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Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest of writer and political activist Andrei Kilmau on 3 April on a charge of “inciting the regime’s overthrow” in an article posted on the Internet in which he was very critical of President Lukashenko and looked at options for changing the political system in Belarus. The organisation is also concerned about a parliamentary committee’s bill that...

(WiPC/IFEX) - WiPC is seriously concerned about "The Zimbabwean" reporter Gift Phiri, due to stand trial on 25 April 2007 on charges of working as a journalist without official accreditation and "publishing false news". WiPC is concerned about the treatment Phiri received while in police detention earlier this month, particularly allegations of torture. It fears that the charges against Phiri are...

April 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The trial began today of an independent Uzbek journalist accused of charges stemming from her trip across the border to report on 2-year-old violence in eastern Uzbekistan. Umida Niyazova faces allegations of illegally crossing the border and carrying contraband, and fostering unrest with the help of foreign funding. Niyazova appeared briefly in a Tashkent courtroom...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a government decision to withhold state advertising from the Standard Group media, which include The Standard daily newspaper and Kenya Television Network (KTN). “The culmination of a war of words in which the police and courts have at times been enlisted, this decision is absurd and dangerous,” the press freedom organisation said. “A state advertising...

A reporter for a government-run radio station was found dead with a gunshot wound to his chin in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, police said. The body of Carmelo Palacios, 41, a reporter for Radyo ng Bayan in northern Nueva Ecija province, was found sprawled in front of a roadside farm in the township of Santa Rosa, 90 kilometers (55 miles) north of Manila, said Chief Superintendent Ismael...

(RSF/IFEX) - On the third anniversary of the abduction and disappearance of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer in Abidjan, a news conference about the case was held on 13 April 2007 at the French national assembly by Reporters Without Borders, Kieffer's wife, Osange Silou-Kieffer, his brother, Bernard Kieffer, the president of "Truth for Guy-André Kieffer" support committee, Aline...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned yesterday’s heavy-handed raid by Nigeria’s domestic intelligence agency, the State Security Service, on the Abuja studios of African Independent Television (AIT), a privately-owned station. “With several elections due to be held this year, the federal government is violating the law with impunity in order to control news and information and to silence...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the jailing of Oscar Sánchez Madan, a Matanzas province correspondent of the Miami-based Cubanet website. Arrested on 13 April and summarily tried the same day, Sánchez was sentenced to four years in prison as a “pre-criminal social danger.” His imprisonment brings the number of independent journalists currently held in Cuba to 26. “The total of 27...

afrol News, 18 April - A military tribunal in the Congolese capital Kinshasha condemned the two main defendants - Joël Munganda and Papy Munongo - after they were found guilty of assassinating a Congolese journalist, Franck Ngyke and his wife, Hélène Mpaka. A third defendant,Didier Awatimbine, was sent to prison for life. Franck Ngyke was a political editor of the daily ‘La Reference Plus’ in...

New York, April 18, 2007—A court in the capital, Dakar, handed a prison sentence and heavy damages against a tabloid director on criminal defamation charges over a story trumpeting an alleged high-profile corruption scandal, according to local journalists and news reports. Ndiogou Wack Seck of the private, pro-government daily Il Est Midi was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay...