(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 31, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Tuesday's attacks by local police against six Chilean reporters covering clashes between security forces and high school students during a massive strike demanding reforms in Chile's education laws. Nearly 600,000 high school students protested in Chile's capital, Santiago, calling for a reduction in public...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has requested that Burundi's intelligence service drop its legal proceedings against Burundi Press Agency (Agence burundaise de presse, ABP) journalist Aloys Kabura. Kabura has been detained in the central prison of Ngozi (northern Burundi) since 31 May 2006. The journalist, who recently wrote an article implicating the police in sugar smuggling, was...
(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 1, 2006 - A year after Lebanese journalist Samir Qassir was murdered in a Beirut car bombing, those responsible remain at large. The Committee to Protect Journalists reiterates its call to Lebanese authorities and the international community to work urgently to bring to justice those behind Qassir's murder, and the murder and maiming of two other journalists last year...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has hailed a Californian appeal court's "historic" decision on 26 May 2006 that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as other kinds of journalists. The ruling was issued in a case between the US electronics manufacturer Apple and websites that posted confidential information about some of its products. "We have often...
(IFJ/IFEX) - May 31, 2006: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns a violent attack in which at least 25 journalists were injured by members of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during a demonstration protesting the harassment of journalists in Kashita on May 29, 2006. "We call on BNP members to cease any further attacks on journalists and demand that those...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is very worried about Abed Tavanchech, a blogger and student at Tehran's Amirkabir polytechnic university, who has been missing since 26 May 2006 and may well have been arrested after posting photos and reports about the demonstrations taking place at his university for the past few weeks. "Tavanchech is a courageous blogger who may well have fallen prey to...
(IPI/IFEX) - Edinburgh, 30 May 2006: At the Board Meeting of the International Press Institute, in Edinburgh, Scotland on 29 May 2006, the IPI Executive Board voted unanimously to keep Ethiopia, Nepal, Russia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe on the IPI Watch List. Speaking generally about the Watch List countries, IPI Director Johann P. Fritz said, "Nepal is the only country on the IPI Watch List where...
May 31 (Bloomberg) -- Perfil SA, Argentina's second-largest media company, sued the country's government, alleging it violated press freedoms by withholding advertising from media it considers critical, company president Jorge Fontevecchia said. The lawsuit, which is the first by a media outlet against President Nestor Kirchner's government, demands the government ends its policy of...
Tehran (AsiaNews) – A good many Iranians are not ignorant of what is going on in the world and the perception of the same of Iran. Many illegally watch international satellite TV and tune in to opposition radios, which have a network of clandestine reporters at work in Iran. However, the national media is submitted to so many restrictions and controls that its credibility is generally very limited...
(MISA/IFEX) - The general manager of Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), Jika Nkolokosa, and one of his reporters, Maxwell Ng'ambi, have been charged with criminal libel for writing negatively about Health Minister Hetherwick Ntaba. Both journalists pleaded not guilty before the Lilongwe Magistrate Court on 29 May 2006. According to the charge sheet, the journalists, "knowing it to be false and...
