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An İstanbul prosecutor has pressed charges against Nokta newsweekly’s editor-in-chief Alper Görmüş for running a story that featured excerpts from a diary that was allegedly authored by former Navy Force Commander retired Admiral Özden Örnek. Görmüş is being indicted at the end of an investigation launched by the prosecutor’s office in İstanbul’s Bakırköy district on an appeal by Özden Örnek...

(RSF/IFEX) - The body of Pov Sam Ath, editor of the newspaper "Samleng Khmer Krom" ("Voice of the Khmers Kroms"), was found in a suitcase on 26 April 2007 in the Pich Nil valley in Kampong Speu province in the south of the country. The autopsy showed that his killer used the 29-year-old journalist's bicycle brake cables to strangle him. Reporters Without Borders called on the government, and...

New York, April 26, 2007—Authorities in Burkina Faso must fully investigate a death threat against outspoken journalist and free speech activist Karim Sama, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Sama received an anonymous e-mail last week warning that he “will be gunned down” over commentary that is critical of the government. Sama, host of two popular reggae programs on Radio Ouaga FM...

New York, April 26, 2007—Guatemalan television journalist Rudy Toledo was shot and wounded, and three other local reporters were attacked Wednesday while covering a mob’s fatal attack on a purported gang member in the northeastern province of Quiché. A group of about 100 people shot and burned an individual believed to be a member of the local gang Mara 18 in the town of San Andrés Sajcabajá, 62...

New York, April 25, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists journalist is gravely concerned about the recent arrest of Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, an award-winning journalist and writer. Thuy was taken into custody Saturday at her residence, where she was already being held under house arrest, according to news reports. She was charged with violating Article 88 of Vietnam’s criminal code, which...

New York, April 24, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the brutal attack on Uzeyir Jafarov, an editor and reporter for the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan, in the capital, Baku. Two unidentified men beat Jafarov as he was leaving the newspaper’s office Friday night, according to the journalist and international press reports. Earlier that day, Jafarov had testified in...

Islamabad - As Pakistan weathers its seventh week of crisis over the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, state authorities are tightening the screws on local media during their tenacious coverage of the highly politicized case. Licences for new media projects have been suspiciously withheld, lucrative government advertising contracts pulled in the wake of critical reporting, television...

New York, April 23, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is very concerned about the effective closure of the Educated Media Foundation in Moscow last week. The foundation, the successor to Internews Russia, has been shut down since last Wednesday, when economic police searched its premises for 11 hours, seized all financial records, and shut down the organization’s servers. At noon last...

New York, April 20, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s imprisonment in Baku of Eynulla Fatullayev, editor of the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan. The Yasamal District Court convicted Fatullayev on charges of libeling and insulting Azerbaijanis in an Internet posting that was attributed to the editor. But...

April 20, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A journalist investigating deadly violence in southeastern Kazakhstan is still missing three weeks after departing from Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty. Oralgaisha Omarshanova (also known by the name Zhabagtaikyzy) is a 39-year-old reporter for the Russian-Kazakh weekly newspaper "Law And Justice," based in the Kazakh capital, Astana. She traveled to the Almaty...