Following the US air strikes in Pakistan's Bajaur Agency on January 13 that killed 18 people, mostly women and children, the local administration has stopped both Pakistani and foreign press persons from entering the area in a bid to "prevent Bajaur from becoming another Waziristan," Asia News International (ANI) has reported. RAZED: A Pakistani house damaged in the American airstrike. Pakistani
Three journalists in China have been given heavy prison sentences after writing about illegal land confiscation in a magazine that had no official licence in the southeastern province of Zhejiang. LAND AND DISPUTE: Farming land on the outskirts of Beijing. Two journalists in eastern China have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail for publishing an unauthorized magazine that exposed local land
The Cambodian government may have timed the release of four imprisoned government critics — a union leader, a radio journalist and two social activists — to coincide with a visit by a diplomat of the United States which had condemned the arrests, but it is far from dropping defamation charges against them. MARCH TO FREEDOM: Human rights leaders Kem Sokha (4th R), Pa Nguon Teang (3rd R)
A Vietnamese court has sent a former magazine deputy editor to prison for posing as a government official and cheating some businesspeople of nearly US$426,000. The Hanoi People’s Court Wednesday sentenced Nguyen Trong Giac, formerly of Thi Truong Gia Ca (market & price) magazine, to 11 years and his accomplices, Dao Huu Nghi and Nguyen Duc Loi, to 14 and 12 years. Giac, 55 pretended to be deputy...
MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - The prosecution in the trial of two ethnic Chechens and a Moscow notary accused of killing Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov will start to present evidence Wednesday when the trial resumes behind closed doors at the Moscow City Court after a six-day adjournment. Prosecutors claim Chechens Kazbek Dukuzov, Musa Vakhayev and notary Fail Sadretdinov gunned down...
18 January 2006 -- The trial of three ethnic Chechens accused of involvement in the killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov has been delayed. Lawyer Ruslan Zakalyuzny said the trial was put off until an unspecified date because the presiding judge is ill. However, court spokeswoman Anna Usacheva said the trial was delayed because one of the defense lawyers was systematically violating court...
Police and military harassment, intimidation and physical attacks directed against Sri Lankan media personnel, mainly targeting Tamil journalists, have been mounting since Mahinda Rajapakse assumed the presidency last November. These incidents have emerged amid a sharp rise in violence involving the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the growing danger of a return to open...
Jan. 18th - 2006 - Nijmegen/The Netherlands - Louis Sévèke was 41 years old, when the journalist/researcher was liquidated with two shots by a professional assassin last November 15th in Nijmegen in the eastern part of Holland, close to the German border. And when replying: do everybody a favor and don't give us that same old stupid BS again about a 'conspiracy theory': There mostly are no real...
Leading human rights organizations on Tuesday condemned the trial of a journalist and Chechen rights activist as a government campaign to deprive citizens of one of the last remaining alternative sources of information on the brutal war in Chechnya. Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, the head of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society in Nizhny Novgorod, is being tried on charges of inciting ethnic hatred in...
