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Miguel Badillo Cruz, editor of Contralínea and Fortuna magazines, was arrested by police near his home in Mexico City on the morning of January 16, the Centro de Periodismo y Etica Publica (CEPET) has reported. The editor has been charged with "insult to authorities" (desacato) by a judge in Jalisco state. He is currently under "administrative arrest", having apparently been detained on a warrant...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has demanded an explanation from the authorities about the reasons and circumstances of the arrest of community journalist Francisco Farinango in Ñaño Loma, in the Pichincha region of northern Ecuador. The reporter on Radio Intipacho was arrested January 20 with three other members of his Tupigachi community on the sidelines of nationwide demonstrations by...

Raúl Wiener, the head of the investigative section of the left-wing Peruvian daily La Primera, has been charged with a “crime against public peace” and “terrorism” after revealing that the same charges had been brought against 13 leading Peruvian leftists with alleged links to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Wiener is due to be...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the sabotage attempt against LT6 Radio Goya in Corrientes, capital of the province of the same name in Argentina. Saboteurs cut through the cables of the radio’s aerial, preventing it from broadcasting on its usual frequency and reaching all its listeners. The 70-metre structure supporting the aerial collapsed suddenly on January 12 taking programmes...

A charge has been brought at the behest at interior minister Tomislav Karamarko against a journalist who writes about war crimes in the 1990s. Zeljko Peratovic is accused of “disseminating information likely to upset the population” under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code, which carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison as well as a possible fine, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has...

Ramazan Esergepov, editor in chief of the "Alma-Ata Info" newspaper, is continuing his hunger-strike in National Security Committee (KNB) custody and refusing to be interrogated, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has reported. The report said: [ Link] His wife, Raushan Esergepova, told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service that her husband is insisting that a security service other than the KNB conduct...

Two Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondents are being continually harassed in Turkmenistan. Dovletmurat Yazguliev and Osman Hallyev, who report for RFE/RL’s Turkmen service from the provinces, have both been subjected to threats and intimidation by local intelligence officers in the last two weeks, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “Similar situations in the past have ended...

Zimbabwean photojournalist Anderson Shadreck Manyere, who was arrested on December 24, was remanded in custody on January 9 by a court in Harare despite allegations that he was tortured while in police detention, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists. Manyere is expected to return to court on January 23. Defence lawyer Alec Muchadehama had asked...

Two journalists and three leading civil society members have been detained at the Libreville headquarters of the criminal investigation police of Gabon for the past week—longer than the legal period for police custody—without any explanation being given. Other journalists have been questioned in connection with the case in the past few days, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “The...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern at the ongoing police persecution of two Ugandan journalists. The police's Media Offences Department has repeatedly interrogated the two over a story critical of the government's handling of an international security operation against the rebel Lord's Resistance Army last month, according to a local lawyer and journalists. The two...