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Judge Sinks Reservist's Bid to Stall Deployment
Seeded on Thu May 11, 2006 2:24 PM EDT (The Boston Herald)
A Norton school board member is being shipped back to Iraq despite waging a legal battle against the Army reserves that included five resignation letters and two lawsuits.
Book Banned in America While Troops Die For Freedom
Seeded on Thu May 11, 2006 2:19 PM EDT (newswithviews.com)
LAS VEGAS, NV -- Irwin Schiff is a well known author with over 500,000 books in print about the economy and the income tax. He is also now amongst the few who have had a book banned by the U.S. Government.
Burma: Three Face Trial Today For Pro-Democracy Poem, Five Others Released
Seeded on Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:16 AM EDT (rsf.org)
The authorities have freed five of the seven students from Pegu university (north of Rangoon) who were arrested on 29 March for publishing a pro-democracy poem, Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association noted today. They were released on 10 April.
Colombia: Bill Increasing Penalties for Insult and Calumny Offences Shelved
Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:28 PM EDT (ifex.org)
The Senate's First Commission has shelved the legislative bill that would have broadened the definition of insult and defamation offences committed by journalists and media outlet directors.
Iraq: Reporter's Murder Brings Total Number of Journalists Killed Since 2003 to 88
Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:24 PM EDT (rsf.org)
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the murder of Koussai Kahdban, an Iraqi journalist with local radio station Al-Bilad, who was shot by gunmen on 22 April in Baghdad.
China: Call for Ching Cheong's Release in the Absence of Proof
Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:20 PM EDT (rsf.org)
The Hong Kong-based China correspondent of the Singapore-based Straits Times newspaper, Ching Cheong faces a possible death sentence on a charge of spying although the Chinese authorities have produced no evidence against him.
Malaria Still Kills Needlessly In Africa, Effective Drugs Not Reaching Patients
Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:37 PM EDT (doctorswithoutborders.org)
larmingly few African patients with malaria are getting existing effective treatment that could cure them in a few days, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Gambia: Authorities Free The Independent's Manager & Editor, But Keep Reporter
Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:29 PM EDT (rsf.org)
The Independent's general manager, Madi Ceesay, and its editor, Musa Saidykhan, were released this afternoon on bail after being illegally detained for more than three weeks. They will have to report to the police every day. Meanwhile, Lamin M.
CBS Cameraman Freed After Being Held for a Year by US Military
Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:01 PM EDT (rsf.org)
Reporters Without Borders today hailed the release on 11 April of CBS cameraman Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein, who had been held by the US military for a year at Camp Bucca detention centre and Abu Ghraib prison.
Nepal: Three Human Rights Organizations Call for Targeted Sanctions
Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:50 PM EDT (Human Rights Watch)
Nepal's King Gyanendra and his senior officials and top military officers should be refused entry to other countries and have any personal assets outside of Nepal frozen, urged Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists.
East Timor: Torture and Mistreatment by Police
Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:44 PM EDT (Human Rights Watch)
The East Timorese government needs to urgently address the problem of police torture and ill-treatment of detainees before it becomes widespread, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
Venezuela: Newspaper Editor Sentenced to 18 Months for Publishing Paid Advertisement
Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:42 PM EDT (ifex.org)
On 11 April 2006, Mireya Zurita, current editor of "El Siglo" newspaper, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for authorizing, in 2003, the publication of a press release which suggested that Deputy Police Inspector Terry Rojas, head of investigations at the Institute for Scientif
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Journalist Arrested For Criticising Religious Extremism
Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:49 PM EDT (rsf.org)
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the detention of Rabah Al-Quwai, who writes for the Saudi daily newspapers Okaz and Chams and the Arabic-language websites Dar el-Nadwa and Gasad al-Thaqafa.
Nigeria: Newspaper Publisher Harrassed by Deputy State Governor
Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:36 PM EDT (rsf.org)
Reporters Without Borders today urged the judicial authorities in the Niger delta state of Bayelsa to refuse to be accomplices to the harassment of Alfred Egbegi, the publisher of the privately-owned weekly Izon Link, by Bayelsa's politically ambitious deputy governor, Peremobow
Call For Sami Al-Haj's Release From Guantanamo
Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:31 PM EDT (rsf.org)
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about detained Sudanese cameraman Sami Al-Haj of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera and reiterated its call for his release in the absence of specific charges after speaking to his London-based lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith.
Niger: Thousands of Children Treated for Malnutrition
Seeded on Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:58 PM EDT (doctorswithoutborders.org)
What is the situation at the beginning of April?
Colombia: President Verbally Attacks Media For Reporting Allegations
Seeded on Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:51 PM EDT (ifex.org)
Over the last two weeks, major news media have extensively reported on allegations of paramilitary infiltration of the Colombian executive branch's intelligence agency (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, or DAS), targeted killings of labor union leaders and academics, and
Peru: Television Journalist Assaulted
Seeded on Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:44 PM EDT (ifex.org)
On the evening of 12 April 2006, ATV HBO television journalist Máximo Silva Chávez was attacked by two strangers after he took a taxi home.
Burundi: Police Hold Journalists Hostage
Seeded on Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:37 PM EDT (rsf.org)
The action of the Bujumbura police in holding around 20 journalists hostage at the home of parliamentarian Mathias Basabose for more than seven hours yesterday was "absurd and astounding," Reporters Without Borders said today.
Kyrgyzstan: Human Rights Activist Seriously Injured After Organizing Protest Against Organized Crime
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:14 PM EDT (ifex.org)
The investigation by Kyrgyz authorities into the recent attack on human rights activist Edil Baisalov must be thorough, independent and capable of leading to prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today.
Parliamentarian Tries Strangling Community Journalist
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:03 PM EDT (rsf.org)
HONDURAS: Reporters Without Borders today called for Liberal Party representative Romualdo Bueso Melghem, the vice-president of the parliamentary commission for ethnic minorities, to be stripped of his parliamentary mandate for assaulting and trying to strangle community journal
Former Policeman Arrested for Murder of Jorge Aguirre
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:56 PM EDT (rsf.org)
Attorney-general Isaías Rodríguez announced yesterday that Boris Blanco Arcia, 33, a former Caracas police officer who was dismissed last October, has been arrested for the murder of El Mundo photographer Jorge Aguirre, who was gunned down in Caracas on 5 April.
Publisher, Two Other Newspaper Employees Arrested, Detained
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:44 AM EDT (ifex.org)
On 12 April 2006, Alfred Egbegi, publisher of the weekly newspaper "Izon Link", was arrested by the police in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa State capital in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.
Chad: Around the Clock Surgery in N'djamena's Main Hospital
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:39 AM EDT (doctorswithoutborders.org)
Since yesterday afternoon, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been treating heavily wounded civilians after widespread violence in Chad reached the capital city, N'Djamena.
Dozens Of Journalists Arrested, Beaten During Protests
Seeded on Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:20 PM EDT (ifex.org)
Scores of journalists have been arrested and beaten in the past week during nation-wide demonstrations against the autocratic rule of Nepal's King Gyanendra, prompting calls of concern by IFEX members.
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