Follow-up

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern over the safety of Khadija Abdul Qahaar, publisher of the website Jihad Unspun, who has been held by abductors in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas for more than four months. Qahaar, a Canadian who changed her name from Beverly Giesbrecht when she converted to Islam in 2002, disappeared on November 11, 2008, while...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over the safety of Khadija Abdul Qahaar, publisher of the website Jihad Unspun, who has been held by abductors in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas for more than four months. Qahaar, a Canadian who changed her name from Beverly Giesbrecht when she converted to Islam in 2002, disappeared on November 11, 2008, while travelling...

Journalists in Assam have served a seven-day ultimatum to the state government for arresting those responsible for the killing of Anil Mazumdar, executive editor of daily Aji on Tuesday night. The Journalists Action Committee (JAC) has warned that lackadaisical attitude on the part of the government to carry the investigation forward will compel the journalists fraternity to take up vigorous...

The already murderous conditions for the press in Sri Lanka and Pakistan deteriorated further in the past year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes. Colombia, historically one of the world’s deadliest nations for the press, improved as the rate

On February13, 2009, Venezuelan authorities arrested Rafael Segundo Pérez, a former sergeant for the Carabobo police, in connection to the January 16 killing of journalist Orel Sambrano, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. Pérez is accused of working as a hired assassin and conspiring to commit a crime. Police Commissioner Robinson Castillo told...

A Bujumbura court has acquitted Jean-Claude Kavumbagu, the editor of the Net Press news website, of defaming President Pierre Nkurunziza, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. He had been held since September 11 last in pre-trial detention in Mpimba central prison as a result of a complaint brought by the government secretary-general. The complaint was prompted by a report claiming that...

Local newspaper editor Mohamed Abdi Guled was released on bail on March 20 by a court in Hargeisa, the capital of the northern breakaway territory of Somaliland. The editor of the Hargeisa-based weekly Yool, Guled had to pay bail of 1 million Somaliland shillings (530 euros), Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. A court in Hargeisa had sentenced Mohamed Abdi Guled to five months in prison...

A judge has ordered the release of French freelance photographer Jean-Paul Ney, who has been held in custody for 15 months in connection with an alleged “plot” to undermine Cote d’Ivoire's peace process, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Ney, who spoke by phone from Maca prison in the capital Abidjan to the worldwide press freedom organisation’s secretary-general, Jean-François...

Serbian authorities must step up their investigation into the killing of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija, the International Press Institute and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation, said Wednesday, one month before the 10th anniversary of his death. Slavko Ćuruvija was shot dead by two masked men in front of his home in the centre of Belgrade on April 11, 1999, Serbian...

More than a year-and-a-half after the murder of Oakland Post reporter Chauncey Bailey, new evidence incriminating Yusuf Bey IV, the former head of Your Black Muslim Bakery, has come to light. Suspected of being the crime's mastermind, he has nonetheless not been charged yet. On March 4, a confidential informant implicated Yusuf Bey IV in the killing of the veteran journalist in August 2007. The...