The US military is to finally bring a court hearing against Associated Press (AP) photographer Bilal Hussein on December 9, 606 days after the Iraqi was first taken into custody, the agency has reported. The move would be the first legal step in initiating formal charges against Hussein, who was seized in Ramadi on April [...]

India has been chosen as the host country for the 62nd World Newspaper Congress, 16th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo in 2009, the World Association of Newspapers announced today. “India is probably the most exciting newspaper market in the world at the moment,” said Timothy Balding, CEO of the Paris-based WAN, which organises the [...]

An inquest report has established with great detail that the Indonesian army was responsible for the death of five British, Australian and New Zealander journalists in East Timor in 1975. The report clearly shows they were eliminated because they too much about Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, which was just getting under way. Shirley Shackleton, widow [...]

US Internet giant Yahoo has settled a Californian lawsuit brought by the families of journalist Shi Tao and pro-democracy activist and blogger Wang Xiaoning, who were convicted and imprisoned on information which Yahoo! gave the Chinese authorities. Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo Inc. Jerry Yang answers a question with Yahoo General Counsel Michael Callahan (L) before [...]

The latest jail terms handed down to journalists in Egypt are making the country being seen as one of the most repressive for media in the world. Ibrahim Eissa, an outspoken critic of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and editor of the independent daily Al-Dustour, is surrounded by photographers as he talks late Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007 [...]

Television channels ordered off the air after the airing of footage exposing The Narendra Modi government’s involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots have resumed broadcasting. Protestors burning an effigy of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Hyderabad after a TV sting exposed government involvement in the 2002 mass killings of Muslims. Television channels ordered off the [...]

A look at Israeli television channels and one can have a fair idea how far Israel lags behind in representing minorities. A regular TV viewer in Israel may never come across an Arab doctor advising on a flu virus, or an Arab lawyer giving tips on labour laws. Thanks to the almost no Arab presence [...]

An Iraqi correspondent of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has disappeared. Her driver’s body was found after she went missing Monday in Baghdad. Two RFE/RL correspondents have already been killed since the start of the year. The female correspondent worked for Radio Free Iraq, the Arabic language service of RFE/RL that broadcasts to [...]

Eritrea has replaced North Korea in last place in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world published Tuesday by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) for the sixth year running. Outside Europe — in which the top 14 countries are located — no region of the world has been spared [...]

A freelance journalist was shot dead near Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, less than 24 hours after a reporter for the Washington Post was killed in Baghdad. Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo, a 32-year-old freelance reporter, was killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen Tuesday near the city of Kirku, 180 km north of Baghdad. His [...]

Twenty members of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) have set up a Burma Action Group to support protesters and journalists in their struggle against the recent military crackdown in the country. Burmese monks lead a demonstration march through London during a global day of action for Burma October 6, 2007. The UN Security [...]

The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Delhi High Court order sentencing four employees of tabloid Mid Day to jail for publishing news reports about former chief justice YK Sabharwal. The apex court stayed the high court’s September 21 ruling sentencing two journalists, a cartoonist and the publisher of the tabloid to four months imprisonment each [...]

There is worldwide outrage at the apparently deliberate fatal shooting of Japanese cameraman Kenji Nagai by a Burmese soldier on Thursday. Video footage shown on Japan’s Fuji News Network has revealed that Nagai, who was filming near a group of demonstrators in Yangon, was pushed to the ground and shot at near point-blank range. Kenji [...]

Egypt’s prosecutor general has reversed a decision to send an outspoken tabloid newspaper editor who questioned President Hosni Mubarak’s health to the country’s emergency court of no appeal. A judiciary official said Friday that Al-Dustour editor Ibrahim Eissa will instead face a regular criminal court where appeals are possible on October 1. The official did [...]

The Delhi High Court’s sentencing of three journalists and the publisher of Mid Day to jail terms is being seeen as a severe blow to press freedom in the country. The order has also brought into focus what ought to constitute contempt of court. Editors of a number of newspapers and television channels in New Delhi [...]