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NEW YORK, September 4, 2007 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the recent violent attack against journalist Joel Abilay, a radio reporter for Radio GMA (RGMA) in Cadiz City of the province of Negros Occidental. According to the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility and local media reports, Abilay was stabbed twice in the back and seriously wounded by an unknown...

A probe into alleged violations of judicial secrets in the so-called Clearstream affair, which included an attempt to search the offices of Paris-based satirical magazine Canard Enchaîné in May was concluded by two judges last week without anyone being charged. In this file photo former French President Jacques Chirac (left) shakes hands with former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin at the...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about physical attacks on journalists with the El Mundo regional daily and the Red Uno TV station on 28 August in the eastern city of Santa Cruz during a demonstration by market traders protesting against a general strike by regional opponents of President Evo Morales’ central government. Journalists from the Spanish news agency EFE and Canal 7 TVB...

PODGORICA (Reuters) - Three attackers beat up the managing editor of Montenegro's top-selling daily Vijesti early on Saturday in what he said was an assault carried out by opponents of his paper's investigative reporting. Zeljko Ivanovic said he was leaving a restaurant where the paper was celebrating its 10th anniversary when three men attacked him with metal or wooden sticks, causing injuries...

A Port-au-Prince court has sentenced to life two men, Alby Joseph and Chéry Beaubrun, for the abduction and murder of Jacques Roche, the head of the Le Matin newspaper’s arts and culture pages. Roche was kidnapped on 10 July 2005 and was found dead four days later. Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Haitian journalist Jacques Roche, at the St Pierre Roman Catholic church in Petionville

Dozens of Sri Lankan journalists took to the streets to condemn censorship and support a columnist who exposed alleged corruption in the purchase of second-hand supersonic jets. Reporters, cameramen and editors carried placards and chanted slogans outside the main railway station in Colombo Thursday, expressing solidarity with Iqbal Athas of the Sunday Times, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP)

The International Press Institute (IPI), and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), are becoming increasingly concerned about possible political pressure on the Slovenian media. One of the allegations is that the Slovenian government is indirectly influencing the media through its exploitation of business relationships with companies that have financial holdings in a...

On the eve of Uzbekistan’s national holiday tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders condemns the severity of governmental repression of independent news media and human rights activists, especially when they try to point out the lack of democracy and freedoms, combat discrimination or expose corruption or torture. “In office since independence in 1991 and reelected for five years in 2000, President...

Reporters Without Borders today drew the international community’s attention to the rapidly deteriorating condition of imprisoned journalist Faramaz Allahverdiyev. According to his wife, Tahira Allahverdiyeva, he is “close to death.” He has already undergone an operation and doctors say another one would not improve his condition. A reporter with the independent daily Nota Bene, he has been in...

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that Gérard M. Manzi, the editor of the privately-owned weekly Umuseso, was released yesterday after his lawyer submitted signed statements by witnesses supporting his alibi in a rape charge on which the police had held him for eight days. Manzi has been told he must remain at the disposal of the police. Earlier report: Reporters Without Borders calls...