The Tajik Interior Ministry has issued an issued an arrest warrant for Dodojon Atoullo, a prominent opposition journalist, on charges of insulting the Tajik president and "calling for the overthrow of the constitutional system." Atoullo is the editor of the online opposition newspaper "Charoh-i Ruz," the founder of an organization of Tajiks in Russia, Vatandor, and [...]

... and tossed from a truck for posting pictures of the Dalai Lama. The journalist trying to report it disappears. Can we really afford to not be outraged by this? Please let friends and loved ones know ... news and reading news for the TV. Tsuiltrim further said that it is not clear where the Tibetan journalist is detained. "I heard that the officials who arrested him were not local but from the Kardze ...

... , the 2008 Bulgarian Chernorizetz Hrabur "Young Journalist" prize, was received by Kalin Rumenov at an official ceremony in ... speech.The IFJ says the award of this year's Chernorizetz Hrabur Young Journalist of the Year prize to Kalin Rumenov, a ... prompted a protest from other journalists and civil society groups because the journalist is renowned for articles in his newspaper attacking the country's ...

... the prestigious Samuel L. Chavkin Award for investigative journalism.Journalist Diana Washington Valdez has been awarded the 2008 Chavkin Award for ... this award named after Samuel L. Chavkin, a great journalist who stood up to the corrupt leaders of his time," said Ms. Washington Valdez. ... his memory."Ms. Washington Valdez is an award-winning journalist who works for the El Paso Times newspaper in El ...

... Without Borders today called for the case to be dropped against journalist Yosef Azizi Banitruf, sentenced to five years in ... foreign officials". He is free while awaiting an appeal.The freelance journalist was arrested on 25 April 2005. His home was ... having dealings with foreigners" and for "publicity against the regime".In yet another case, a journalist working for the official news agency ISNA, ...

... met Pak Samad in the late 1960s. I was a cadet journalist with the Straits Times and he was already a formidable name in politics and in newspaper circles. ... otherwise.Pak Samad was many things to many people. He was a nationalist, a journalist par excellence, a born leader, an intellectual giant ... ) Puan Hamidah Hassan, herself a political activist and journalist in her younger days.Pak Samad gave me ...