Posts Tagged ‘journalist’
May 29th, 2009
Cuban journalist Victor Rolando Arroyo is in his second week of hunger strike as a protest to lack of medical attention, bad sanitary conditions in his cell, his cruel treatment, and the fact that he has not been allowed to practice religion. Arroyo was sentenced in April 2003 to 26 years in prison for acting “against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state”. Read more
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April 21st, 2009
Iran’s judiciary spokesman has said that the eight-year jail term for Roxana Saberi may be reconsidered on appeal, an indication her sentence will be commuted. Read more
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April 18th, 2009
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of spying for the US by a Tehran court.
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November 25th, 2008
Jagjit Saikia, district correspondent for the newspaper
Amar Asam, was killed by unknown assailants on 22 November in the town of Kokrajhar.
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November 14th, 2008
Vietnam’s journalists suffer when they dig too deep, writes Nick Caistor
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October 24th, 2008
Journalist Ivo Pukanic and marketing executive Niko Franjic have been killed in a car-bomb attack in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
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October 14th, 2008
Diyar Abbas Ahmed, a reporter with private news agency Ain, was shot by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday.
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July 30th, 2008
The Crown Prosecution Service stated there is ‘insufficient evidence’ to prosecute any US soldier over the death of ITN journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq. On 22 March 2003 Terry Lloyd was injured in crossfire between Iraqi troops and American tanks outside Basra. A civilian minibus taking the wounded reporter to hospital was fired upon by US forces, killing Lloyd and his translator Hussein Osman.
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June 19th, 2008
Today’s ruling may help to fend off ‘fishing expeditions’, writes
Padraig Reidy
A London court today ruled that the production order served on journalist Shiv Malik was ‘too wide’ in its scope.
Malik, who was written extensively on UK jihadists and extremism, was served a production order for materials relating to his book Leaving Al Qaeda, co-authored with former Al Muhajiroun member Hassan Butt.
Greater Manchester Police Counter Terror Unit must now draw a new, more specific, production order, to be presented to the court on 26 June.
Speaking after the ruling, Malik said: ‘In an age of terrorism and counter terrorism, and wide-ranging, dragnet legislation, the courts have taken it upon themselves to limit the powers handed down by the government to the police. They have denied the police the right to go on unlimited fishing expeditions. In doing so they recognised the right of sensible and determined journalists to protect confidential sources.
‘They have also raised their concerns in regards to the direct prosecution of journalists when it comes to withholding information in terror investigations. In a free society journalists should never themselves be prosecuted for carrying out their regular functions, and I am grateful to the judges in the high court for raising their concerns on this point of law.’
Jeremy Dear of the National Union of Journalists, which supported Malik in the case said: ‘Today’s judgment isn’t just a victory for Shiv Malik. It’s also a victory for all those who believe in the importance of investigative journalism.
‘The ruling sends a clear signal to the police that they can’t see journalists as simply another tool of intelligence gathering.’
‘The NUJ backed Shiv Malik’s case because journalism matters, and we will continue to challenge those who fail to respect its vital role in our democracy.’
April 14th, 2008
Richard Butler, a British journalist working with American network CBS, has been freed after being held hostage for two months.
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March 20th, 2008
Five Jordanian journalists have been sentenced to prison terms in two separate defamation cases in the past week. Editor Taher al-Adwan and reporter Sahar Qassam, of
Al Arab al Youm, and former editor of
Ad Dustour Osama Sharif and
Ad Dustour reporter Fayez Louzi were each sentenced on 13 March to three months for ‘insulting the judiciary and commenting on its rulings’.
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March 4th, 2008
The murder of Shahab Al-Tamimi highlights the difficulties faced by Iraqis trying to build a free press and civil society, say Dave Anderson and Gary Kent
Are we becoming inured to the murders of journalists and civil society leaders in Iraq? The outcry is minimal when another brave figure doing his patriotic duty at some considerable risk is deliberately targeted and murdered.
Journalists are regular targets for the insurgents and criminal gangs, and some have been killed by US forces. In 2007, 25 journalists and media assistants were kidnapped in Iraq; 208 reporters have died on duty since 2003.
The latest victim of what is almost certainly a strategy of terror and decapitation of the political leadership of the new labour movement is 75 year-old Shahab Al-Tamimi, the leader of the Iraqi Journalists’ Union since 2003.
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February 26th, 2008
Agil Khalilov, a reporter for the Azerbaijani daily paper
Azadlig, was beaten whilst filming an illegal land sale.
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February 12th, 2008
A journalist was shot dead in Algeciras as Colombia celebrated the national Day of the Journalist.
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February 11th, 2008
Repé Kabamba, a Congolese freelance journalist, was arrested last Thursday, 7 February, by members of Gabon government security organisation B2. He had been his way to interview the head of the Office of Ports and Harbours (OPRAG), in Libreville, about allegations of embezzlement. The B2 unit is run by the brother of the OPRAG director, Jean-Pierre Oyiba. Kabamba was released the next day, after having his house searched without a warrant and his residence permit, press card, diplomas and mobile phones confiscated.
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February 5th, 2008
Radio journalist Alejandro Rupay was assaulted during a live broadcast on 30 January. Rupay, a presenter with Radio FM 98 in the town of Tingo Maria, central Peru, was beaten and threatened after the brother of the district’s governor burst into the studio during transmission. Rupay was hit in the face and warned to “stop irritating the governor or worse will happen to you”. The assault occurred a week after Rupay had made comments alleging the governor had been involved in corruption.
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January 30th, 2008
A court in Baku, Azerbijan, has sentenced two journalists to hard labour following their conviction for libel. The charges related to articles they published in 2007 regarding alleged corruption in government circles.
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January 29th, 2008
The situation for journalists in the north of the country is deteriorating, writes Harun Najafizada
Police in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz beat up a local journalist last week, apparently because he wrote a story critical of Afghan National Police activities.
Hameed Mashhoon, the editor of independent weekly newspaper Sada-e Watan (the Voice of Homeland) was beaten up in downtown Kunduz while he was buying medicine at a pharmacy.
Mr Mashhoon told reporters that right after he left the pharmacy, a police officer attacked him, hitting him with the stock of his Kalashnikov.
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January 24th, 2008
A young reporter has been found guilty of blasphemy, writes Harun Najafizada in Balkh
A primary court in the city of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan has sentenced local journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to death.
Kambakhsh, 23, a reporter for Jahan-e Naw (New World) weekly and a student of journalism at Balkh University has been accused of blasphemy and misrepresenting the verses of the Quran.
On Tuesday afternoon, the primary court of Mazar-e Sharif convened a session behind closed doors and announced the verdict after a three-hour discussion.
The session, which was not attended by defending lawyers, journalists or human rights defenders, or even by Kambakhsh’s relatives, has been widely criticised for issuing such a strong sentence and ignoring the Afghan constitution.
Kambakhsh, who was arrested three months ago by the National Security Department (the intelligence service) and kept in prison, had downloaded an article from an Iranian website and distributed it to his friends.
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