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According to CASCFEN, the General Prosecutor's Office rejected the request of BakuAEs Press Club founders to exonerate Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of the opposition daily Yeni Musavat. A letter signed by [...]

According to CASCFEN, reporters without borders has called for the immediate release of independent journalist Ensafali Hedayat, employed by a number of reformist dailies, who was arrested at his home [...]

According to Ria-Novosti, the Union of Journalists has forwarded certified electoral blocs and candidate lists for the seats in the State Duma. They also made up a list of wishes [...]

According to oJordan Timeso, Journalists and women activists joined hands to prepare for a national media campaign advocating equality for women and emphasizing their role in formulating non-discriminatory legislation. The [...]

Editors from a clutch of major Czech- and Slovak-language media have publicly condemned a recent 1 million Slovak crown ($28,537) verdict against the Slovak weekly 'Domino forum' for defamation of [...]

The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), with 500,000 members worldwide, attended the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Intersessional meeting in Paris from 15-18 July to discuss a draft [...]

Azerbaijan's new Press Council mediated three hours of talks on 31 July between representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities and the leaders of four major opposition parties, zerkalo.az reported the following [...]

Serbian journalists this week launched a protest against what they say are attempts by the authorities to curb freedom of the press, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) [...]

Journalists will have more trouble acquiring information from Federation Council staffers under an order imposed by Petr Tkachenko, head of the upper chamber's apparatus, 'Gazeta' reported on 7 May. The [...]

On 8 May, a seven-minute film on protests in the countries of the former Soviet Union against violations of the rights of journalists is available at the website of the [...]

The editors in chief of 15 leading Serbian periodicals and electronic media outlets sent a letter to the government on 24 April calling for a meeting to discuss their profession's [...]

The 15 editors set forth their specific concerns to the government, including 'unheralded' new amendments to the Information Act, such as giving the state the right to establish its own [...]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on 23 April supported journalists' groups in Serbia that are protesting alleged 'irregularities' in the National Assembly appointments to the Broadcast Agency Council. The [...]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of Arab Journalists on 12 April called for the creation of a new media environment in Iraq that 'must reflect the [...]

Robert Menard, who is secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has written to Azerbaijan's President Heidar Aliev and Justice Minister Fikret Mamedov to express concern at the two fines imposed [...]

On 3 April, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) issued a report (http://www.ifj.org/publications/press/pr/030403ukraine.html) on the media environment in Ukraine. The authors report that the Ukrainian government's 'failure to initiate long-overdue [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on 31 March accused U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq of showing 'contempt' for journalists covering the war in Iraq. The RSF called on coalition authorities to [...]

Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADR) member Gurban Mamedov was released from a Baku prison on 5 February after serving a five-year sentence, Turan reported. Mamedov, together with two other ADR members, [...]

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on 6 February protested a Belarusian court decision that threatens the survival of an independent Russian-language weekly newspaper in Smarhon on the eve of [...]

Freelance journalist and human rights activist Olim Toshev was summoned to the office of the Kashkadarin Oblast prosecutor on 20 January and informed that he will be charged with abuse [...]

According to Baku Today, journalists decided to hold next march from the Azneft square to the Baki Soveti underground station passing by the Presidential Office in the middle of next [...]

The heads of all of Russia's major state-controlled and private media outlets as well as representatives of leading journalists' organizations on 20 November signed an appeal urging President Vladimir Putin [...]

Armenia's National Press Club is strongly opposed to including discussion of the amended draft media law on parliament's agenda prior to presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for the first five [...]

Armenia's National Press Club is strongly opposed to including discussion of the amended draft media law on parliament's agenda prior to presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for the first five [...]

Dozens of journalists picketed the parliament on 12 November in protest against infringements of the freedom of expression by the government, RFE/RL's Chisinau bureau reported. Journalists Union Chairman Valeriu Saharneanu [...]

The state Information Policy, Television, and Radio Broadcasting Committee issued a statement on 28 October accusing some journalists of 'pressuring Ukraine through publications on major foreign policy issues.' ('Center for [...]

Several residents of Pskov telephoned the local office of the FSB on 27 October with complaints against a local radio journalist who reportedly advocated independence for Chechnya, regions.ru reported, citing [...]

On 9 September, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), a regional organization of the International Federation of Journalists with 200,000 members in 29 countries, warned governments about a 'dangerous cocktail [...]

In a statement released on 2 September, the journalists' union Yeni Nesil criticized President Heidar Aliev's 28 August decree on preventing the publication in the media of information containing state [...]

Politicians representing the opposition National Liberal Party (PNL), Democratic Party, and Greater Romania Party (PRM), as well as journalists and prominent human rights activists on 13 May harshly criticized what [...]

On 8 May, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which represents 500,000 journalists, called for the Polish authorities to withdraw actions against the majority owners of a leading daily [...]

Journalists in Saratov have appealed to the oblast's legislature demanding that legislators stop financing the oblast's press ministry, RFE/RL's Saratov correspondent reported on 6 November. According to the correspondent, the [...]

The Union of Russian Journalists (UJR) is fighting an effort by the Ministry of State Property to take over its building in central Moscow and give it to a state-owned [...]

Interfax-Eurasia reported on 6 September that the leadership of the Union of Journalists of Tatarstan and the editors of nine major papers and journals there have sent a letter to [...]

Retired FSB Lieutenant General Sergei Dyakov said in an interview published in 'Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie,' No. 14, that journalists who learn secret information in the course of their professional activities [...]

The National Council for Radio and Television, in a statement released on 16 January, rejected the demand of a group of Bulgarian radio journalists that it resign because it has [...]

The International Federation of Journalists in Brussels requested on 26 January that Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica launch a public enquiry into the NATO bombing of the Serbian State Television premises [...]

The Glasnost Defense Foundation appealed to journalists on 25 May to join its action 'The Voice of Glasnost,' by publishing at least one article on the defense of journalists' rights [...]

Journalists from across the Russian Federation convened in Moscow on 6 March for a conference entitled 'Freedom of Speech in Russia- -2000,' ITAR-TASS reported. Organized by the Journalists' Union of [...]

According to 'Yemen Times', Ashoura newspaper board of directors is still refusing to pay its arrears to the former Editor-in-Chief Noman Qaeid who has been discharged from his post before [...]

U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesman James Foley expressed concern on 3 February at Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembskii's statement that detained RFE/RL journalist Sergei Babitskii was exchanged earlier that day [...]