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Peruvian mayor attacks radio broadcaster during live transmission

A district mayor in Peru allegedly burst into a radio presenter’s booth during a live broadcast on Thursday, physically attacking the presenter and damaging his equipment, the Lima-based media freedom monitor, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), reported on Friday. The mayor, Ángel Adrián Palomino Ramos of the Ica region’s Pachacutec district, was apparently annoyed by ‘Radio La […]

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Cyprus media figure shot dead

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a regional organisation of editors, media executives, owners of media and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe, and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the murder of Andis Hadjicostis, CEO of the family-controlled Dias media group and Sigma TV in Nicosia, […]

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Spanish journalists appeal conviction for ‘revealing secrets’

Two Spanish journalists sentenced on 23 December 2009 to suspended jail terms of one year and nine months each for “revealing secrets” have appealed their criminal convictions at a Madrid penal court, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Wednesday. Daniel Anido, director of ‘Ser’ radio broadcaster, and Rodolfo Irago, the station’s news director, received the suspended sentences […]

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Editor of Palestinian news agency threatened with expulsion from Israel

Israeli authorities are threatening to expel Jared Malsin, the American editor of the English section of the Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency, from the country. According to official sources at Ma’an News Agency, Malsin was detained on Tuesday afternoon at Ben Gurion International Airport, as he and his girlfriend were returning from a holiday in the […]

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