MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors in southern Russia have opened a criminal case against a newspaper editor accused of inciting ethnic hatred by publishing nationalist articles, officials said Wednesday. "Investigators said Igor Mogilev had since December 2005 distributed the newspaper Ya Russky [I Am Russian], which he edited himself, and print editions Tserbery Vlasti [Hounds of Power...
(New York, March 14, 2006) The Ugandan government’s expulsion of a foreign journalist is the latest example of a crackdown on independent media that predates recent elections, Human Rights Watch said. At least three local journalists also face serious criminal charges on account of their work. President Yoweri Museveni, in power in Uganda since 1986, won re-election last month, giving him...
Syria's internet has emerged as the vehicle for the bold voice of dissent in Damascus, where the state regularly exercises censorship and stifles domestic criticism. The electronic media has pushed the envelope of what is acceptable but at a heavy price. Savvy cyber rebels who have broadened the political debate could be preyed upon at any time and thrown in jail for proselytising to Syria's...
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - If there was one characteristic that defined Heriberto Deandar Amador, founder of El Manana newspaper, it was fearlessness. A teenage telegraph operator during the Mexican revolution, Deandar dodged bullets as he wired telegrams. He later founded the daily newspaper, taking on government leaders and powerful Mexican families. When the government retaliated by raising the...
Uganda has refused to let a Canadian journalist working for the Economist re-enter the east African country because of concerns about his reporting, Reuters has reported. For months, government media authorities did not renew the press accreditation of 34-year-old Blake Lambert, who had lived in Uganda for three years. PREZ'S UP: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (R), with his wife Janet (L)
An editor has been sentenced to one year in prison on a charge of publishing "false news" in a 2002 report attributed to the BBC, which claimed that Ethiopia was training rebels in neighbouring Eritrea. Abraham Gebrekidan, who edited the now-defunct Amharic-language weekly Politika, was immediately jailed on March 8, several local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). THE
More than three months have elapsed since the assassination of Lebanese editor Gebran Tueni by the government is yet to appoint a judge to investigate the murder even as an award has been instituted to honour a newspaper publisher or editor in the Arab world who demonstrates free press values. TUENI'S DAUGHTER: Nayla Tueni, daughter of slain anti-Syrian journalist and legislator Gibran Tueni, in
Yet another journalist has been handed down a prison sentence for defamation. On March 7, a court in Giza near Cairo convicted Amira Malash, a reporter for the independent weekly Al-Fagr, of defaming Judge Attia Mohammad Awad in an article she wrote in July 2005 alleging that he had taken bribes. WATCH OUT: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Egypt President Hosni Mubarak brief the media
Mar 11, 2006 (DVB) - Renowned Burmese journalist Win Tin who has been detained at the notorious Rangoon Insein Jail for 17 years, is not allowed to celebrate his birthday which falls on 12 March. Moreover, Win Tin’s health condition is very poor as he has been suffering from high blood pressures, acute heart condition and diabetes, and he has been given medical check-ups once a month, according to...
