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Colombian journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, is being harassed and intimidated by the intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Duque, of Radio Nizkor, is about to present a file to the authorities exposing the persecution she has...

The exclusive account of Courtney C Radsch, a US journalist who recently lost her job at the Al Arabiya news website ( www.alarabiya.net) in the United Arab Emirates for posting information about safety violations by the national air carrier, Emirates Airlines: “ On Sunday October 4 one of my reporters asked me if we could write about a report on safety concerns at Emirates Airlines following a...

In the latest example of official paranoia and harassment of the press, Tashkent-based freelance journalists Vasiliy Markov and Sid Yanyshev were interrogated by police and members of the secret services about their work for more than 10 hours during a recent visit to the eastern border region near the city of Andijan, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The two journalists had gone to...

A judge in the western Saudi Arabia city of Jeddah has passed a sentence of 60 lashes on journalist Rozanna al-Yami because she worked for the Lebanese Broadcast Corporation (LBC), a satellite TV station that shocked conservative Saudis last July by broadcasting an interview with a Saudi man talking openly about his sex life, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The judge dismissed...

Zimbabwean intelligence agents recently mistreated two journalists working for Arab satellite TV station al-Jazeera, Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Cameraman Austin Gundani was physically assaulted and then held for three hours, with his reporter colleague Haru Mutasa, at the presidency where they had arrived on October 20 to cover a cabinet meeting from which Prime...

The editor-in-chief of Zambia’s largest newspaper was criminally charged for the second time on Wednesday after running an op-ed critical of controversial pornography charges against a journalist, according to local journalists and news reports. Magistrate David Simusamba charged Fred M’membe, a 1995 recipient of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award, and the daily Post with contempt of court...

Prominent radio journalist Herbin Hoyos Medina left Colombia on Monday after authorities uncovered a supposed plot to kill him, according to local news reports. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern about the threats against Hoyos and urges authorities to continue to provide protection and ensure that the journalist can return to Colombia and work without...

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned a October 7 police raid on the Tamil daily Dinamalar in Chennai and the arrest of its editor, B Lenin, over an article about Tamil actresses suspected of prostitution. Charged under the Tamil Nadu Women Harassment Act, he could remain in detention until October 21. “The police raid on Dinamalar was abusive and disproportionate and B Lenin’s arrest...

Algerian journalist and rights activist Hafnaoui Ghoul is on trial for writing articles critical of local authorities in Djelfa province, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Ghoul, a freelance journalist and human rights activist affiliated with the ‎Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights‎, is facing numerous charges—criminal defamation, insulting government agencies, and...

There has been a series of attempts to intimidate Jules Koum Koum, eeditor of Le Jeune Observateur, a Cameroonian weekly based in the southwestern city of Douala, according to Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF). “In recent weeks, this respected journalist has published several detailed and well-researched reports on corruption implicating a number of prominent people,” RSF said. “In so doing, he has...