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1 March 2010

In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail

A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested Monday for the third time this year—this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in the capital, Harare, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said quoting local journalists. Officers of Zimbabwe’s Prison Service arrested Andrison Shadreck Manyere, an award-winning photojournalist and videographer, after he filmed the...

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26 February 2010

A 'disturbing spate of police violence against journalists in India

There has been a wave of police violence against journalists in Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. There have been a total of 13 cases of abusive treatment and physical attacks by police against media personnel in February alone. “Given that a police officer was recently suspended for hitting a Dalit woman in the state of Uttar Pradesh, it would be appropriate to punish police...

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26 February 2010

Palestinian Authority ignores court, jails journalist

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to heed a High Court order and release journalist Tariq Abu Zaid immediately. A four-person special military court in Nablus sentenced Abu Zaid, a correspondent who reported on camera for Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, to 18 months in prison on February 16 on charges of "undermining the status of the authority, and...

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19 February 2010

Belarus: Leading journalist harassed over coverage of trial of top officials

Investigative journalist Maryna Koktysh, the deputy editor of the Minsk-based independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya, is being continually harassed over her coverage of a case involving senior police officers and interior ministry officials in the southeastern Belarus city of Homyel, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “The independent press has just done its duty by reporting...

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17 February 2010

Harassment of privately-owned newspaper Zimbabwean

Zimbabwean authorities are still harassing and intimidating the Zimbabwean, a privately-owned newspaper that is edited in Britain and printed in South Africa. In the latest instance, criminal charges of “publishing falsehoods” have been brought against the directors of Adquest, the company that distributes it inside Zimbabwe. No date has yet been set for their trial, according to Reporters sans...

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12 February 2010

CPJ condemns police harassment of Nigerian editor

Mallam Tukur, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the independent weekly, Desert Herald, based in Kaduna State of Nigeria has been arrested for defamation, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Two plainclothes police arrested Tukur on defamation charges at his office in Kaduna on February 8 and took him to a police station in Bauchi State. He was released on bail the following...

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11 February 2010

Turkey: Supporters of Hrant Dink's alleged killer hack into newspaper’s website

Hackers broke into the website of the Turkish and Armenian-language newspaper Agos Thursday and succeeded in posting a photo of Ogün Samast – the youth who is on trial for the January 2007 murder of the newspaper’s founder, Hrant Dink – together with a Turkish flag background and around 10 lines of ultra-nationalistic comments, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Headlined “Our good...

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9 February 2010

Cameroon: Authorities urged to account for journalists held incommunicado

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on Cameroon's National Security Chief Emmanuel Edou to immediately explain what has happened to two journalists, Simon Hervé Nko’o and Serge Sabouang, who were arrested by members of the General Directorate for External Investigation (DGRE), an intelligence agency, on February 5. There has been no news of them since then. “The unacceptable manner in which...

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5 February 2010

Belarus: Authorities step up pressure on independent journalists

The Belarusian police are increasingly harassing and intimidating independent journalists by charging them with relatively minor offences, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. In the latest case, Ivan Shulha, a journalist who works for the privately-owned satellite television station Belsat TV and who is an active member of the independent Belarus Association of Journalists (BAJ), was...

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5 February 2010

In Yemen, disappeared journalist claims he was tortured

Muhammad al-Maqaleh, editor of the opposition Yemeni Socialist Party’s news website Aleshteraki, who was detained in September has finally appeared in government custody. He is being held without charges, local news outlets reported, and alleges that he has been tortured, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Al-Maqaleh was detained by unidentified men in Sana’a after writing an...

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