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New York, June 7, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arson attack on an investigative reporter and his family in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. Attackers set fire June 3 to the apartment of Sergei Yanovsky, correspondent of the Kyiv-based newspaper Kievskiye Vedomosti. The newspaper reported that unidentified assailants poured gasoline through the kitchen window of...

A prominent Turkish journalist went on trial on Wednesday charged with undermining the authority of the armed forces by writing in support of a young man who refused to do military service. Perihan Magden is one of several journalists and writers who face the courts this week as nationalist prosecutors inside the criminal justice system try to silence opinion and comment that, they argue, threaten...

(HRW/IFEX) - (New York, June 7, 2006) - Authorities in Bangladesh must promptly and impartially investigate and prosecute violent attacks against journalists last week by supporters of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Human Rights Watch said today. Nine days after the attacks, the police have made no arrests and a local newspaper remains closed. The attacks and slow government...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - Burma's military government has ordered domestic journals and magazines to stop publishing the columns of veteran journalist Ludu Sein Win after an opinion piece critical of the junta appeared in the "International Herald Tribune" (IHT) on May 23, 2006. "Our journal can't use any of Saya Ludu Sein Win's articles because the censorship board ordered us not to publish," the New Delhi...

BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian security forces released a local British Broadcasting Corporation reporter on Tuesday who was detained in a crackdown on journalists suspected of links to a controversial U.S.-based online newspaper. Lamin Cham, a correspondent for the BBC's English language African service, was picked up last Wednesday by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on suspicion of links to...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 6, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalist is deeply concerned by attacks and threats against the press in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by suspected members of the two major Palestinian parties, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah movement. On Monday, nearly 50 armed militants stormed a studio of Fatah-affiliated...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has published photographs showing the marks left on the body of a journalist from the blows he received from members of the National Guard while detained earlier this year in Gambia, where two journalists are still in detention. The journalist's identity and the circumstances of his imprisonment are known to Reporters Without Borders but are being withheld to...

Spain's Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling sentencing former Al Jazeera correspondent Tayseer Allouni to jail for collaborating with Al-Qaida, report the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF). Allouni, one of 24 people on trial in Spain for terrorism-related crimes, was sentenced to seven years in prison on 26...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that the recent violence in East Timor has undermined the media's ability to cover the political and social crisis as two daily newspapers have had their publishing interrupted during the crisis. The IFJ has received several reports that journalists, like most workers, have not been going to work amid the ongoing fighting...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 2, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that courts in Brazil have issued gag orders on two newspapers for their critical reporting on politicians in the run-up to a general election in October. On May 8, the Civil Court in Campo Grande, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state, granted an injunction to likely gubernatorial candidate André Puccinelli...