Follow-up

Iván Hernández Carrillo, a Cuban journalist imprisoned since March 2003, was released on parole Saturday and permitted to remain in the country, bringing to 19 the number of reporters and editors freed after an agreement between the President Raúl Castro and the Catholic Church. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Cuban authorities today to lift all conditions on Hernández Carrillo's...

The police say journalist Le Hoang Hung’s wife, Tran Thuy Lieu, came to them on February 20 and confessed to causing his death by spraying him with a chemical as he slept and setting him on fire, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Lieu told the police she deliberately misled them by making it look as though an intruder was responsible. Her motives were...

Luke Harding, correspondent of the British daily The Guardian who was deported from Russia on February 5, returned to his job in Moscow on February 12 after being issued a new visa by the government. But the paper said Monday its expiry date was not indicated and that he could be forced to leave the country again on May 31, the date his old visa expires, according to Paris-based press freedom...

The regional bimonthly Tribune d’Afrique’s appeal hearing opened Thursday in Lomé but was immediately adjourned at the request of the lawyers representing Mey Gnassingbé, the president’s half-brother and a member of the president’s office, who brought a successful libel suit against the publication last year. Accepting the claims of Mey Gnassingbé’s lawyers that they had not had enough time to...

There was modest progress at the latest hearing in the trial of 19 people charged with the murder of Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink, who was gunned down outside his office in Istanbul in January 2007, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Prosecutors announced at the hearing, held on February 7, that a preliminary investigation has been...

Authorities in Karnataka state should drop charges against Tehelka magazine correspondent KK Shahina that appear intended to discredit her reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Police visited her residence in Kerala state twice in January and left notices for her to appear for questioning, leading her to fear she will be taken into custody, she told CPJ by email. In late...

Pedro Argüelles Morán, one of four journalists in jailed Cuba, began a hunger strike February 1 to protest against the authorities’ efforts to force him into exile as the price for freeing him. Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has appealed to him and another jailed journalist Albert Santiago du Bouchet, who has also started a hunger strike, to call off their action....

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the Burma Media Association have hailed the release of Aung Kyaw San, the editor of the now closed magazine Myanmar Tribune, from Taunggyi prison, in the eastern state of Shan, after his sentence was reduced from eight to two years. Arrested on June 15, 2008 along with 16 other people near the city of Bogale for helping to bury the bodies of Cyclone Nargis...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed outrage over the Baku Appeals Court's decision to reject imprisoned editor Eynulla Fatullayev's latest appeal and continues to defy a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that called for his release. On January 25, the court denied Fatullayev's appeal of his July conviction on a trumped-up charge of drug possession, the independent...

A Zagreb criminal court’s decision on Monday dismissed the charges that prosecutors had brought against the journalist Zeljko Peratovic at interior minister Tomislav Karamarko’s request, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). For the past two years, Peratovic has been target of several prosecutions initiated by Karamarko accusing him variously of defamation...