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(MFWA/IFEX) - The proceedings against Malick Jones, a principal producer with the state-owned Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS), and Mam Sait Ceesay, a former editor of the pro-government "Daily Observer" newspaper, were suspended on 26 September 2007. The decision followed defence counsel Antouman Gaye's submission that the case was filed without a fiat of the Attorney General as...

New York, September 27, 2007—Haitian President René Préval has pledged support for an independent committee evaluating stalled investigations into a series of unsolved journalist murders this decade and said that all political obstacles to justice have now been removed. Meeting with a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday, Préval expressed his “full support” for the...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Mexico, 25 September 2007 - Arcadio Acevedo, a columnist with the newspaper "Expreso de Chiapas", has denounced the media coordination office of the government of Chiapas (Coordinación de Comunicación Social, Cocoso) for threatening to withdraw official advertising from the newspaper if he continues writing on "forbidden topics". He further claims that such pressures are exerted...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned local authorities in the region of the southern city of Novi Pazar for drawing up a blacklist of undesirable journalists ahead of press conferences. Enes Halilovic, local correspondent for the news agency FONET and the newspaper Blic, was banned from a press conference given by the EU and Swiss ambassadors on 25 September. The authorities said he had been...

Reporters Without Borders has criticised the continuing delays in achieivng justice over the murder six years ago of Martin O’Hagan, a reporter for the Sunday World and a member of the National Union of Journalists. “The difficulties encountered in establishing the truth are all the more shocking because they appear partly linked to a lack of will on the part of the police,” the worldwide press...

THIS week bankers have a perfect excuse to pore over pictures of scantily clad models, fast cars and film stars: Emap, a British media firm that straddles consumer magazines, radio and trade exhibitions, is up for sale, and bids are due by early October. Emap has 50 magazine titles, which produced revenues of £408m ($773m) in the year to March 2007, and its sale will attract international...

Today the European Federation of Journalists, the European group of the International Federation of Journalists, brought its full backing to over 400 journalists in Slovenia who signed a petition to denounce intolerable pressure in the newsrooms. “We are appalled that after months of protests and appeals by national and international media organisations the Slovenian authorities keep putting...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses its concern over the ongoing demise of media freedom in Pakistan. The IFJ agrees with recent comments from its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), that a government advertisement, “Freedom of Expression…Like never before,” was extremely misleading. According to the PFUJ, professionals working for the Pakistani...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed its fear that Chief Ebrima Manneh, who has been missing for more than a year and was reportedly being held incommunicado, has been killed in jail in The Gambia. "This information is extremely devastating for the media community in The Gambia and journalists around the world," said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the IFJ...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (September 26, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today denounced an attack on the plant of the Venezuelan daily newspaper Panorama and called on the authorities to carry out a full investigation to bring those responsible for the incident to justice. A group of unidentified assailants attacked the paper's building in Maracaibo, in the western state of...