Follow-up

Israel’s ambassador to the United States expressed regret over the death of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, who was killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip in April, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). “Israel’s Ambassador Sallai Meridor met yesterday with the Committee to Protect Journalists delegation at their request,” said a statement from the Israeli...

(Glasnost Defence Foundation): Larissa Yudina, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Sovetskaya Kalmykia Segodnya" (SKS), was killed in Elista, capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, on 7 June 1998. For several years prior to the murder, attempts were made to close down Kalmykia's sole independent newspaper. Yudina had been unlawfully dismissed and steps had been taken to get the staff out into the...

The management of the Reporte de la Economía daily has accused a network of five bankers of being behind the murder of its vice-president, Pierre Fould Gerges, who was gunned down in Caracas on June 2. The newspaper's lawyer, Giselle Suárez, said at a news conference on June 9 that the investigation was focussing on a financial group that "constitutes an appendage of the state, which has created a...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Israeli authorities to release the findings of an army investigation into the killing of a Reuters cameraman by an Israeli tank shell in the Gaza Strip two months ago. In a meeting with Israel’s ambassador to the United States, the CPJ delegation also urged the government to commit to a thorough, impartial, and credible inquiry into the killing...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called is calling on European Commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, to raise the problem of risks to journalists covering fighting in the Palestinian territories at the Israel-EU Association Council meeting in Luxemburg on June 16. “The death of Fadel Shana, of the British news agency Reuters, on 16 April 2008, has reawakened our concern...

Mexican police botched the murder investigation of a journalist working near the US border in 2004 by torturing suspects and mishandling evidence, the country's human's rights commission said, according to a Reuters report. Roberto Mora, editorial director of El Manana newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, regularly wrote columns about drug trafficking and corrupt...

The European Court of Human Rights has found Greece guilty of violating freedom of expression by convicting the daily I Avgi and its editor, Konstantinos Karis, of libel in 2003 for describing former journalist Kyriakos Velopoulos as a “known out-an-out nationalist” in a June 2000 article, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Velopoulos, who was elected last year as a parliamentary...

There have been new developments in the investigation into the 1997 death of Jean-Pascal “JPK” Couraud, a leading investigative journalist based in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia. According to a report on Le Monde’s website on June 6, the Papeete judge now in charge of the case, Jean-François Redonnet, searched the Paris headquarters of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE...

The criminal case against Andrei Dumler, the head of the information agency Baikal Media Consulting (BMK), has been thrown out of court, the Moscow-based Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES) has reported. The journalist was charged with slandering the department of the Federal Service for the Enforcement of Punishments (UFSIN) for the Republic of Buryatia. In November 2007, a report...

A man arrested on suspicion of being a member of a militia that abducted and tortured a reporter, photographer and driver of the O Dia newspaper in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Batan on May 14 was shown to the press on June 4 by members of a police unit known as the Delegation for Repression of Criminal Actions and Special Investigations (DRACO). He was identified as Davi Liberato de Araújo, 32...