Reporters sans frontières - China"Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-month ban slapped on financial weekly China Business Post, accused of having broken the law in an article on the Agricultural Bank of China.
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Following negotiations, the newspaper was able
to appear as usual on 11 September, but the 18 September issue was
banned. This sanction followed complaints from leading officials in
Hunan, southern China and from the Agricultural bank of China. The
weekly in July accused the Changde, Hunan office of the public bank of
poor management of assets."
IFEX ::(TJA/IFEX) - The TJA condemns the barbaric killing of "Matichon" newspaper reporter Jaruek Rangcharoen, 46, in Suphanburi province on 27 September 2008. The organisation also condemns those behind the murder.
Jaruek was shot several times in the head while he was buying food at a market on the way to his home at No. 1491 Moo 5, in the Don Chedi Subdistrict of Don Chedi District. The shooting is believed to be linked to his reporting on corruption within the local administrative organization.
IFEX ::"(MFWA/IFEX) - On 20 September 2008, Sidiki Doumba, journalist with "Les Echos", a Bamako-based independent newspaper was arrested and detained overnight at a police station in Kita, a town 15 kilometres from the capital."
