(IPYS/IFEX) - On 7 November, "El Informador" newspaper journalist Gerardo Morón, was beaten by a group of hooded persons when he covered the march which had been organized by university students in Barquisimeto, state of Lara, to protest against the constitutional reform. The assailants took away his camera, his cell phone, his personal documents and a bag with 120,000 bolívares (US$ 55). They...
Reporters Without Borders welcomes a Dubai appeal court’s decision on 8 November to overturn the convictions of the former editor of the English-language Khaleej Times, Shimba Kassiril Ganjadahran, and one of his reporters, Mohsen Rashed, on charges of libel. The two journalists had been sentenced on 24 September to two months in prison for a story about a Dubai woman’s lawsuit against her husband...
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns physical attacks on five journalists on 9 November by opponents of a constituent assembly sitting in Sucre. Claims by President Evo Morales in the past few days that “the media” are systematically opposing his government are all the more regrettable as the victims of the violence are employed by both state and privately-owned media. “We have written to...
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the arbitrary closure of Mogadishu’s embattled Radio Shabelle by the security forces today as a major sweep got under way against Islamist insurgents in the nearby Bakara market. “The contempt displayed by the Somali authorities for independent news media has reached a new level with Radio Shabelle’s closure,” the press freedom organisation said....
In the introduction to Nelson Mandela's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, the former South African president speaks of his deep gratitude to Richard Stengel for his efforts in editing, revising and writing parts of the 630-page opus. "I recall with fondness our early morning walks in Transkei and the many hours of interviews in Johannesburg," says Mr Mandela of the American. Sitting in the...
Islamabad (PTI): The Pakistan government on Saturday ordered three journalists of Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper to leave the country within 72 hours, accusing them of using "abusive" and "foul language" against the country and its leadership. The action was taken against Isambard Wilkinson, Colin Freeman and Damien McElroy under emergency regulations for using "foul and abusive language...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Ten Darfuris accused of beheading a Sudanese journalist were sentenced to death by firing squad on Saturday, a punishment usually reserved only for the military, the defence said. Sudanese editor of the al-Wifaq daily Mohamed Taha was kidnapped by armed men from his home last year and his decapitated body was found the following morning lying on the street in southern Khartoum...
Journalists across Pakistan marked today as a Black Day for the country’s media, led by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in protest at the Government’s failure to meet the PFUJ’s deadline for a withdrawal of anti-media ordinances issued by President Pervez Musharraf at the weekend. Anchors on Pakistan television channels that are able to circumvent the regulations by broadcasting...
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe police on Friday brought in for questioning an editor and two executives from two leading independent media houses, newspaper officials and a police spokesman said. Hama Saburi, editor of financial weekly The Financial Gazette, said he and the newspaper's chief executive were on their way to a police station for apparently violating government price controls. "The...
HEBRON, West Bank, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A major Palestinian news service stopped broadcasting on Friday to protest the arrest of one of its top editors by Palestinian police after his station broadcast a speech by a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip. Executives from the Maan agency said Mu'taz al-Kurdi, a member of its board and director of Hebron's al-Amal television station, was arrested on Thursday...
