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Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that imprisoned journalists Adnan Hassanpour and Abdolvahed Hiva Botimar have ended the hunger strike they began on 14 July. When he received a visit from relatives on 4 September, Botimar announced that he and Hassanpour had resumed eating after more than 50 days of consuming nothing but sweetened water. “We now call on the judicial authorities to...

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by a wave of threats and attacks on journalists by supporters of the two candidates in Sierra Leone’s presidential election run-off tomorrow. Many cases of violence involving members of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) have been reported in the past two months. “The run-up to the second round of the...

A Comombian radio station director was found stabbed to death at his home Wednesday in Cartago, a city in the western Valle del Cauca province. Javier Dario Arroyave was killed in the town of Cartago, the base of Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartel, but authorities said there was no immediate evidence of a connection between the attack and his work. Arroyave, news director for the Cartago

New York, September 6, 2007—Azerbaijani authorities must stop the persecution of Eynulla Fatullayev, an imprisoned editor who has been hit with a series of politically inspired criminal charges since he began investigating alleged government wrongdoing, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On Tuesday, the National Security Ministry (MNB) charged Fatullayev with tax evasion, which...

Manama: The legal stand-off in Bahrain between liberal media and Islamists has intensified after the Arab Federation of Journalists said it was backing Al Ayam Editor-in-Chief Eisa Al Shayji, who is under fire from religious preacher Wajdi Ghunaim. "We express our full solidarity with Eisa Al Shayji and we put all our technical, legislative and logistic potential at his service so that rights...

Media rights groups have called for the end of the death threats against Ali Moallim Isak, a leader of the Somali journalists union after he received anonymous threatening telephone calls and two armed men went to search for him at the union office in the capital Mogadishu. A Somali journalist, stringing for Reuters, bleeds from the head after he survived a roadside bomb ambush that killed another

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged President Joao Bernardo Vieira of Guinea Bissau to put an end to the harassment of journalists reporting on drug trafficking in the country. “We are dismayed that one reporter who interpreted for ITN News, a British television investigating drug trafficking has been charged with libel after the head of the navy filed a complaint against...

Iranian authorities have allowed an Iranian-American journalist for the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to leave Iran, after keeping her in the country for months, the broadcaster said Tuesday. Prague-based Parnaz Azima, who works for Radio Farda, RFE/RL's Persian service operated jointly with the Voice of America radio broadcaster, arrived in Tehran on January 25 to visit her

Reporters Without Borders today protested against a one-year suspended prison sentence and a one year professional ban imposed yesterday on radio and news agency proprietor Sergio Poma for “insulting” Juan Carlos Romero, governor of Salta, in north-western Argentina, whom he had accused of malpractice. Carlos Romero laid a complaint against Poma, of radio FM Noticias, after he accused him of fraud...

Press freedom organisaitons have voiced concern over the repeated harassment of journalist Abdul Karim Al-Khaiwani by the Yemen government. The latest incident happened last week when Khaiwani was attacked by unknown assailants suspected of being security officers. Journalist Abdul-Kareem al-Khaiwani speaks to reporters at the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate in Sana'a August 29, 2007. Al-Khaiwani...