The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) have protested to Russian President Vladimir Putin against the incarceration of a journalist in a psychiatric hospital for writing an article critical of psychiatric services — a punishment that echoes human rights abuses from the Soviet era. A psychiatric clinic in the north-western city of Murmansk has confirmed it has
JUBA, Sudan, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The editor and owner of Sudan's The Citizen daily was arrested and jailed for a day because of his coverage of a corruption investigation involving high-level south Sudanese officials, he said. Southerner Nhial Bol was released on Tuesday evening from his jail in south Sudan's capital, Juba, and warned other journalists could face a worse fate because the semi...
New York, August 7, 2007—Intelligence agents in central DRC have jailed a reporter for failing to air an interview with a local politician, according to news reports and local journalists. Manda Mutombo of Radiotélévision Nationale Congolaise was arrested Friday by Congo’s National Intelligence Agency in the diamond-rich city of Kananga, 674 miles (1,085 km) southeast of the capital, Kinshasa...
(BIANET/IFEX) - Aris Nalci, news director of the "Agos" weekly newspaper, said although there has been a drop in e-mail threats received by the newspaper, the threats are still continuing. In a recent case, a student identified only as R.D., who is in his last year of high school, has been arrested for sending a threatening message to the newspaper one day after its editor-in-chief Hrant Dink was...
Police briefly detained journalists at a rare protest Monday in Beijing, after they covered a news conference featuring an advocacy group demanding greater press freedom in China. A plainclothes officer at right tries to prevent a photographer from taking a photo of a Chinese police officer questioning two journalists near the headquarters of the Beijing Olympics planning committee seen in the...
August 6, 2007—Mexican journalist Alberto Fernández Portilla was shot and wounded early Sunday morning as he arrived at his home in Salina Cruz, a Pacific port city in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to investigate the attack. Fernández told CPJ that the shooting occurred around 1:50 a.m. as he returned alone from a dinner at a...
A bakery handyman told police he killed Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey because he was angered by his news stories, it was reported Saturday. Devaughndre Broussard, 19, confessed to the killing after he was one of seven people arrested Friday during a raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery and several homes, The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune reported Saturday. Broussard, who is on probation for a robbery...
New York, August 3, 2007—Journalists in Africa’s Comoros islands say they were prevented from traveling to the separatist island of Anjouan to cover Independence Day celebrations Friday. Local reporters say travel agencies refused to sell them airline tickets. Editor Ibrahim Ali Saïd Félix and cameraman Ismael Kassim of Djabal Télévision, a private station based on the main volcanic island of...
Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about President Alexandre Lukashenko’s comments during a visit to the state-owned daily Sovietskaya Bielorussiya yesterday, when he said the government planned to increase its control of the Internet and “put an end to the anarchy” online. “We cannot allow this great technical success by humankind to become a news sewer,” Lukashenko said...
Reporters Without Borders today hailed a London appeal court’s decision on 30 July to quash a gagging order issued by judge Richard Aikens during a trial last May that banned the press from referring in their reports of the trial to the content of a leaked memo about a meeting between Tony Blair and George W. Bush in 2004. “We are pleased that the appeal brought by the BBC, The Guardian and 15...
