Follow-up

The police in Croatia have detained the alleged perpetrators of the brutal attack on Jutarnji List journalist Dusan Miljus, according to the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO). On December 22, in the scope of operational actions under the name of "Shock 3", the Croatian police detained four suspects allegedly connected to the Miljus case. Two years ago, on June 2, 2008, in front of...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked at the arrest of a journalist in Imphal after what seems to have been a "sting" operation by the local police. Ahongsangbam Mobi, editor of a local daily, Sanaleibak, was arrested on December 29 and has reportedly been charged under India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for alleged contacts with a banned insurgent group, the...

A group of Ugandans identified as homosexual in a newspaper article headlined "Hang Them" have won damages and a court injunction ordering the paper not to repeat the exercise, human rights groups said Monday, according to The Guardian. A high court judge ruled that the story in the Rolling Stone newspaper, which printed addresses and photographs of some of the 100 people it named as "Uganda's top...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has described as baseless and unacceptable a claim by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid that Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, two French TV journalists who have been held hostage for the past year in northwestern Afghanistan, were “engaged in gathering information that has the nature of intelligence gathering.” “These grave...

Burmese state censors are clamping down on the publication of feature stories or interviews with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on orders from the government, the editor of People's Era journal said recently, according to Mizzima News. Editors of People's Era and the Venus journal met with Suu Kyi on December 21. On December 17, People's Era submitted the transcript of its interview with Suu...

Journalist José Luis Galdámez and his family deserve protection by Honduran authorities, according to an order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, reported the Associated Press. Galdámez has a radio program in which he has openly supported ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Galdámez has received several death threats and in September hesurvived, unharmed, an armed attack in front of his...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on the authorities in Burundi to release journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu, who has been held in custody for nearly six months at Mpimba prison in the capital Bujumbura. No trial has yet been opened in the case. “Jean-Claude Kavumbagu should be released immediately. He was arrested last July and is about to begin the year...

Iranian journalist Abdolreza Tajik, winner of the RSF 2010 press freedom award, has been freed after his family put up bail for a third time in the sum of 500,000,000 tomans (about 370,000 euros), Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. RSF said it was delighted at the release on Wednesday of the emblematic figure in the struggle for freedom and journalism in...

With just days to go to the first anniversary of the abduction of French TV journalists Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier and three Afghan assistants in northeastern Afghanistan, the French foreign ministry announced Monday that it has received and authenticated a video from their captors showing that they are still alive. “This is of course good news for the families, who have been reassured...

A French government spokesman indicated Tuesday that progress being made to secure the release of two French TV journalists abducted in Kabul nearly a year ago. Spokesman Francois Baroin told the broadcaster RTL: "The liberation process is ongoing, but this will still take some time." His remark came after a video surfaced in which the two journalists sent private messages to their relatives...