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Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about the state of health of jailed blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman and said it supported the complaint which his three lawyers filed yesterday accusing a prison official, identified as Medhat Samir, of conspiring to have him mistreated and held him in solitary confinement. Better known by the blog name of “Kareem Amer,” Suleiman has been held in...

BARCELONA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Leading European publishers are coming to terms with what teenage boys and men have known for years -- the Web beats magazines in grabbing their eyeballs. Magazine publishers such as London-based media group Emap (EMA.L: Quote, Profile, Research), Germany's Axel Springer (SPRGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) and France's Lagardere have seen a split growing in their...

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Noureddine Boukraa, the national daily Ennahar’s bureau chief in the city of Annaba (600 km east of Algiers), who was detained on 12 November in connection with an article about alleged corruption within the local security services and was held over night. “Algeria’s journalists are not able to work freely, despite the deceptive calm they seem to...

Kigali - A Rwandan journalist has been acquitted of genocide charges by a traditional court after serving 11 years in prison, a human rights group said on Tuesday. "The journalist is currently at home after being acquitted last week in a session of gacacas (traditional courts) of Ruhango in the central part of the country," said Venant Nshimyumurwa, a member of the League for the Defence of Human...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - Two journalists from a local Tamil daily, "Malaysia Nanban", have recently been the victims of either physical violence or death threats, allegedly over their work, reports local media watchdog Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ). Photojournalist R. Raman, 52, who is better known by his pen name "R. Kalaramu", is in a coma due to serious head injuries sustained during a beating...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Issues of the 28 October 2007 edition of "Proceso" magazine disappeared from the stands in the state of Guanajuato after a few individuals bought up almost all the copies of the publication, in an apparently concerted effort to prevent the public from reading the magazine's cover story, entitled "The Bribiesca towers". The story is about the business dealings of former first lady...

Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s conviction of two cartoonists on charges of insulting the Spanish crown in a front-page cartoon in the weekly El Jueves last July that showed Crown Prince Felipe having sex with his wife, Princess Letizia. The court fined cartoonists Guillermo Torres and Mantel Fontdevilla 3,000 euros each. “The conviction of these two journalists by the national...

(BIANET/IFEX) - Faruk Cakir, editor-in-chief of the "Yeni Asya" newspaper, is to be tried for two articles entitled "Council of State to Expand Case" and "Investigation of Council of State is Being Expanded". He is accused of violating the secrecy of an investigation. Bagcilar Public Prosecutor Ali Cakir has opened a case against Cakir. The articles said that the Ankara 11th Heavy Penal Court is...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Noureddine Boukraa, the national daily "Ennahar"'s bureau chief in the city of Annaba (600 km east of Algiers), who was detained on 12 November 2007 in connection with an article about alleged corruption within the local security services and was held overnight. "Algeria's journalists are not able to work freely, despite the deceptive...

Reporters Without Borders today deplored the “outrageous” charge by President Nicanor Duarte Frutos that opposition media were “enemies of the country” and expressed concern about growing intimidation of local media outlets in the run-up to national elections due next April. Duarte charged that the opposition media wanted to “destroy the future of our country and the dreams of our citizens” when...