Posts Tagged ‘journalists’
April 15th, 2013
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September 10th, 2012
Ethiopia has
pardoned two Swedish journalists charged with supporting terrorism and will release them soon, a government source said on Monday. Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were sentenced to 11 years in prison in
October 2011, after illegally entering the country with ethnic rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front. The chairman of the Swedish Union of Journalists, Jonas Nordling, said that the sentence aimed to deter journalists from investigating alleged human rights abuses in the Ogaden region, adding there was
no evidence to support the pair’s conviction on terror charges.
August 10th, 2011
As chaotic rioting and looting spreads across London and other British cities, journalists have been among those
assaulted by troublemakers in the capital. A
BBC crew was attacked on Monday night while driving through Croydon, where shops were looted and burnt to the ground. In Ealing, local reporter Michael Russell was beaten and had his camera stolen by rioters. Reporting from Hackney,
Guardian journalist
Paul Lewis said he had seen a handful of reporters being “thrown to the floor and beaten by a group of youths.” Also in Hackney, BBC junior journalist Alex Hudson was threatened by rioters and told to delete his images.
April 21st, 2011
Iranian journalist Nazanin Khosravani was sentenced to six years in jail on 19 April after being
convicted of impinging on national security and conducting propaganda against the regime. She was arrested in November 2009 and had her computer and personal belongings confiscated. She was later released on a $600,000 bail last March.
Activists argue that her sentence is part of a general crackdown against journalists who were highly critical of the government in the 2009 presidential elections.
April 21st, 2011
The editor of the Kyiv Post, Brian Bonner, was
reinstated to his post on 19 April after journalists for
Ukraine’s leading English newspaper went on strike protesting his dismissal. Bonner was
sacked on 15 April after publishing an interview with the Agricultural Minister which touched on the sensitive topic of grain export quotas. The newspaper’s British owner, Mohammad Zahoor, had
pressured him to discard the interview.
April 19th, 2011
Azerbaijani officials detained three Swedish TV journalists while they were preparing to cover an opposition demonstration in Baku on
17 April. The journalists were subsequently
deported on 18 April. An official at the Interior Ministry commented that the three were deported as they lacked the proper accreditation. However, one of the journalists, My Rohwedder Street, contends that she and her colleagues had not concealed their profession when they applied for visas.
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April 16th, 2011
The
Syrian authorities have arrested an Algerian freelance journalist working for a French radio station. Khaled Sid Mohnad was
picked up on 9 April and is thought to be in a Damascus prison. His arrest
follows that of Syrian writer and former political prisoner Fayez Sara, who was arrested on 11 April after attending an opposition meeting. In total 11 journalists have been arrested.
April 8th, 2011
The Libyan government has decided to
deport 26 foreign journalists from the country. The journalists, who had all been invited by the government, were initially told that they would have to leave by Thursday; however their departure has now been postponed until 9 April.
Reports suggest that the names of the reporters were posted in the lobby of the hotel they were staying in. This deportation follows the expulsion of various other journalists from the country.
