RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a months-long campaign of legal and personal harassment of weekly newspaper editor Margarita Zakora and her family and called on the authorities to stop it immediately. "The cynical nature of these attacks is matched by her courage," the worldwide press freedom organisation said. "We demand that the legal action against her be dropped and that...
New York, August 14, 2006—A Brazilian television reporter abducted by a São Paulo criminal gang was released unharmed today after his station broadcast a message by the kidnappers denouncing prison conditions. Reporter Guilherme de Azevedo Portanova and technician Alexandre Coelho Calado of the São Paulo-based TV Globo network were seized on Saturday by members of the gang First Capital Command...
The September issues of fashion magazines hit newsstands this week, thick with ads and advice on what to wear — and buy. Fashion advertising is vigorous in magazines this year. Leading the pack is Vogue with Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette on the cover. Vogue, the perennial heavyweight champion, boasts a hefty 625 advertisement pages, which is not the magazine's best, but good enough to keep it...
BAKU. Aug 14 (Interfax) - Shakhin Agabeili, the editor of Azerbaijan's Milli Yol [National Road] newspaper who was sentenced to a one-year prison term, has begun a hunger strike, said Fikret Faramazogly, the head of a journalists' rights committee. "Shakhin Agabeili began his hunger action to protest his illegal sentence and the strike will continue until the court's ruling is reversed,"...
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazil's most notorious organized crime group kidnapped a television reporter and forced his station to broadcast a video Sunday in which the gang called for improvements in Brazil's prison system. The prison-based First Capital Command, or PCC, whose leaders have been accused of ordering violence in Sao Paulo state, said it would release the reporter only after the video was...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Ukraine violated the press freedom rights of a newspaper editor convicted in 2001 on criminal defamation charges stemming from a series of stories about two government officials, Committee to Protect Journalists said on its website Friday. The court found that Oleg Lyashko, former editor of the independent Kiev weekly Polityka, reported on...
THE teenage lifestyle magazine market is in “serious decline”, with ABC results next week expected to reveal a significant fall in circulation numbers, according to industry sources. The findings will be released just days after Emap, the media group, closed Sneak, the teenage celebrity gossip magazine, conceding that teenagers were now getting their showbiz news on the internet. Smash Hits...
New York, August 11, 2006—Colombian radio host Milton Fabián Sánchez was gunned down on Wednesday night outside his home in Yumbo, in the southwestern Valle del Cauca province. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether there is a connection between the murder and Sánchez’ work. A masked assailant shot Sánchez three times in the face at 9:45 p.m., the journalist’s colleague...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the death of Ayfer Serçe, a young Kurdish journalist and militant, during an army operation against Kurdish rebels on 24 July 2006 in Keleres, in the northeastern province of Azarbayjan, and called on the Iranian authorities to provide an explanation. A Turkish national, Serçe worked for the Firat Haber Ajansi (Euphrates News Agency - FHA) using...
(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today demanded the release of 20 journalists who have been jailed during the last nine months in Ethiopia for political reasons and called on other world leaders to pressure the Ethiopian government for their release as well. Seventeen journalists were arrested during the violent suppression of anti-government riots that followed the...
