas, 58, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the central town of Coban, said local police investigating his murder. During the Central American country's...