(SEAPA/IFEX) - A state chief minister has followed through on his threat of suing a news site and two opposition politicians after failing to obtain compensation and retraction from them over allegations of corruption on his part, naming an additional news organisation - owned by the dominant ruling political party - in his suits. On 15 May 2007, Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud filed...
New York, May 17, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Wednesday’s grenade assault outside the offices of Cambio de Sonora, the second explosive attack in the last month against the Hermosillo-based daily. At 3:35 p.m., a grenade exploded in Cambio de Sonora’s parking lot in Hermosillo, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City, according to press reports and CPJ...
New York, May 17, 2007—Two radio reporters covering a provincial governor in south-central Somalia were gunned down on Wednesday after the official’s motorcade was ambushed by clan militia. News editor Abshir Ali Gabre and reporter Ahmed Hassan Mahad of Radio Jowhar were killed when the motorcade of Mohammed Omar Deele, governor of the Middle Shabelle province, came under attack from gunmen of a...
(IAPA/IFEX) - Miami (17 May 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called upon all print media readers in the hemisphere to sign a public letter to the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, urging him to ensure justice in the 10 March 1998 murder of journalist José Carlos Mesquita. Mesquita was killed with two shots to the head as he exited a television station he owned in...
(FMM/IFEX) - The FMM is perturbed to learn that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police questioned the Editor of The Morning Leader, Sonali Samarasinghe, for over four hours today based on a complaint ostensibly under Sri Lankan Monetary Law made by the Central Bank in relation to a series of investigative articles published in the Sunday Leader and Irudina newspapers...
ISLAMABAD: Legal and political wrangling over the suspension of the chief justice of Pakistan by President Pervez Musharraf appears to be leading to new pressures on the media, news organizations and media watchdog groups say. Media organizations and rights groups say that the government is becoming increasingly intolerant of the independent media's coverage of the judicial crisis that began in...
The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld termination of Paul Klebnikov’s case due to the disappearance of suspect - Kazbek Dukuzov, who is on the wanted list now. Forbes Russia Editor-in-Chief Paul Klebnikov was shot to death in Moscow on July 9, 2004. The Supreme Court also sustained the absentee arrest of Dukuzov despite the appeal of his lawyer, RIA Novosti reported. Alexander Chernov, who stands...
(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is a 15 May 2007 IAPA press release: IAPA calls for investigation into disappearance of two Mexican journalists MIAMI, Florida (May 15, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed concern at the disappearance of two journalists in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and called on authorities to take urgent action to put an end to the violence being unleashed...
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF says it fears the worst after the disappearance of TV Azteca Noroeste reporter Gamaliel López Candanosa and cameraman Gerardo Paredes Pérez on 10 May in Monterrey, in the northeastern state of Nuevo León, and called on the authorities to step up the search for the two journalists. "This brings the number of journalists who have gone missing since 2003 without being found to seven...
Beijing - A rise in the percentage of ad spending allocated to Internet and mobile media will intensify pressure on magazine publishers to adapt a fast-changing business landscape or die off, speakers at a key international publishing industry conference said in Beijing on Monday. "The magazine industry faces more and more competition," said John Ross, a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group...
