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Cancun - The offices of Cancun's two major newspapers - Por Esto and Que Quintana Roo Se Entere - were the intended target of a multiple grenade attack, police officials said Thursday. But only one person was injured when the explosions occurred outside the buildings, sparing the safety of workers inside. The Red Cross confirmed that a 20-year-old man was treated for superficial wounds of this...

Fiji media organisations have joined forces to fight the Broadcast Licensing Bill which will give control of radio and television broadcasting to the government. The Fiji Sun reports that the Bill has sparked fury and calls have been made not to curtail the media’s watchdog function and leave issues of content to the Fiji Media Council. The council chairman, Daryl Tarte, says it had not been...

Judge, Speedy Trial Tribunal IV of Dhaka yesterday awarded death sentence to three accused including the wife of the deceased in the journalist Nabil Abdul Latif murder case of Keraniganj, Dhaka. The fugitive convicts are wife of the victim Farhana Sultana Kanak, Shahidul Islam Pappu and Nirzon Mostakin. The victim, aged about 26, was a cultural reporter the New Age. Convicts Mostakin and Pappu...

NAIROBI, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A global media watchdog criticised Tanzania's government on Monday, saying it had threatened to deport a local journalist for his role in a documentary linking its fish exports with arms trafficking. Reporters Without Borders said Richard Mgamba, who works for the independent daily The Citizen, was targeted for helping Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper shoot "Darwin's...

New York, August 21, 2006—Protesters including striking school teachers in southern Mexico seized 12 private radio stations today after unidentified assailants shot up a government-owned station already under the demonstrators’ control. At least 50 protesters of the antigovernment group, Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), simultaneously took over each of the stations in the city of...

JOHANNESBURG: A South African draft law that its sponsors say is intended in part to curb pornography has drawn a cool response from the country's media and media watchdogs, who say it could be a first step toward political censorship. The measure, the Film and Publications Amendment Bill, has hit a particular nerve in South Africa, where memories of draconian restrictions and crackdowns on...

In Bangladesh a journalist doesn't know who is going to attack him/her next. Reckoned to be one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to be in, the country unfailingly lives up to its reputation every few weeks. Barely had the brutal attack on an Indian journalist sunk in, that activists of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) let loose their ire on a newspaper that is one of its

Life for investigative journalists in Brazil is increasingly becoming difficult. This month alone one journalist has been abducted (and subsequently released), one threatened and thus forced into hiding, while a newspaper has been barred by a court to write on a trafficiking case in which investigations are on. GRABBED AT WORK: A television frame grab aired on August 13, 2006, shows undated

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, August 17, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today urged Mexican authorities to investigate the suspected involvement of Arturo Villarreal in the 2004 killing of a Tijuana newspaper editor. Villarreal was picked up as part of a drug sweep by U.S. security services on August 14. A Mexican prosecutor last year identified Villarreal, who is known by the nickname "El...

ROME -- A media watchdog group on Friday protested searches at two Italian newspaper offices in connection with the investigation into an alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Police last week searched the Milan and Rome offices of the daily La Repubblica and the offices of the Piccolo newspaper in Trieste, in northern Italy, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said...