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Burma’s military government should immediately release all journalists arrested in connection with the Cyclone Nargis disaster, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. Four journalists are being detained by Burmese authorities, according to the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners Burma (AAPP), a Thailand-based assistance and rights monitoring group, and the Burma Media...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the abduction, torture, and forcible psychiatric hospitalisation of Sazak Durdymuradov, a contributing reporter for the Turkmen Service of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), in the Western city of Bakhaden. According to RFE/RL, Durdymuradov was seized by agents of the secret police (MNB) from his Bakhaden home on June 20...

Sazak Durdymuradov, a contributing reporter for the Turkmen Service of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), in the Western city of Bakhaden, has been abducted, tortured and subjected to forcible psychiatric hospitalisation. According to RFE/RL, Durdymuradov was seized by agents of the secret police (MNB) from his Bakhaden home on June 20 and forcibly taken to a local psychiatric...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the arrest of journalist Ahmed Al-Majoun in a raid by US and Iraqi soldiers on his home in Tikrit (180 km north of Baghdad) early on June 24. His son was also arrested. Majoun heads a journalists union based in Salah El Din, the province of which Tikrit is the capital. No reason has been given for their arrests. "We are disturbed to see that, just a...

A woman journalist covering the plight of Cyclone Nargis victims seeking aid from international NGOs in Rangoon has been detained by for over two weeks, according to her publication, Mizzima News has reported. Eint Khaing Oo, 24, a journalist with the weekly journal Ecovision, was arrested on June 10 as she covered the story of cyclone victims approaching NGOs for aid, according to an executive...

The row between the Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS) and daily Andhra Jyothi took a turn for the worse Tuesday with the arrest of editor K Srinivas and two reporters under the provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Hindu has reported. Some details: The arrest of the journalists was based on a complaint lodged by MRPS leader Manda Krishna Madiga alleging that the action...

Seven policemen have been arrested for allegedly torturing a reporter from private television channel Geo English and attempting to illegally detain him on Monday, the Daily Times has reported. Reporter Syed Essa Hassan Naqvi told Daily Times the men allegedly tried to detain him as he left a snooker club in Commercial Market, and that when he told the policemen he was a reporter they attacked him...

Saikou Ceesay, a reporter with the Banjul-based opposition Foroyaa newspaper, was arrested on June 15 and detained overnight in the Kotu police station in Kombo province, about 11 kilometres southwest of Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources reported that Ceesay was arrested at the police station while investigating the arrest and detention of pro...

Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, whose residence was searched by Mexican military personnel in May 2008 and who has subsequently been harassed by members of the Army, has sought asylum in the United States, fearing for his life and that of his son. The correspondent for the regional newspaper El Diario del Noroeste in Ascensión, a municipality in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, Gutiérrez...

An Azerbaijani journalist who has been honored by Amnesty International says authorities have prevented him from taking a flight out of the country, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Aqil Xalil, a 25-year-old correspondent with Azadliq, Azerbaijan's largest opposition daily, was shortlisted for Amnesty's Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat. The award...