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THE likelihood of Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and journalist Colm Keena going to prison diminished greatly yesterday when no motion for committal to prison was brought by the Mahon Tribunal over the controversial Bertie Ahern “dig-out” payments story. The Mahon Tribunal yesterday started proceedings in the High Court aimed at compelling the newspaper to produce the document which led to a...

KARACHI: Journalists of the print and electronic media, from Karachi to Lahore and Islamabad, are under threat and they need to unite across the country. This was stated Tuesday during a Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) meeting held in protest of the Islamabad Press Club being sealed by the government, the harassment of newspaper employees in Karachi by armed individuals and the ban imposed on...

ISLAMABAD: Security Forces have barred journalists from coverage of Lal Mosque Operation on Tuesday after 'operation silence' was launched. Reports said that as soon as the operation started Security Forces took control of Polyclinic, CDA and PIMS Hospital and asked the journalists including patients and their attendants who were already there to leave the hospital. At this both the patients and...

ASMARA • Eritrea, where the private media was shut down in 2001, is the “largest jailer of journalists” in Africa, a press freedom group said yesterday. The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) called for pressure to be put on the Eritrean government to “release the imprisoned journalists whose only transgression was to have expressed their opinions.” “Based on information provided to...

Detective branch of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) Sunday night arrested one person allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu. KMP sources said a team of detective branch arrested Alhaj Nazimuddin Ahmed, a close neighbour of the slain journalist, from Iqbalnagar in the city. He will be interrogated for three days in police remand. Former president of Khulna Press Club and...

Certain countries act as though they are unaware of Article 26 in the Universal Declaration of Human rights which says that everyone has the "right to freedom of opinion and expression.'' It's the same one that says that everyone also has the right to "seek, receive, and import" information and ideas "regardless of frontiers." To cut to the chase, it's an article seeking to protect journalists...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged the government of Côte d’Ivoire to take urgent actions to put an end to newsrooms robberies after four media companies have been raided in a period of two months by armed groups who stole office equipment and documents. “We condemn these attacks, which are creating an environment of fear and panic in the press,” said Gabriel Baglo...

KARACHI, July 10: Journalists on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of a cameraman who was performing his duties during the Lal Masjid Jamia Hafsa operation in Islamabad, and demanded that the owners of newspapers and TV channels take appropriate measures to provide protection to journalists. They also demanded that the government should provide facilities to the media people and devise a...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about the survival of the privately-owned weekly "Public Eye" following an order from the government to all state and parastatal agencies at the start of June 2007 not to buy any more of its advertising space. "Allowing political and malicious considerations to determine where state advertisements and announcements are placed is outrageous...

New York, July 9, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Friday’s decision by an Azerbaijani appellate court in Baku to uphold the convictions of two independent journalists on charges of insulting Islam in a November commentary. On May 4, Judge Yusif Kerimov of Sabail District Court in Baku convicted Editor-in-Chief Samir Sadagatoglu and writer Rafiq Tagi of the independent newspaper...