Uncategorised

(CEPET/IFEX) - A federal electoral court (Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, TEPJF) has ordered the magazine "Hora Cero" to abstain from publishing material "that offends or denigrates, or undermines the reputation or dignity" of Gerardo Peña Flores, the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) candidate for the mayoralty of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in northeastern...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Ernesto de la Cueva Bello, reporter and editor of the cultural section for the state of Mexico edition of the daily newspaper "Milenio", announced in an open letter that he fears for his life after having been informed that the mayor of Metepec, Óscar González Yáñez, has ordered his murder. De la Cueva told CEPET, "I have written nothing critical of Óscar González Yáñez, but I am...

On the eve of an EU-Russia summit in Mafra (Portugal), Reporters Without Borders today condemned an assault on documentary filmmaker Natalia Petrova and her family by plain-clothes police in the Tatar capital of Kazan, 720 km east of Moscow, on 6 September as “horrible and incomprehensible” and demanded an immediate investigation to identify and punish those responsible. “It is no longer possible...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about physical attacks on six journalists at Viru Viru airport in the eastern department of Santa Cruz during an operation on 18 and 19 October by police and troops to oust demonstrators in the pay of the Santa Cruz government. Public and privately-owned media were again the victims of political tension, which is growing in violence, especially in...

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the murders of freelance photographer Carlos Alberto Jaramillo and his assistant, Julio César García, who were shot dead while driving in their car near the southwestern city of Cali on 21 October. The motive for this double-killing has not been established but, after a wave of forced departures of journalists in what is one of the more dangerous...

New York, October 25, 2007—A Congolese government minister invited two television journalists to his office in the capital, Kinshasa, and then ordered police to beat them when they arrived, according to news reports and local press freedom group Journaliste en Danger. The incident came on the heels of a government decree summarily banning 38 private broadcasters over alleged regulatory...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about the conditions in which journalist Emadoldin Baghi has been held since his arrest 10 days ago. Facing new charges of “propaganda against the government” and “publishing secret government documents,” he has been subjected to mental and physical mistreatment. “The Iranian authorities stop at nothing in their hounding of Baghi,” the press freedom...

(CEMESP/IFEX) - On 22 October 2007, Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis threatened to imprison journalists for committing such "infractions" as "misspelling his name", "giving him wrong and inappropriate titles" and "attaching his photos to stories that have nothing to do with him in their papers." Lewis made the threats in open court, with the heads of several newspapers in attendance by invitation. The...

Kazan journalist Natalya Petrova, a former colleague of Anna Politkovskaya who covered the first Chechen war, fears for the lives of her children. In an interview on the 24th, she told that ever since she was brutally attacked by local militsiya officers, she has been receiving phone-calls threatening a repeat performance. According to the journalist, one of the calls went like this: “We will...

Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that Giovanni Alvarez, a community radio journalist who had criticised political corruption in the northern department of Atlántico, was forced to flee the country on 19 October after getting death threats. His departure brings the number of Colombian journalists who have fled their region or the country since the start of the year to four. “The forced...