A young Afghan journalist sentenced to death in northern Afghanistan on charges of blasphemy has been moved to Kabul ahead of an appeal due soon, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported. A primary provincial court in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif sentenced 23-year-old journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to death in January in a case that has attracted worldwide condemnation. He had no legal...
Tajik police have detained two men suspected of murdering a Russian television reporter who was found stabbed in a Moscow apartment with a belt around his neck, news agencies have reported. The detained men are Tajik nationals, Interior Ministry spokesman Khaidar Makhmadiev said, according to the Associated Press (AP) . He said he could not identify them by name. Interfax and ITAR-Tass news...
The South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) has condemned the harassment of journalist Iftikhar Gilani, reportedly by intelligence agents disguised as officials of the income tax department. SAMC also demanded that the Indian government conduct a fair investigation into the harassment. According to a press release Wednesday, SAMC condemned the Indian government’s actions, which it said had been under...
The six-month jail term handed down to leading Egyptian editor Ibrahim Eissa has come in for worldwide condemnation. The Boulak Abul Ela Court of Misdemeanor, on the outskirts of Cairo, sentenced Ibrahim Eissa, editor in chief of the independent daily Al-Dustour, to six months in prison for “publishing false information and rumors” about President Hosni Mubarak’s health. The court said the...
On the second anniversary of a police raid on the privately-owned weekly the Independent, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on the government to lift the illegal and unofficial ban that has prevented the newspaper from publishing for the past two years. “By suppressing a newspaper that was often very critical, the government broke the laws that it requires Gambians to respect under pain...
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) provided financial support for the publication Friday in N’Djamena of a “newspaper of newspapers,” a single issue combining most of the independent Chadian weeklies that have not appeared since a state of emergency was proclaimed on February 15. It calls for the repeal of a press law imposed by decree on February 20. “The independent N’Djamena-based press is showing...
The killer of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been identified and placed on the country's 'most wanted' list, news agency RIA-Novosti reported Friday quoting the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office. The journalist, who gained international recognition for her criticism of the Kremlin and reports of atrocities against civilians in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya, was...
The police have established the identity of two suspects in the murder of television Channel One reporter Ilyas Shurpayev, a spokesman for the Moscow investigation department of the Investigation Committee at the Russian Prosecutor’s Office told Itar-Tass on Thursday. “Two people who may be involved in the murder of Shurpayev have been identified by the present moment,” he said. No other...
An appeals court has issued a 60-day temporary restraining order on the trial of the suspected masterminds of the killing of a journalist. Osmeña Montañer and Estrella Sabay, accused of ordering the March 24, 2005 killing of journalist Marlene Garcia-Esperat, filed a petition on February 4 2008 for a temporary restraining order to prevent Cebu Regional Trial Court Judge Simeon Dumdum from hearing...
Questioning of new witness in the Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija's murder case has resumed, according to Tanjug news agency. In a supplement to the application for an investigation to be carried out, the Special Prosecution recently proposed questioning a further 10 to 15 new witness, and as well for a medical-ballistic forensic examination to be performed. The names of the witness, as well as...
