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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A reporter at a government-run radio station was fatally shot on a southern island Monday, the latest victim in a string of killings of journalists in the Philippines, a colleague and officials said. Vicente Sumalpong died of gunshot wounds in a hospital in the southernmost province of Tawi Tawi after two gunmen on a motorbike fired at him while he was picking up his...

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Clad in what appeared to be an explosive vest, kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston warned Sunday that his captors would turn their hideout into a "death zone" if any rescue attempt is made. "I do appeal to the Hamas movement and the British government not -- not -- to resort to the tactics of force in an effort to end this," Johnston said in a video clip released by his...

BUDAPEST, June 23 (Reuters) - A Hungarian journalist, who had reported on the illegal oil dealings of the 1990s, has been beaten and is in hospital with life-threatening injuries, national news agency MTI reported on Saturday. A spokesman for Budapest police told Reuters an angler had found a woman bound up on Friday night by the Danube river and she was taken to hospital with life-threatening...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which represents about 600,000 journalists around the world, is marking Sunday as a global day of solidarity with Iraqi journalists to highlight the increasing danger and uncertainty their colleagues face as the conflict in Iraq worsens. “In these dark and dangerous days, the journalists of Iraq are showing great courage and professionalism in...

COLOMBO, June 22 (Xinhua ) -- An international media freedom delegation said here Friday that journalists in Sri Lanka have become increasingly under threat in the environment of violence in the island's separatist armed conflict. The International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission, consisted of some 11 international media freedom organizations, highlighted the unhealthy culture of...

A documentary about the Air India tragedy, which took place 22 years ago this Saturday, is set to begin filming next month. To be called Flight 182, the film will be directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, who also helmed Beowulf & Grendel. CBC-TV has commissioned the two-hour documentary, which will include interviews with people involved in the events, Gunnarsson and her producer, David York, announced...

Journalist Jofelle Tesorio, who was ordered jailed by a local judge Thursday morning, was released after almost ten hours in detention. Tesorio was brought to a women's detention facility in Camp Karingal in Quezon City shortly after posting a P20,000 bail bond about 9 a.m. Thursday morning. Tesorio, former correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and editor of Bandillo ng Palawan, is facing...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 22, 2007 - Nigeria's leading independent broadcast network says it will take the government to court next week after authorities demolished three new station facilities in the capital, Abuja. African Independent Television (AIT) plans to sue for damages after the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), a local government entity, last week bulldozed without warning three...

(CMFR/IFEX) - A lawyer for the journalists who filed a class suit against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's husband Jose Miguel Arroyo has asked Makati City Judge Zenaida Laguilles to quash the defense subpoenas on eight of the journalist-plaintiffs. The subpoenas were received by the Roque and Butuyan law office, which handles the case of the journalists, on 18 June 2007. They require...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about a wave of court orders imposing "preventive censorship" on news media. In most cases, the orders are issued by local courts and are often quashed on appeal. Nonetheless, they feed a climate of intimidation and encourage self-censorship. "Legal measures against news media that defame, insult or violate the right to privacy are not in...