Nosir Zokirov, a correspondent for the Uzbek service of the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was released from prison on Sunday after serving a six-month sentence for insulting a security officer, the broadcaster reported. BLOODBATHED: The Uzbekistan government of President Islam Karimov has pursued independent journalists since foreign media carried news of the May
The police in Belarus Thursday turned the heat on journalists trying to cover an attack by plainclothes policemen on an opposition candidate in the ensuing presidential polls. BAD PRESIDENT: Belarus security agents, one of them in a riot police uniform, foreground left, jostling with Alexander Kozulin in Minsk, March 2. Security agents beat and detained Kozulin, an opposition candidate in this
A reporter of Colombian newspaper Vanguardia Liberal has been forced to flee home after receiving death threats for reporting on abuses by right-wing militants. Jenny Manrique fled Bucaramanga in the western province of Santander in January. ALWAYS ON GUARD: Police officers stand guard in Rivera, 150 miles southwest of Bogota, Colombia, February 28. Eight town council officials were killed in a
Masked policemen shut down Kenya's second largest media group early Thursday in Nairobi, two days after three Kenyan journalists were detained without charge for a story about the country's president, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. BURNT: A Kenyan reads a burnt copy of the Standard newspaper at the printing press in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, March 2. Masked gunmen raided Kenya's second
Pressure is mounting on Egypt President Hosni Mubarak to implement the promise he made two years ago to initiate legislations to decriminalise press offences. ON A PROMISORY NOTE: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, shakes hand with Israeli Labour Party leader Amir Peretz during their meeting in Cairo February 22. The same day, freedom of expression organisations at the general meeting of the
One year after Elmar Huseynov, the founder and editor of the opposition weekly Monitor, was killed at the entrance of his apartment building in Azerbaijan capital Baku, there has been no headway in the investigation. SILENCED: Elmar Huseynov, founder and editor of independent weekly Monitor, attending the 1st OSCE South Caucasus Media Conference, October 2004. Huseynov, 38, was gunned down on
The chief executive of Reuters today said that traditional media had to rise to the challenge of the internet or face being overcome by change. Speaking at the Online Publishers Association conference in London this morning, Tom Glocer said that media organisations needed to understand their true value in order to make the most of the online world. "I believe the world will always need editing,"...
A prominent correspondent for Russia's NTV television channel, Ilya Zimin, was killed Sunday in Moscow, the channel's press secretary said, according to RIA Novosti news agency. "We confirm that he tragically died," Maria Bezborodova said. She said no details of Zimin's death were immediately available. KILLED FOR EXPOSES: NTV News Editor Tatyana Mitkova said she did not rule out the possibility
September 17, 2005: Politiken, a Danish newspaper, runs an article under the headline "Deep fear of criticism of Islam" detailing the difficulty encountered by the writer K�re Bluitgen, who had difficulties finding an illustrator for his children's book on the life of Mohammed. September 30: Jyllands-Posten, one of Denmark's bestselling daily newspapers, publishes 12 cartoons of the prophet to
A Turkish appeals court on Friday last overturned a lower court's decision to convict Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink for insulting the country's national identity in a series of articles, and ordered a new trial, the Associated Press (AP) had reported. VINDICATED ON APPEAL: Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen and editor of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, was convicted and given a
