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(Globe International/IFEX) - On 27 July 2006, Mr. M. Yadmaa, governor of Omnogovi province, ordered department heads not to give information to AltanGobi television while the TV cameraman, Mr M. Shinekhuu, was reporting on a meeting of the heads of the governor's departmental offices. On 26 July, AltanGobi television aired a programme covering the excessive increase in the price of meat and...

New York, August 9, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a murderous attack against the Kaieteur News printing plant that came amid a series of violent episodes in Georgetown, Guyana's capital, on Tuesday night. Masked assailants with automatic weapons killed four printing staff employees execution-style, the newspaper's owner told CPJ today. A fifth printing plant employee was...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has said it took note of a claim by the prosecutor general that former economic development minister Farkhad Aliev, who is being held on a charge of financing a coup attempt, was involved in the March 2005 murder of Elmar Huseynov, the editor of the "Monitor" opposition weekly. Prosecutor general Zakir Garalov told journalists on 8 August 2006 that evidence...

OAXACA, Mexico -- Gunmen attacked a newspaper critical of the Oaxaca state government Wednesday, injuring at least two people in the latest incident in a wave of violence that has driven many tourists from this quaint Mexican city. Police said one worker suffered a minor gunshot wound in the raid on the Noticias newspaper while another had been beaten. No arrests were made and a motive had not...

New York, August 9, 2006—Independent journalist Albert Santiago Du Bouchet Hernández was released on Saturday after a year in prison on a spurious charge of “disrespecting” a local police chief. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Cuban authorities to free the other 24 journalists imprisoned throughout the island. Du Bouchet was released on Saturday night after completing his...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Gunmen with automatic weapons stormed Guyana's largest newspaper, killing five people and wounding four in an attack that police said may be linked to the slaying of the South American country's agriculture minister in April. About 10 gunmen attacked just before midnight Tuesday, ordering employees in the printing department of the Kaieteur News to lie on the floor before...

Amnesty International is concerned at the sharp deterioration in freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, and in particular the killing, beating and intimidation of journalists. A series of violent attacks on journalists and the lack of thorough, effective and independent investigations into these incidents have had a chilling effect on the freedom of expression in the country. The fact that no one...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has said it was "very shocked" by the murder of French journalist Grégoire de Bourgues at his home in Almaty on 2 August 2006 and called for an immediate investigation. De Bourgues, 24, had been in Kazakhstan since 22 April as an editorial adviser for an Athens-based firm called SML Strategic Media, which had sent him there for three months to do an...

WASHINGTON – Since its arrival on the scene, the citizen journalist revolution that is so often heralded as the dawning of a new age has faced one serious and nagging problem. Blogging, in and of itself, is not hard. It is a fairly simple equation of software plus a little time plus, probably, a bit of attitude - with maybe a smattering of reporting thrown in for good measure. But reporting and...

A charge that ex-Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev ordered the killing of journalist Elmar Huseynov has unleashed fresh controversy about the government’s 17-month-long murder investigation. Friends and relatives of the slain editor suspect that the accusation is designed to strengthen the government’s case against Aliyev, who was imprisoned last year for allegedly plotting a coup. The...