(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - A Memorandum by ARTICLE 19 highlights the failure of the new draft Constitution of the Republic of Montenegro to provide effective guarantees for freedom of expression. The proposed standard for restrictions on this fundamental right is low and the right of reply, as well as the right to claim damages for inaccurate media reporting, is given constitutional status. The draft...
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced concern about gruesome threatening messages aimed at journalists and the fact that one of the latest messages, which are being blamed on drug traffickers, was followed four days later by an apparent attempt to kill a leading investigative journalist by sabotaging her car. On 3 May 2007, World Press Freedom Day, the head of a corpse was left on a street in the eastern...
(CMFR/IFEX) - Two journalists from the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) were banned from entering the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig City on 9 May 2007 for an arranged interview with jailed opposition senatorial candidate and former Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV. Focap is the organization of foreign correspondents based in the Philippines. Douglas...
(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 10, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called for a full and transparent investigation into the police beating on Tuesday of prominent Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, a 2005 recipient of CPJ's International Press Freedom Award, and three other attorneys. Mtetwa, president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, suffered bruises on her back, arms...
HAVANA -- (AP) -- Cuba has released an imprisoned journalist after he served most of his 22-month sentence for participating in an anti-government rally, a local activist and a foreign media watchdog group said Thursday. Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, who reported for U.S. Web sites, was released from Valle Grande prison outside Havana Tuesday, according to veteran dissident Martha Beatriz Roque...
New York, May 10, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists is troubled by the detention since Sunday of a private newspaper director in the capital, Kinshasa, after he sought comments from a government official. CPJ last week named DRC one of the world’s worst backsliders on press freedom. Jean Pierre Phambu Lutette, director of the private bi-weekly La Tolérance was arrested by police when he...
ACAPULCO — Five evenings a week, Amado Ramirez fielded complaints from his radio listeners on everything from corrupt public officials to the booming drug trade in this famous resort city. Then, on a Friday night, just blocks from a beach-side strip of bars where thousands of tourists were partying, a gunman ambushed Ramirez in his car as he attempted to leave his Radiorama office. Bleeding...
(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (May 9, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today described as a very serious setback for freedom of the press in Uruguay a judge's sentencing of journalist Gustavo Escanlar Patrone to three months' imprisonment on a criminal libel charge. On April 18, after the appeal in lower courts failed, the Uruguayan Supreme Court upheld the May 18, 2006...
(Globe International/IFEX) - Globe International and the Open Society Forum in Mongolia organized a roundtable, "Against censorship!", on 2 May 2007, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. This day also witnessed several members of Parliament submitting a draft law on freedom of information. A public discussion on the draft law took place in the Open Society Forum's premises on 7 May. During...
(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 9, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death on Saturday of Mohammed Abdullahi Khalif, a contributor to the private radio station Voice of Peace in Somalia's northeastern, semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Khalif was killed by crossfire while covering an army raid on an illegal gun market in the city of Galkayo. Khalif died from a bullet to the chest...
