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(CEPET/IFEX) - Mexico, 10 September 2007 - The Office of the Attorney General of Sinaloa ordered the temporary suspension from duty of policemen Roberto Carlos Barceló Villagrán Torres and Jorge Zataráin. The two officers are under investigation in the assault upon photojournalist Luis Fernando Nájera of the daily "El Debate" and the weekly "Ríodoce". The officers stand accused of abuse of...

Outside of a newsroom, a half-hour delay in obtaining video may seem like a minor inconvenience at best. But to television news executives, the lag in catching up to the competition can be a challenge. That was the predicament CNN faced just after 3:15 p.m. on Friday, as a grainy 75-second tape of Osama bin Laden’s latest message began running in a seemingly endless loop on the cable news network...

Reporters Without Borders learnt today the two-year prison sentence which a Minsk judge secretly passed on opposition activist Andrei Klimau on 1 August for an article on the Internet. The sentence was revealed by a prosecutor’s office spokesman on 7 September and was officially confirmed today. Arrested on 3 April, Klimau was transferred to a Minsk prison on 11 June. In a trial secretly held on 1...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Vogue magazine, the style bible for fashionistas worldwide, is launching an edition in India this month which is set to give the country's wealthy jet-setters a local twist on fashion and the good life. The magazine marks publisher Conde Nast's first foray in the Asian subcontinent and is another sign of the growing interest in Asia's third-biggest economy, which has a large...

The many twists and turns in the Anna Politkovskaya case since last week’s announcement of the arrest of ten suspects in the October 2006 murder of the Russian journalist are feeding doubts over the capacity and determination of the Russian authorities to solve it, nearly a year after the brutal killing of the journalist. “Attempts to discredit the case, orchestrated since Prosecutor-General

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo to release Noëlla Mwambikwa, a journalist with Congolese National Radio and Television station (RTNC), who has been detained since her arrest by army intelligence on Tuesday for alleged links with a rebel leader. “We condemn the illegal detention of Noëlla and the continuing...

Reporters Without Borders today strongly condemned an attempt to kill journalist Lirio Abbate with a car bomb and voiced its firm support for his work, which includes reporting on organised crime for the Ansa news agency and the national daily La Stampa. Two people were disturbed early on 2 September while attaching a bomb underneath his car in Palermo, the Sicilian capital. The city’s mayor...

Violence in Somalia has been escalating, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says and this has put enormous pressure on journalists reporting on the conflict for both Somali news organisations and international media. “Journalists themselves have become targets,” said IFJ General Secretary Aidan White in a letter to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations. “This year...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about a broadside on the media which the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, delivered during a speech to the Assembly of Experts on 5 September. “What is left of press freedom now in Iran?” the organisation asked. “Ayatollah Khamenei’s comments have reinforced the climate of censorship that oppresses all journalists who...

New York, September 7, 2007—An Argentine Supreme Court ruling condemning the province of Neuquén for the withdrawal of state advertising from a critical daily will help protect the media from government manipulation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On Wednesday, Argentina’s highest tribunal ruled the government cannot suppress or substantially reduce official advertising to the...