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Chauncey Bailey, outspoken editor of the Oakland Post and former reporter for the Oakland Tribune, was shot dead by a masked gunman on a downtown Oakland street Thursday. Oakland (California) police officers investigate the scene where 'Oakland Post' editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death in Oakland, August 2, 2007. Bailey, the outspoken new editor of the 'Oakland Post', who formerly worked for

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the abduction and beating of journalist Sinan Tekpetek by police in the Istanbul district of Beyoglu on 26 July. Tekpetek, who edits the newspaper Yüzde 52 Ofke (52 Per Cent of Anger) gave an account of the attack at a news conference at the headquarters of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in Istanbul on 28 July. “The violence described by Tekpetek is...

(BIANET/IFEX) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has heard the appeals of former Kayseri mayor Sükrü Karatepe, who had been convicted of "inciting hatred and hostility" and of Ziya Ulusoy, a journalist who had been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment. Both appeals were based on Article 6/1 of the European Convention on Human Rights and claimed that there had not been a fair trial. The...

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 31 July 2007, three men accompanying Sherry Ayittey, a functionary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ghana's main opposition party, forced a photographer of the "Daily Guide", a pro-government newspaper, to remove images of Ayittey from his camera. Policemen from the Striking Force Unit of the Ghana Police Service prevented the three men from further harassing journalist...

On the first anniversary of French journalist Grégoire de Bourgues’ murder in Kazakhstan, Reporters Without Borders today said it was obviously pleased that two people have been convicted of killing him but it condemned the Kazakh judicial system’s failure to shed full light on the case. “Many questions are still unresolved one year after this young French journalist’s death and the authorities...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a package of amendments that expand the definition of extremism to include public discussion of such activity, and give law enforcement officials broad authority to suspend media outlets that do not comply with the new restrictions, according to local press reports. The package, promoted by deputies with the ruling United Russia party, was

New York, August 1, 2007— The managing editor of a Tunisian online magazine is due to appear in court in Tunis on August 2 on charges of defamation that could lead to his imprisonment for up to three-and-a-half years, according to one of his lawyers. The charges against Tunisian rights activist Omar Mestiri stem from an article in French posted on the Web site Kalima on September 5, 2006, in which...

New York, August 1, 2007— The director of a private newspaper in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, was handed a suspended prison term and a fine today, but could not appear in court after he was hospitalized as the result of poor detention conditions, local journalists told CPJ. “We condemn this verdict and call on Gabonese President Omar Bongo to deliver on his 2004 pledge to eliminate prison...

A Mexican journalist who applied for U.S. asylum after being severely beaten in Hermosillo, Sonora, has decided to drop his petition. Claudio Tiznado recently told the Committee to Protect Journalists, which documented his case, that his decision didn't come easy. But given the diplomatic relations between the two countries and his inability to pay an attorney, Tiznado said he believed securing...

(CJES/IFEX) - Larisa Arap, a member of the opposition movement United Civil Front, has been forcibly hospitalized in a Murmansk psychiatric clinic. Yelena Vasilyeva, the head of the movement's Murmansk division, told CJES Arap's hospitalization occurred following the publication of her article on the city's psychiatric clinics in a special edition of the movement's newspaper. In her article, Arap...