Archive for November, 2010
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Khusein Shadiyev, editor of
Serdalo newspaper (Ingushetia – North Caucasus) has been hospitalised with a gunshot wound on Monday,
ITAR-TASS reported.
The journalist’s driver said a Zhiguli car drove up alongside the editor’s Volga, and gunshots were fired out of the vehicle’s half-open window, hitting Shadiyev’s right shoulder, according to
Kommersant. The aggressors quickly fled the scene and are still at large.
Shadiyev’s colleagues believe that the attack was related to the reporter’s work.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
A year after the Philippines witnessed the mass slaughter of 58 people, including 32 journalists, justice for the victims’ families seems a distant prospect. Harry Roque reports.
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
The lawyer of imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo has said his client will accept nothing other than
an unconditional release. His statement follows
recent reports that the authorities offered to release him into exile in exchange for a confession. Shang Baojun said he was unclear whether a specific offer had been made to the dissident, who is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power. Last week, it was revealed that Liu’s family are
being prevented from collecting the Nobel Prize in Oslo on his behalf.
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
The Muslim Brotherhood has said that more than 1,000 of its members and eight of its candidates
have been arrested ahead of next week’s parliamentary elections. Over recent days the group’s supporters have
clashed with security forces in several cities. The Muslim Brotherhood is banned from the elections but it bypasses restrictions by putting up their candidates as independents. This tactic proved successful in the 2005 elections and the brotherhood currently control a third of the seats in parliament. The
arrests have been criticised as part of a wider government crackdown on opposition electioneering.
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
The Attorney General’s Office today
made an unprecedented application for the court to remind Alan Shadrake of his right to seek leave of the court if he wants to leave Singapore. This implies that if his defence team applies for Shadrake to leave the jurisdiction, the prosecution would not contest it. Last Tuesday, he was
sentenced to six weeks in prison for
“scandalising the court” in his book Once A Jolly Hangman. Shadrake, who
appealed the sentence last week, has said that he will consider the offer.
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Trainee accountant found guilty of sending “menacing” messages over Twitter, is to attempt to appeal his conviction before the High Court
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
TV reporter Mazin Mardan, 18, has been
shot dead in front of his parents in his house in Mosul, northern Iraq. The gunmen showed up at his home around 6pm and identified themselves to his father as intelligence officers. According to
Reporters Without Borders, Mardan is the sixth Iraqi reporter killed in 2010. Not fewer than 230 journalists and media workers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion began in 2003, making Iraq one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists, CNN reported.
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
An 18-year-old blogger and women’s rights activist arrested last September, has been now put on trial.
Navid Mohebbi is charged with acting against national security, insulting the supreme leader, making propaganda against the state and supporting the
One Million Signatures women’s rights campaign.“He hasn’t been convicted yet, but I fully expect a lengthy jail sentence. They are afraid of women, of journalists/bloggers and of youth”, Mohebbi’s lawyer stated.
