New York, May 21, 2007—Local authorities evicted the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan from their Baku offices on Sunday night, saying that the publications’ building violates safety regulations. The action comes amid a series of threats, attacks, and cases of harassment targeting the muckraking newspapers—including, most...
(SomaliNet) A newspaper columnist was this sentenced to six months in prison by a Maputo court for defaming an opposition politician, published in 2005 in an independent newspaper. The columnist for the weekly independent Zambeze newspaper, Edwin Hounnou, whose real name is Inacio Baptista, was found guilty of defaming Francisco Machambisse, a Renamo Electoral Union Member of Parliament. according...
ISLAMABAD: South Asian News Agency (Sana news) Chief Editor Shakeel Ahmed Turabi has been seriously wounded in a murder attempt on his life by sleuths of unknown secret agencies. Shakeel Ahmed Turabi was passing by Peshawar Mor in his car on Friday at around 11:45 am when a navy blue car bearing Chakwal number plate 4931 came on the side of his car and signaled Ahmed Turabi to stop. However when...
(IFJ/IFEX) - The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the regional group of the International Federation of Journalists, today condemned the brutal attack by police officers on Emil Ivanov, a well-known Bulgarian photojournalist who was assaulted as he was covering a criminal hearing at the National Palace of Justice in Sofia. Emil Ivanov, 55, and a member of IFJ/EFJ affiliate Podkrepa, was...
All reporters from Russian News Service have left the company to protest editorial policies which they describe as “censorship”. New managers of the news agency have banned any coverage for opposition movements, giving the air to members of the Kremlin-backed United Russia party and what they call “positive news”. Artem Khan, a correspondent from Russian News Service, said Thursday he and all his...
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the closure of the independent Arabic-language daily Al-Sudani on 16 May as a result of a complaint by the justice minister about an article accusing him of lying. “Closing a newspaper is a violation of democratic freedoms,” the press freedom organisation said. “President Omar Al-Bashir solemnly undertook to support democratisation in Sudan in a speech to...
New York, May 18, 2007—Haitian authorities must conduct a prompt and thorough investigation into the murder of radio journalist Alix Joseph, who was gunned down on Wednesday night in the northern city of Gonaïves, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ is investigating possible links between Joseph’s murder and his professional work. At 9:30 p.m., two unidentified men approached...
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the release of journalist Houssein Ahmed Farah, a contributor to the opposition weekly Le Renouveau and member of the Movement for Democratic Renewal (MRD), but condemned another raid on Le Renouveau that followed his release. Farah was freed on 13 May after a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to establish that he wrote an article published in the...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders voiced exasperation at the failure of the UN to resolve a dilemma under which Taiwanese journalists have again been refused accreditation to cover the World Health Assembly in Geneva simply because they are from Taiwan. For the fourth consecutive year, the UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have rejected accreditation requests from five Taiwanese...
(Globe International/IFEX) - Criminal charges were pressed against B. Tsognemekh, a reporter for the daily newspaper "Zuuni Medee", on 9 April 2007 and B. Ganbold, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, on 11 May 2007 pursuant to a complaint by Member of Parliament Ch. Ulaan. B. Tsognemekh has been charged under Criminal Code Article 110.1 (insult - imprisonment for a term of up to three months) and...
