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(CMFR/IFEX) - A radio station manager of a local broadcasting company was shot by a government official on 25 July 2007 in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, an island province approximately 480 km from Manila. Ferdinand "Bambi" Yngson, manager of GMA Network's Super Radyo dySB in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, and a member of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, was on his bicycle...

Reporters Without Borders has renewed an appeal for the release of journalist, Hada [one name], a Mongolian political prisoner since 1995, whose family says he has recently been maltreated, and also condemned the denial of free expression online to the Mongolian minority. "The slogan for the Beijing Olympics, ’One World, One Dream’, leaves a bitter taste for China’s minorities," the worldwide...

Port Harcourt, Nigeria (AHN) - Gunmen stormed into a newspaper office and shot a British professor and a security guard in the city of Port Harcourt in oil-rich Niger Delta, Wednesday. The professor received bullet on the hand while the guard was shot in leg. The gunmen then robbed the newspaper of several laptops and trashed the office. Professor Michael Watts, who was attending an awards...

New York, July 25, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release from prison on Tuesday of a Tunisian human rights lawyer who had been jailed nearly 28 months because of online articles he wrote criticizing the Tunisian government. Mohammed Abbou and more than 20 other political prisoners were freed by order of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The order, which grants a form of...

BAKU, July 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Police in Azerbaijan have arrested an opposition newspaper editor and accused him of soliciting a bribe, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reported. Prosecutors say Musfiq Huseynov, economics editor of the opposition paper "Bizim yol" (Our Way), was arrested after taking $3,500 from a government official in return for not publishing compromising material. "Bizim Yol"...

(MISA/IFEX) - The trial of Bright Chibvuri, editor of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' "The Worker" magazine, charged with practicing journalism without accreditation under the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), has been postponed to 29 August 2007. Chibvuri was arrested in Plumtree on 3 March 2007, spent two nights in police custody and was released on 5...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the six-month suspended prison sentence and fine of 5000 zlotys (1,300 euros) which a court in the eastern city of Lublin imposed on Jacek Brzuszkiewicz of Gazeta Wyborcza on 12 July after finding him guilty under article 212 (2) of the criminal code of libelling Maciej Kierek, a judge attached to the Lublin administrative court. “The sentence is out of...

Georgia, Tbilisi / Trend corr.N.Kirtskhalia, К.Zarbaliyeva / Georgia has refused Azerbaijan the delivery of two men suspected of murdering the Azerbaijani journalist, Elmar Huseynov. Elmar Huseynov, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition Monitor journal, was murdered at his doorway on 2 March. According to one version of the investigation, the journalist’s killers have found refuge in Georgia and are...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the release of journalist Mohammad Asif Nang, but renewed its call for the government to provide a legally justified explanation for why Nang was detained. Nang, the chief editor of Peace Jirga magazine, was held in detention by security officials for 13 days after reportedly publishing an article that angered the Afghan...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the Korean government's plans to restrict journalists' access to information by closing all but three of their press rooms in government offices. IFJ affiliate the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) has refused to accept the proposal amid mounting criticism of the plans, but the government has vowed to go ahead with...