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PESHAWAR: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have announced that June 15 (Friday) will be observed as ‘Global Action Day’ to safeguard press freedom in Pakistan on the eve of the first death anniversary of slain tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan, who was killed on June 16, 2006. According to the two organisations, the government...

KARACHI: Freelance journalist Iqbal Kazmi, who was booked by Darakhshan Police late on Tuesday night in four different cases, was sent to jail on judicial remand till June 16. Judicial Magistrate South Allah Bachayo issued the order. Judicial Magistrate East Samina Ghauri issued identical orders for Kazmi to be sent on judicial remand. According to police, the four cases registered against Kazmi...

KUALA LUMPUR: The police have recorded a statement from a reporter with an English daily for “excessive creative reporting” in the case of the landlord who fixed spy cameras in a house he rented out to female students. Sentul OCPD Asst Comm K. Kumaran said they would also interview a reporter with a Malay tabloid in connection with the case. “All the information concerning the case is confidential...

SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) -- An appellate court fined a local lawmaker Thursday for sexually harassing a woman reporter last year, overturning a lower court ruling that convicted him and delivered a suspended six-month imprisonment. The Seoul High Court fined Rep. Choi Yeon-hee, former secretary general of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP), five million won (US$5,300), suspending the...

MONTERREY, Mexico · Gamaliel Lopez Candanosa seemed an unlikely candidate to join the ranks of missing or murdered reporters in Mexico, now the second deadliest country in the world for journalists after Iraq. Known for his rascal's smile and laughing eyes, Lopez distinguished himself not as a hard-nosed investigative reporter, but as the clown prince of television news in this prosperous...

HATTIESBURG — The seizure of tape recordings by marshals from reporters from The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American during a 2004 speech by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia broke no laws, according to U.S. Marshals Service’s initial investigation. “Based on the information he had available, U.S. Marshals Service General Counsel also reviewed the allegations and determined that there...

Journalist Leopoldo Castillo appeared Thursday in the Attorney General Office as he was summoned in connection with an investigation into claims made by Minister of Communication and Information William Lara that local TV news channel Globovisión, and particularly Castillo's talk show Aló, Cuidadano (Hello, Citizen) were encouraging the assassination of President Hugo Chávez. Upon his arrival in...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has learned that Chalva Ramishvili, one of the co-founders of the independent TV station 202, has not received a presidential pardon, unlike his partner, 202 managing editor David Kokhreidze. The two journalists were convicted on flimsy evidence in March 2006 of extorting money from a parliamentarian. Ramishvili was sentenced to four years in prison...

KINSHASA (AFP) - Serge Maheshe, a Congolese journalist working for the UN-sponsored Radio Okapi, was shot dead late Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bukavu, the radio station said. The station's editor in chief Yves Renard told AFP: "One of our journalists, Serge Maheshe, was killed this evening at 9 pm (1900 GMT) in Bukavu." Maheshe, 31, was killed on the street while...

New York, June 13, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting of a Mexican journalist who had received death threats in connection with his investigation of the slaying of a U.S. journalist during violent street protests last fall in the southern city of Oaxaca. Misael Sánchez Sarmiento, a reporter for the Oaxaca-based daily Tiempo, was shot twice Tuesday evening by an...