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Reporters Without Borders today called for the federal authorities to be fully involved in the investigation into yesterday’s murder of Amado Ramírez, the correspondent of the privately-owned TV station Televisa, in Acapulco, in the southern state of Guerrero, in a wave of killings that has left 14 dead in the past 24 hours. “Ramírez’s death must be taken seriously by the authorities,” the press...

(CJES/IFEX) - Vladimir Voloshin, editor-in-chief of the Salekhard newspaper "Krasny Sever", and Pavel Razuvayev, a journalist with the newspaper, have been forced to resign. They resigned shortly after the elections to the Yamal region's parliament, which were held on 28 March 2007. According to Razuvayev, the journalists were asked to resign by officials from the information department of the...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: A wealthy businessman once considered a suspect in the assassination of Haiti's best-known journalist was shot to death near his house in an apparent contract killing, police said Thursday. Robert Lecorps, who also was implicated in the 1993 assassination of a Haitian justice minister, was killed Wednesday in the upscale Port-au-Prince suburb of Pernier, police spokesman...

Reporters Without Borders called today for an independent investigation into the death of freelance cameraman Edward Chikomba, a former employee of the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH), who was found dead on 31 March, two days after being kidnapped in Harare by men suspected of being members of the intelligence services. “We are utterly dismayed by this murder, which comes at a...

Harare/Johannesburg - A British reporter for Time magazine who was arrested in southern Zimbabwe last week for working without a press card has been convicted and fined, reports said Tuesday. Alexander Perry, 37, was arrested Friday near the mining town of West Nicholson while interviewing a small-scale miner on the effects of the government's controversial crackdown on the sector, reports the...

On the seventh anniversary of radio Haïti Inter owner and manager Jean Dominique’s murder on 3 April 2000 in Port-au-Prince, Reporters Without Borders notes with regret that the investigation that was relaunched two years ago has still not yielded any results and impunity continues to prevail in this case. “It will clearly take time to put an end to violent crime and the rule of the gangs, one of...

A new media watchdog christened South Asian Media Commission, will monitor journalists' safety and violation of media rights and publish periodical reports. It is envisaged to respond with speed to such violations to press for remedial action. The new mechanism came into place even as Union Information Broadcasting Minister, Priyaranjan Dasmunshi called for monitoring the pressure exerted by the...

The 60-day prison sentence passed by the high court of the central province of Cotopaxi on Nelson Fueltala, the correspondent of the La Gaceta daily newspaper and Radio Latacunga, for insulting the mayor of Pujilí was disproportionate and liable to encourage self-censorship, Reporters Without Borders said today. “This court’s ruling is both grossly unjust and dangerous,” the press freedom...

Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage today at the arrest of a journalist working for a privately-owned Zimbabwean daily published outside the country and the hospitalisation of the former editor of the now-closed paper The Daily News, after he was beaten in prison, and called for an international campaign to stop the government’s violence. “The government is stepping up its years-long...

(CMFR/IFEX) - For failing to defend himself in court because he could not afford a lawyer, a radio broadcaster from Davao has been convicted of libel and is now serving time in jail. Davao is a province located south of Manila. Libel is a criminal offence in the Philippines. Alex Adonis, who used to be a commentator of the radio station dxMF Bombo Radyo (Booming Radio), was convicted of libel by...