Junta orders journalists, actors to refrain from protesting, speaking out

(SEAPA/IFEX) - As thousands of ordinary citizens join some 3,000 monks and nuns in the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay on their seventh day of peaceful marches on 24 September 2007, the junta is warning the press from joining the protests, worried that journalists, too, may be emboldened enough by the deeply moving spectacle to exercise their right to free expression in its most basic form

Journalists manhandled by presidential bodyguards

(CEMESP/IFEX) - On 21 September 2007, bodyguards of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, from the Special Security Service (SSS), brutalized and intimidated several local journalists and correspondents of international news organizations.

IFJ demands safety guarantees for journalists after media "hit list" leaked from government

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 21 September 2007 IFJ media release:

ARTICLE 19 welcomes release of scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, calls for release of remaining Iranian-US citizen in detention

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release:

Cape Town court dismisses bank's application to prevent satirical journal from publishing information relating to alleged tax fraud scheme

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release:

Police tap journalist's telephone following report on tax fraud

(AJI/IFEX) - AJI condemns the actions of the Indonesian police and the telecommunications company P.T. Telkom in tapping the cellular telephone account of "TEMPO" journalist Metta Dharmasaputra, and circulating print-out copies of text messages and conversations recorded without the journalist's consent.

Censorship and political interference rife at state broadcaster

(MISA/IFEX) - The chief executive officer of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH), Henry Muradzikwa, has admitted that political interference and censorship of news reports is the order of the day at the state-controlled national broadcaster.

Political affairs reporter banned from Parliament

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders calls on the secretary of the Maldives parliament, the People's Majlis, to rescind a ban on reporter Lushan Saeed of the daily "Miadhu" from entering the parliament building until the end of the year. Saeed, who specialises in parliamentary affairs, was notified of the ban in a letter from the parliament's secretariat on 17 September 2007.

Journalists get four-month jail terms for contempt of court

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at a New Delhi court decision on 21 September 2007 to sentence the publisher of the "Mid-Day" newspaper and three of his employees - two editors and a cartoonist - to four months in prison for contempt of court because they accused a former senior judge of issuing a ruling that benefited his son.

RFI and RSF correspondent held incommunicado

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Moussa Kaka, director of privately-owned Radio Saraouniya station and Niger correspondent of Radio France Internationale and Reporters Without Borders, who was arrested on 20 September 2007 and who is being held at police headquarters in Niamey.

Blogger suspended from government job for criticising military

(RSF/IFEX) - The authorities announced the suspension of a finance ministry official on 14 September 2007 for criticising the military government in blog posts. The announcement came eight days after the military proclaimed a state of emergency to prevent the return from exile of former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, who is accused of inciting the military government's overthrow.

Radio journalist assaulted by skinheads following broadcasts on social diversity

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 16 September 2007, a group of women assaulted journalist Cora Cadena, the hostess of the programme "Transgresor Jatarishun" on Radio Luna, a station based in Quito, capital city of Ecuador.

Police re-arrest TV manager Munir Mengal after he is cleared by Baluchistan High Court

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders voiced indignation at the authorities' hounding of Munir Mengal, one of the managers of Baloch Voice television, who was released by the Baluchistan High Court on 12 September 2007. The court declared that he was guilty of no crime, but he was nonetheless rearrested by police.

Police officer threatens journalist, confiscates his recording equipment

(FMM/IFEX) - The following is an FMM press release:

Internet journalist released after five days in detention

(WiPC/IFEX) - The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN welcomes the release of Mohamed Hussein Jimale, correspondent for the news website Puntlandpost.com ( http://www.puntlandpost.com ) on 17 September 2007 following five days of detention. It would like to share the following statement issued by Somali-Speaking PEN:

Possible increase in import duties on newspaper supplies threatens press freedom, says IAPA

(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is a 19 September 2007 IAPA press release:

CAPSULE REPORT: Reporting in a climate of fear in Cali and Valle del Cauca

(FLIP/IFEX) - The following is an abbreviated version of a 14 September 2007 FLIP report:

Charges made public against two journalists more than a month after their arrest

(RSF/IFEX) - The Iranian justice system has just made public charges against journalists Ako Kurdnasab and Soheil Assefi, in two unconnected cases, more than one month after the two were arrested.

Students detained by police, one allegedly beaten, on suspicion of writing pro-Tibet graffiti

(HRW/IFEX) - The following is a Human Rights Watch press release:

Protesting peasants briefly detain journalist, seize her camera

(CEPET/IFEX) - The following is a statement from CEPET, an interim member of IFEX: