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The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday condemned the attack on the offices of Telugu daily Andhra Jyoti by the activists of an organisation representing the backward Madiga community, terming it as an assault on "freedom of press". "This is an attack on the freedom of the press and there is use of intimidatory and inflammatory methods to silence the voice of the editors and journalists of Andhra...

Rehmat Shah Afridi, the editor of Pakistani dailies Frontier Post and Maidan, has been released after nine years in prison on trumped-up drugs charges. He was freed on parole on May 24 on the orders of Punjab’s interior ministry. "Afridi’s release is excellent news for his family and friends and is a first step towards redressing a case that lacked transparency and led to his being given two death...

An Iraqi television station accused US troops Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home. The body of a second journalist, Haidar Hashim al-Husseini, a reporter for Al-Sharq newspaper, was found dumped in a field with nine other corpses in Diyala province, police and colleagues said. A spokeswoman for the Afaq television channel, according to a Reuters report...

Three men accused of killing Congolese journalist Serge Maheshe in 2007 were convicted and sentenced to death, while two others were acquitted in a retrial that ended Wednesday. The trial failed to establish a clear motive for the crime, according to news reports and local journalists. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern that key aspects of the case remain...

Kosovan journalist Baton Haxhiu pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of publishing the name of a protected witness during the war crimes trial of Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, according to a Reuters report. Prosecutors at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague had indicted the Kosovan journalist and had him arrested on Tuesday for contempt of court. He was the third Kosovo...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern at delays in the trial of two government officials accused of ordering the 2005 murder of columnist Marlene Garcia-Esperat. The trial has been brought to an indefinite halt because of questions surrounding jurisdiction. The Cebu Court of Appeals issued an injunction last week that bars the Cebu City Regional Trial Court from proceeding...

A court of appeals in the Philippines has issued prohibited the a regional trial court from proceeding with the case against the suspected masterminds in the 2005 murder of journalist Marlene Esperat, according to the Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR). Cebu is a province approximately 562 km south of Manila. In a five-page resolution penned by Associate Justice Francisco Acosta...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced concern about the danger of continuing to detain journalist Mohammad Sadegh Kabovand after he suffered an attack of dizziness Monday in his cell in Tehran’s Evin prison. He has been held since last July and his family is unable to raise the money for his bail, set at 150 million toumen (145,000 euros). “There seems to be no limit to the persecution of...

A Venezuelan court has convicted a former police officer for the 2006 murder of photojournalist Jorge Aguirre, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The Caracas 14th Mixed Trial Tribunal convicted Boris Blanco, a former police officer in the Chacao municipality of Caracas, of Aguirre’s homicide, according to reports in the Venezuelan media. The court gave Blanco a 15-year prison...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Journalists is looking into the killing of two radio journalists from the Triqui indigenous community in Oaxaca. This welcome development inspires hope that impunity will not prevail in this case, unlike the way it has in the murders of so many other journalists in Mexico, ARTICLE 19 and Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS) have...