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(IPYS/IFEX) - In a unanimous ruling made known on 9 August 2007, the Second Bench of the Supreme Court confirmed the conviction of three journalists of the Chilevisión (CHV) television station for the use of hidden cameras. Press editor Patricio Caldichoury Ríos, journalist Fernando Reyes Amín and producer Raúl Poblete Barrios each received a suspended three-month prison sentence. The court...

British-Russian relations have taken a nosedive. BBC's Russian-language service will no longer be heard on Russian FM radio, after the country's media regulator ordered that it be removed. On August 17, the management of Bolshoye Radio announced that it would no longer broadcast the BBC’s World Service programmes in the Russian language. The radio station is the BBC’s last FM partner in Russia

Reporters Without Borders called today for the immediately release of Yasin Yetisgen, the owner and editor of the Kurdish newspaper Coban Atesi, who was detained by a police court on 14 August in Gaziantep (in southeastern Anatolia) for publishing an article that said Gaziantep was located in “northern Kurdistan.” “As the crime of ‘separatist propaganda’ in article 8 of the anti-terrorism law was...

An Israeli journalist was forcibly ejected from press conference in Jordan at the weekend for daring to identify herself and ask a question. The reporter, from Israel's Yediot Ahronot daily newspaper, was attending a music festival in the northern Jordan town of Jerash. During the press conference following the festival, the Israeli reporter tried to ask one of the popular entertainers a question...

Every six months, a huge set of numbers descends like confetti on the good people of medialand showing the audited circulation figures for every UK magazine. Time was, not so very long ago, when the publication of those figures was a pretty cheerful event. Sure, there were winners and losers, but the prevailing mood tended to be of a buoyant industry sailing serenely through the choppy waters that...

Kazakhstan is supposed to stage model legislative elections tomorrow as it aspires to hold the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s rotating presidency in 2009 with the support of most European countries. But no election held in this central Asian republic since independence in 1991 has been considered free and fair, and this campaign has been marked by interference in both state...

The BBC World Service has lost its last FM radio outlet in Russia today, adding further substance to claims of a clampdown on foreign media by the country's authorities. Russian station Bolshoye Radio today notified the BBC World Service that it plans to stop transmission of BBC programming in Russian as of this afternoon. Bolshoye Radio was due to air BBC content at 5pm but was ordered by its...

Hundreds of journalists marched silently Wednesday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi with their mouths gagged to protest a bill that would restrict press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The law, which would force editors to name their sources if a story led to a court cases, was sent to President Mwai Kibaki last week for review. Journalists with their mouths taped

A peaceful march led by photojournalists in DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, to demand justice for last week’s assassination of freelance photojournalist Patrick Kikuku Wilungula was Thursday interrupted and dispersed by police, according to press freedom group Journaliste en Danger and local journalists. Police turned back at least 200 photographers who were silently walking through Kinshasa’s central...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (August 16, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today welcomed the recent conviction of one of the masterminds of the April 20, 2004 murder of Paraguayan journalist Samuel Román. On August 10 a jury, after deliberating for more than 12 hours, found Eurico Mariano, former mayor of the city of Coronel Sapucaia, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul...