Indonesian editor sentenced for libel; reporters cleared
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The editor of a leading Indonesian magazine was sentenced to jail yesterday in a high profile libel case that rights groups say represents a setback for press freedoms and the country&#39;s emerging democracy.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent   novelist on Thursday for insulting the Turkish identity in a   case regarded as a fresh test of freedom of expression in the   European Union candidate nation.
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The editor of leading Indonesian magazine Tempo was sentenced to a year&#39;s jail yesterday in a high-profile libel case that rights groups say represents a setback for press freedom and the country&#39;s emerging democracy.
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A Yemeni court has fined the editor of the Yemen Observer weekly for reprinting offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, saying they constituted a crime but not apostasy.
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KABUL: An Afghan man was found guilty on Saturday of killing four journalists in 2001, including two from Reuters, and sentenced to death.
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A court convicted a businessman of ordering the 2001 murder of a journalist who denounced fraud at a religious radio station, but acquitted a priest of the killing.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times was released on Saturday, ending a controversial prison term that highlighted the country's tough media controls.
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JAKARTA - East Timor&#39;s last Indonesian governor, the only person to be jailed for crimes against humanity in the former territory, has been cleared on appeal.
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JAKARTA: An Indonesian court was scheduled to deliver its verdict on a libel suit against three journalists of a weekly magazine that rights groups say highlights dangers to the country&#39;s free press.
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Handing down a jail sentence for a libel case has serious implications for press freedom in Indonesia, said Natalie Hill, deputy Asia director at Amnesty International, commenting on the jail sentence imposed on the chief editor of leading news magazine
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Indonesia&#39;s supreme court has overturned the conviction of the only man so far imprisoned for the violence surrounding East Timor&#39;s vote for independence five years ago.
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A court in Mali convicted five journalists and a teacher on Tuesday for insulting President Amadou Toumani Toure over a high school essay assignment on the sexual indiscretions of an imaginary head of state.
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Turkish author Ipek Calislar is acquitted of insulting modern Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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A Chinese court on Friday upheld a  guilty verdict against a Hong Kong-based Singapore newspaper  reporter who was sentenced to prison for five years for  espionage, state media and his family said.
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IN a significant strike against press freedom, an Indonesian court yesterday sentenced the chief editor of Indonesia&#39;s leading news magazine, Tempo, to a one-year jail term on a charge of criminal defamation.
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A court on Thursday sentenced Tempo magazine editor Bambang Harymurti to one year in prison for defamation and &quot;inciting unrest&quot; in a case watched by press freedom advocates here and abroad.
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In a low-key end to a groundbreaking case that extended the reach of Australia's libel laws to the world, Dow Jones &amp; Co. has settled a defamation lawsuit launched against it by an Australian mining magnate.