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BRITAIN: Decisions of the 'privacy law judge'Date:10/11/2008 The editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, has launched a scathing attack on the judgements of Mr Justice Eady, accusing him of creating a privacy law by the backdoor...
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Monday, 10 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRITAIN: Lashing out at the lawDate:11/11/2008 Paul Dacre does not often break cover in person, but when he does the audience knows to buckle their seat belts...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRITAIN: Lashing out at the law (Editorial)Date:11/11/2008 Paul Dacre does not often break cover in person, but when he does the audience knows to buckle their seat belts...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRITAIN: Lashing out at the law (Editorial)Date:11/11/2008 Paul Dacre does not often break cover in person, but when he does the audience knows to buckle their seat belts...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRITAIN: Privacy law and the freedom of expressionDate:11/11/2008 Sir, Paul Dacre's isolation of Mr Justice Eady for public attack (Judge has created privacy law by back door, says Mail editor, Times Online, Nov 10) cannot stand unanswered, not least because, by convention, the judge is unable to respond publicly to such criticism...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRITAIN: The Threat To Our PressDate:11/11/2008 We are facing very serious threats to our press freedoms...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Raoul Moat: Prime minister criticises public sympathyDate:14/07/2010 …
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Amazon opts out of Phorm systemDate:16/04/2009 Amazon has opted out of Phorms controversial targeted-advertising technology, delivering a blow to the UK-listed company, which is already the subject of a European Commission legal action against the UK government...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Big names to speak at Press Gazette media law conferenceDate:15/01/2009 Justice secretary Jack Straw, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Sally Murrer lawyer Louis Charalambous are among the speakers at Press Gazettes Media Law Conference next month...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Call for media 'crisis' debates Date:15/01/2009 Calls have been made for debates in both the Welsh assembly and in the House of Commons on the crisis of the lack of media in Wales ...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Call for media 'crisis' debates Date:15/01/2009 Calls have been made for debates in both the Welsh assembly and in the House of Commons on the crisis of the lack of media in Wales ...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Faith, Fanaticism, and Freedom of Speech Date:27/01/2009 TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS month an Islamic organization in Great Britain staged a 1, 000-strong rally of rage: with BBC cameras rolling, Muslim protestors burned copies of The Satanic Verses, the 1988 work by British novelist Salman Rushdie criticizing Mohammed...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Far-right Dutch lawmaker sent home from UKDate:13/02/2009 Britain barred a far-right Dutch lawmaker from entering the country Thursday because of his anti-Islamic views, touching off a wide-ranging debate in the U...
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Friday, 13 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Geert Wilders ban: Your commentsDate:13/02/2009 A Dutch MP who described the Koran as a fascist book has been banned by the Home Office from entering the UK amid fears his presence would endanger public security...
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Friday, 13 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Google Street View cleared of breaking Data Protection ActDate:27/04/2009 Google Street View, the controversial website that shows 360-degree street views of many of Britains cities does not breach the Data Protection Act, the information commissioner ruled today...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:03/04/2009 A couple of years ago, I republished a 20-year-old Guardian article that shed some light on activities that blogger Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, was involved in at the time...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: I’m standing up for free speech says tribunal ministerDate:16/01/2009 A CHURCH minister from East Kilbride says he is 'standing up for free speech' as he prepares for a legal battle with an Asian radio station...
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Friday, 16 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Internet pirates beware: this man is out to stop youDate:27/04/2009 For a man engaged in the political equivalent of herding cats, David Lammy seems in a remarkably good mood...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Judge upholds journalist Suzanne Breen's right to withhold IRA detailsDate:19/06/2009 Belfast journalist today won the right to withhold material relating to the Real IRA from the state, in a landmark ruling on press freedom...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Libel, privacy, the ‘chilling effect’ and NGOsDate:04/06/2009 In its last evidence session for its inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel, the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee today heard from not-for-profit campaign organisation Global Witness’ co-founder Charmian Gooch and Mark Stephens, a lawyer from Finers Stephens Innocent, who has represented non-profit organisations previously...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Little change for media in family courtsDate:20/04/2009 It all seemed so promising when Jack Straw announced in December that the government was going to open up the family courts to greater media - and therefore public - scrutiny...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Media law conference: Max Mosley judge 'did the press a favour'Date:12/02/2009 Mr Justice Eady did the press a favour in the Max Mosley case, a leading litigation lawyer told the Press Gazette media conference this morning...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Millions will have to wait a decade for superfast internet accessDate:16/06/2009 Millions of homes are expected to be denied superfast internet access for at least a decade because of a failure to reach agreement across the communications industry over who should pay for the upgrade...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Move to control costs in defamation casesDate:25/02/2009 Proposals to control costs in defamation cases were unveiled by the Government today...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Nominations are still open for Index on Censorship’s 2009 T R Fyvel Book AwardDate:28/01/2009 Nominations are open for the 2009 T R Fyvel Book Award...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: NUJ warns against relaxing rules on mergers of local media groupsDate:03/04/2009 National Union of Journalists says regional press will go into spiral of decline if government eases ownership restrictions The National Union of Journalists has warned that the UKs regional press will go into a spiral of decline if the government scraps rules restricting mergers among the large newspaper groups...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Over 200 Community Radio Stations At Risk of Closure Due to Government InactionDate:18/08/2009 Community radio stations across the United Kingdom are at risk of closure due to highly restrictive funding arrangements and the failure of government to fully implement a public funding mechanism that was established in law in 2003...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Plans to cut defamation costs Date:25/02/2009 The cost of legal fees in defamation cases should be controlled, the government has announced...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Privacy groups oppose advert targetingDate:03/04/2009 Privacy groups have strongly opposed online advert-targeting technology, but nearly half of UK consumers say they are not bothered by it, a survey has revealed...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Publish and be named: Police blogger NightJack loses anonymityDate:17/06/2009 High court says detective constable had 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' in landmark ruling for bloggers Blogging is a public activity with no right to anonymity, the high court ruled today in a decision expected to have far-reaching repercussions for thousands of bloggers who keep their identities secret...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Supreme Court Reaffirms Open Justice Principle and Orders Identification of Terror SuspectsDate:28/01/2010 UK: Supreme Court Reaffirms Open Justice Principle and Orders Identification of Terror Suspects ARTICLE 19 welcomes today’s unanimous decision of the Supreme Court ordering the identification of five persons who had their assets frozen by the Treasury for suspicion of supporting terrorist activities...
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Thursday, 28 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Surreal moments as Breen says she faces death if she reveals her sourcesDate:12/06/2009 There were a couple of surreal moments during today's court case in which the journalist Suzanne Breen was fighting off a demand by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that she reveal her confidential sources...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: The Times convicted of contempt of court for report on jury's disagreementDate:13/05/2009 The Times and a jury foreman who spoke to the paper about how he disagreed with the verdict reached by jurors in a manslaughter case have been found guilty of contempt of court today...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 'The security services want to force journalists like Northern Ireland editor Suzanne Breen to gather intelligence for the state Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 'The security services want to force journalists like Northern Ireland editor Suzanne Breen to gather intelligence for the state Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 'The security services want to force journalists like Northern Ireland editor Suzanne Breen to gather intelligence for the state Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: United Kingdom to decriminalise defamation Date:13/07/2009 On Friday, 10 July 2009, the government of the United Kingdom formally committed to decriminalising defamation by doing away with the common law offences of sedition, seditious libel and defamatory libel...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
United Kingdom: ARTICLE 19 Welcomes Judgment on Confidentiality of Journalistic SourcesDate:25/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 welcomes the landmark ruling of the High Court in Belfast in the case of investigative journalist, Suzanne Breen, which decided that a court order forcing her to hand over her notes would have threatened her life and the lives of her family, and compromised the protection of her sources...
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Thursday, 25 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
United Kingdom: Government Begins Decriminalisation of Defamation, Concerns Remain for Northern IrelandDate:16/10/2009 ARTICLE 19, English PEN and Index on Censorship welcome the UK government’s drive to decriminalise defamation...
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Friday, 16 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UNITED KINGDOM: Times's verdict on Sir Roy Meadow evidence was 'legitimate', says PCCDate:12/01/2009 The Press Complaints Commission today rejected a complaint from Professor Sir Roy Meadow about a 2005 article in the Times that said his evidence had led to the jailing of innocent people...
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Monday, 12 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UNITED KINGDOM: Times's verdict on Sir Roy Meadow evidence was 'legitimate', says PCCDate:12/01/2009 The Press Complaints Commission today rejected a complaint from Professor Sir Roy Meadow about a 2005 article in the Times that said his evidence had led to the jailing of innocent people...
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Monday, 12 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC settles libel battle with IVF doctorDate:09/06/2009 The BBC confirmed yesterday that it has agreed to settle its costly libel battle with the IVF specialist Mohamed Taranissi over a Panorama programme...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC staff 'arrested and tortured in Libya by Gaddafi forces'Date:09/03/2011 …
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC staff 'arrested and tortured in Libya by Gaddafi forces'Date:09/03/2011 Journalists working for the BBC in Libya have been arrested, tortured and subjected to a mock execution by security forces of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime...
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC strike called offDate:03/04/2009 A 24-hour strike by BBC journalists over job cuts that was scheduled to begin at midnight has been called off...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Britain's 'draconian' libel laws to be reformedDate:12/07/2010 A consultation will take place over the summer before legislation is put before Parliament early in the New Year...
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Monday, 12 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British author faces prison sentence in SingaporeDate:04/11/2010 The British author Alan Shadrake is today facing a possible prison sentence after a court in Singapore convicted him of challenging the integrity of the city state's judiciary in a book criticising its use of the death penalty...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British minister 'dismayed' by author's Singapore jail termDate:19/11/2010 A minister has said he is dismayed by the prison sentence handed to a British author convicted by a Singapore court of insulting the city-state's judiciary...
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Friday, 19 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British students demonstrate for free speech, others protest against inciting racism Date:10/02/2010 Students at Durham University in England held a demonstration on 9 February after the British National Union of Students intervened with the students’ plan to invite two representatives of the British National Party (BNP), Chris Beverly and Andrew Brons, to speak at a debate...
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Broadcasting Bill amendedDate:24/02/2009 The contentious Broadcasting Amendment Bill has been amended after President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to sign it into law, the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications said on Friday...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Koran-protest pastor Terry Jones may be banned from UKDate:12/12/2010 Home Secretary Theresa May has said she will be actively looking at whether a controversial US pastor should be banned from entering the UK...
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Sunday, 12 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK bans Muslim group over war march Date:14/01/2010 Britain has decided to outlaw a Muslim group that planned but dropped an anti-war march through a town symbolizing Britain's commitment to its war dead, a move slammed by the group as a failure to tolerate freedom of expression...
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Thursday, 14 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UKIP chief Nigel Farage calls for burka ban Date:19/01/2010 The burka and other face-covering veils worn by Muslim women should be banned, the UK Independence Party says...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vince Cable weakened by Murdoch rowDate:22/12/2010 Business Secretary Vince Cable told the Daily Telegraph's undercover reporters that he could use the nuclear option by leaving government - and bringing the coalition down, if pushed too far by the Conservatives...
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDIA: ‘Freedom of expression should be used with great responsibility’ Date:03/03/2009 Registrar of Manipal University G...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: A Major Indian Artist Offends Hindus, and Galleries Turn FearfuDate:26/08/2009 In the heady celebration of the boom in India's contemporary art market in recent years, an iconic artist has been conspicuous by his absence...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDIA: Bloggers unite against SC verdictDate:25/02/2009 Outraged bloggers vented their ire in cyberworld against the Supreme Court's take that they may face libel, even prosecution, for airing their views online...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: Cameras and terrorDate:15/01/2009 In the wake of 26/11, television channels have come under attack for their coverage...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: Gay Pride (in the name of love)Date:06/07/2009 ' Rituparno Ghosh director: I’m a bit surprised at this sudden awakening...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: India's ruling against 'Sodomy' laws is first step to equalityDate:06/07/2009 'The historic decision by the high court in Delhi on Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality, has been welcomed by Amnesty International...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: Lighting upDate:26/01/2009 Flips in the air, somersaults, and lands straight in his mouth...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDIA: Of blogs, bloggers and freedom of expressionDate:26/02/2009 There is an ongoing discussion thread with the subject title as Disturbing News on the Bangalore bloggers' mailing list, the Blogaloreans...
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Thursday, 26 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: Opposition party bans book by dissident memberDate:24/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that a new book that pays tribute to Pakistan’s founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and criticises Vallabhbhai Patel, a politician widely regarded as the architect of modern India, has been banned in the western state of Gujarat, which is governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s main opposition party...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDIA: Ravindra Kumar and Anand Sinha, arrested ‘hurting the religious feelings’ of Muslims Date:18/02/2009 Last week in Kolkata, India, police arrested the editor and publisher of the city's most prestigious English-language daily for hurting the religious feelings of Muslims...
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India: Shocking police intimidation of journalists Date:16/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is disturbed by reports that two journalists based in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, have been threatened with arrest for their reporting on what is believed to be a recent case of murder...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDIA: State to file defamation suit against former Chief Minister Date:30/09/2008 The BJP government in Karnataka has announced that it will file a defamation suit against former Chief Minister H...
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDIA: Use freedom of press judiciously - RayDate:21/10/2008 Media accountability is based on the concept that mass media like any other organ of an organised society has to be accountable in public interest and public good, and the media is expected to conduct themselves in a manner in which they will contribute to public good and that there be transparency in the way they function, said Justice G N Ray, chairman of the Press Council of India...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Regulate media content but don''t muzzle the press: BhushanDate:15/12/2010 New Delhi: Amid continuing debate over where to draw the line on freedom of expression when it comes to national security, a top Supreme Court advocate today said there was need to regulate media content but cautioned against pre-censorship and the muzzling of the press...
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
India leads calls for action to stop Koran burningDate:09/09/2010 India led calls on Thursday for the United States to intervene to halt a small church's plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the September 11 attacks and urged a media blackout to calm tensions...
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Thursday, 9 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mumbai university book ban sparks free speech fearsDate:20/10/2010 MUMBAI ; Writers, filmmakers and social commentators have expressed fears about freedom of speech in India after hardline Hindu activists forced an award-winning book to be taken off a university syllabus...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Cry freedom ... of expression: SA media under attackDate:18/08/2010 A month after South Africa scored a victory over pessimists by staging a successful World Cup, the ruling African National Congress risks squandering the tournament's legacy by trying to muzzle the media and step up state secrecy...
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gordimer: free expression threatened in S.AfricaDate:25/08/2010 Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer is leading South African writers in speaking out against proposals she fears will muzzle freedom of speech in her homeland...
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Africa: Freeze on pardons ‘a victory’Date:30/04/2009 An interim North Gauteng High Court order freezing the granting of presidential pardons for politically motivated apartheid-era crimes was yesterday welcomed as a massive victory for freedom of expression...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Africa: Media groups relieved as Motlanthe rejects Publications BillDate:03/02/2009 President Kgalema Motlanthe last week refused to sign the Films and Publications Amendment Bill, questioning its constitutionality and returning it 'untouched to Parliament...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SOUTH AFRICA: President Motlanthe’s right to privacy versus freedom of expressionDate:28/01/2009 Freedom of expression as safeguarded in various constitutional and international law instruments has been developed and expanded by the case-law and the doctrine of western countries and by the struggles of journalists in a dynamic and progressive manner in line with the liberal trends and ideas of democracy that have emerged during the years following the Second World War...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SOUTH AFRICA: Sanef says employees are being muzzledDate:14/11/2008 The South African National Editors' Forum is concerned by a growing tendency among institutions to curb the freedom of expression of their employees...
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Friday, 14 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Africa: State broadcaster accuses newspaper of theft following broadcast of documentaryDate:05/06/2009 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has laid a charge of stolen property after the Mail and Guardian Online posted on the web an episode of the current affairs programme Special Assignment, a documentary report on political satire...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Africa: The Presidency introduces a new web-based media databaseDate:16/04/2009 In an effort to better communicate with the media, The Presidency has developed a new Web Based Media Database which will allow journalists to personally update contact details...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SOUTH AFRICA: UKZN's committment to academic freedom slatedDate:11/11/2008 The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXi) has lashed out at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, questioning its commitment to academic freedom after disciplinary action against two academics...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SOUTH AFRICA: UKZN's committment to academic freedom slatedDate:11/11/2008 The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXi) has lashed out at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, questioning its commitment to academic freedom after disciplinary action against two academics...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SA's 'flawed' legislation, proposals threaten human rights - MMA Date:13/12/2010 South Africa's 'fragile' freedom of expression, free flow of information, and media liberties and independence - some of the cornerstones of any society's human rights - were further shaken this year by a series of what critics call 'flawed' and 'authoritarian' legislation and proposals...
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Monday, 13 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Separating Free Speech From Hate in South AfricaDate:30/04/2011 It seemed like a throwback to the days when a white minority ruled South Africa...
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Saturday, 30 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Africa / SABC denies manipulating news Date:19/03/2009 The SABC on 11 March 2008, denied allegations that its group head of news, Snuki Zikalala, manipulated content for political purposes...
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Thursday, 19 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Africa journalists fight proposed media lawsDate:08/08/2010 JOHANNESBURG ; South African journalists launched a campaign Sunday to fight what they say is an attempt to curtail media freedoms in a nation known for one of Africa's freest and most open constitutions...
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Sunday, 8 August 2010Last Modified:
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South African journalists fear limits to press freedomDate:03/09/2010 South African journalists are finding themselves increasingly at odds with their own government over two proposals that have the potential to limit press freedom...
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Friday, 3 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France: European Court: Israel boycotts are unlawful discrimination Date:20/07/2009 Israel finally won one last week in an international human rights court...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France: Fashion on trial: France debates whether women can wear niqabsDate:07/07/2009 'In the bustling farmers' market of this northern Paris suburb, the fault lines of French Islam intersect...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France: Government pushes through “spruced-up” version of draconian Internet piracy billDate:21/09/2009 The repressive mentality that imbues France’s anti-piracy bill, even its new version, could jeopardise access to information when alternative ways exist to protect literary and artistic creation, Reporters Without Borders said today...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: No more 'Memory Laws'Date:26/11/2008 ARTICLE 19 welcomes the recommendation of an official report on 'memory laws' that no new laws on 'historical truth' and memory should be adopted...
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: Sarkozy proposals on press raise concerns over media independenceDate:16/10/2008 The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists, said today it is worried about some proposals made by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he launched a national discussion on print media...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: Two regional newspapers raided Date:03/10/2008 Reporters Without Borders has expressed 'exasperation' at raids carried out by police and judicial officials on two daily newspapers in the French city of Poitiers, in relation to the alleged violation of confidentiality of a judicial investigation into a murder case...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: What is the West moving away from? Date:09/03/2009 The Zaman dailys Paris correspondent Ali Ihsan Aydin recently reported an interesting piece of news from Paris: Aymeric Chauprade, an academic, was fired because his interpretation of the Sept...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France approves broadside to digital piratesDate:23/10/2009 France will send out the first warnings to digital pirates early next year after passing tough legislation allowing for Internet access to be cut for those who illegally download movies and music, a minister said...
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Friday, 23 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France’s 92A equivalent declared unconstitutionalDate:11/06/2009 The proposed French law to deter online copyright infringers, known by the acronym Hadopi and couched in similar terms to New Zealand’s failed section 92A of the Copyright Act, has been struck down by France’s Constitutional Council...
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Thursday, 11 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
French Journalist facing five year imprisonmentDate:14/06/2010 A French journalist Augustin Scalbert, who works for the news website Rue89...
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Monday, 14 June 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in publicDate:14/07/2010 France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public...
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
'French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in publicDate:13/07/2010 France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public...
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy accused of using security service to spy on journalistsDate:04/11/2010 President Nicolas Sarkozy personally supervises a team of security agents which spies on troublesome French journalists, it was claimed yesterday...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy accused of violating press freedom in Bettencourt leak probeDate:14/09/2010 French daily newspaper Le Monde has accused the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy of breeching press freedom in a leak investigation...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy Draws Ire Over Media Spying ClaimsDate:11/11/2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly ordered France's domestic intelligence agency to spy on journalists who annoyed him...
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Thursday, 11 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy’s Web Piracy Law Passed; Raises European Ire Date:14/05/2009 France passed one of the world’s harshest laws against Internet piracy, giving the government the right to disconnect users who illegally download music and film...
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Thursday, 14 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Women in face veils detained as France enforces banDate:12/04/2011 At least two women have been briefly detained in France while wearing Islamic veils, after a law banning the garment in public came into force...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Niger: Ailing editor taken to remote prison in NigerDate:03/09/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the health of imprisoned editor Abdoulaye Tiémogo after his transfer from a hospital in Niger's capital, Niamey, to a prison in a remote town on Monday...
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Thursday, 3 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Niger: In latest judicial harassment of broadcasting group, director-general charged with “false news”Date:03/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Abibou Garba, the director-general of the Dounia radio and TV group, on 1 April in connection with a debate broadcast by Dounia TV in which an NGO activist criticised French President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent visit to Niamey...
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Niger: In Niger, two journalists detained ahead of referendumDate:04/08/2009 Two Nigerien editors whose weekly newspapers reported on corruption charges involving the national human rights commission have been in police custody since Saturday, according to local journalists and news reports...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
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NIGER: Journalist Moussa Kaka released after more than one year in prisonDate:07/10/2008 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the provisional release of Moussa Kaka by authorities in Niger after the journalist spent more than a year in detention on charges that he was linked to rebels in the northern part of the country...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008Last Modified:
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Niger: Live discussions on privately-owned media bannedDate:16/06/2009 On 8 June 2009, Niger's media regulatory body, the High Communication Council (CSC), banned all live discussions on the prevailing political situation in the country by privately-owned electronic media outlets...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
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Niger: Newspaper publisher loses appealDate:29/04/2009 The Niamey Court of Appeal in Niger upheld the three-month sentence handed to Boussada Ben Ali, publisher of LAction weekly newspaper, by a Magistrates Court...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009Last Modified:
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Niger: Niger president tightens grip on media with amendmentDate:06/08/2009 In Niger today, the government is holding a public referendum on a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for President Mamadou Tandja to run for office indefinitely...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
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Special Report: Journalists in Exile 2009Date:17/06/2009 Sri Lankan journalists flee under severe pressure in the past year...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: After LasanthaDate:11/01/2010 When the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabhakaran, shut the sluice gates of the Mavil Aru reservoir in July 2006, depriving many of the people in the eastern province of Sri Lanka access to water, a provoked President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed to wipe out the rebel group...
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Monday, 11 January 2010Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: ARTICLE 19 Strongly Condemns Death Threat Against Human Rights ActivistDate:25/08/2009 On 20 August 2009, Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, a human rights activist and Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a leading Sri Lankan think-tank and democracy NGO, as well as a long-standing ARTICLE 19 partner, received an anonymous death threat by post at his residence in Colombo...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: ARTICLE 19 Strongly Condemns Death Threat Against Human Rights ActivistDate:26/08/2009 'On 20 August 2009, Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, a human rights activist and Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a leading Sri Lankan think-tank and democracy NGO, as well as a long-standing ARTICLE 19 partner, received an anonymous death threat by post at his residence in Colombo...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalistDate:01/09/2009 'New York, August 31, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: Credibility Problem, Sri Lanka business chambers condemn attack on TV stationDate:06/01/2009 Sri Lankas top business chambers condemned an attack on a private television station, saying the governments credibility is at stake if it failed to bring the culprits to justice and prevent further attacks...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Deteriorating press freedom continues post-conflictDate:17/07/2009 Today the International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka, of which ARTICLE 19 is a member, issued an open letter to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressing extreme concern over the deterioration of press freedom despite the military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: Editor of The Hindu hits out at pro-LTTE anti social elementsDate:20/10/2008 CHENNAI: N...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: Free Journalists Unfairly Held Date:09/12/2008 The Sri Lankan government should immediately drop charges and free J...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
SRI LANKA: Freedom of expression and rejectionDate:14/01/2009 Freedom of expression is a jewel amongst many that shine in the crown of democracy...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka: Government revives harsh press lawDate:03/07/2009 Reactivation of Discredited Press Council Law a Step Backward for Sri Lanka The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate organisations in Sri Lanka - the Free Media Movement, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists' Association and the Federation of Media Employees' Trade Unions - in strongly condemning the Sri Lankan Government’s decision to revive the Press Council that was established by an act of parliament in 1973...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: IBAHRI recommends protections for a justice system, legal profession and media in perilDate:29/05/2009 Sri Lanka’s justice system, legal profession and media are all under grave threat, concludes a report published today by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: Journalist still in detention after 250 daysDate:11/11/2008 As the trial of newspaper editor and human rights activist JS Tissainayagam gets underway, ARTICLE 19 and Index on Censorship call for his immediate release after being held in detention for 250 days...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Journalists trying to cover fate of Tamils are threatened, obstructedDate:29/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried by statements by Sri Lankan officials, including army commander Gen...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: More journalists harassed Date:03/06/2009 The investigation into the assault on journalist Poddala Jayantha took a new turn when the police arrested and interrogated another journalist who provided the initial information about Mr...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Nearly 400 journalists exiled since 2001, says CPJDate:30/06/2009 Sri Lankan journalist Upali Tennakoon paid a heavy price for producing critical coverage of the government offensive against Tamil rebels this year...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Parliamentarian threatens online journalistsDate:08/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the telephone threats that have been made against reporter Santha Wijesuirya of the Lankaenews website and his editor, Bennet Rupasingha, by parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa, the leader of the National Freedom Front...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: Protect the little media freedom left - RanilDate:21/10/2008 As the UNESCO stressed that the path to true democracy would be blurred when there is a mutual conflict between the media and the government, Opposition UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday warned the little media freedom in the country would be lost if all media associations did not iron out differences and safeguard their rights...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa rules the mediaDate:25/06/2009 The reintroduction of the government-run press council is another marker of the decline of Sri Lanka’s democracy, says Uvindu Kurukulasuriya “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets” ;Napoleon Bonaparte The guns are now silent in Sri Lanka...
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Thursday, 25 June 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: Report blames an ultra-powerful authority for attacks on media freedom Date:09/04/2009 Five media organisations in Sri Lanka issuing an investigative report entitled, The Resurgence of Terror and the paramilitary forces in Sri Lanka, stated that covert operations are carried out by paramilitary groups that have the patronage of an ultra-powerful authority in carrying out terror operations...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Reporters Without Borders welcomes release of N. VithyatharanDate:27/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release of editor of the Tamil daily Sudar Oli, N...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist gets “shameful” 20-year sentence on terrorism chargesDate:01/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the “shameful” 20-year jail sentence which a Colombo high court passed today on journalist J...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: 'Then they came for me' - remembering Lanka's Wickrematunga (Feature) Date:09/02/2009 They came for him in the morning...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
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SRI LANKA: University fires professor for alleging provincial elections were riggedDate:10/10/2008 The Free Media Movement (FMM) registers deep disquiet over the indictment of the General Secretary of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), Mr...
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Friday, 10 October 2008Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka: Website blocking condemned Date:15/07/2009 International media watchdogs have condemned the blocking of another Sri Lankan news website by the authorities...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
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S.Lanka presidential challenger vows press freedomDate:07/01/2010 Sri Lanka's former army chief on Thursday launched his manifesto for the January 26 presidential elections, promising greater press freedom and a battle against rampant corruption...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka Press Council born againDate:15/06/2009 Sri Lanka Press Council, which was inactive for the last seven years, has reborn...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sri Lanka throws out three Channel 4 journalistsDate:11/05/2009 Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh deported after report on deaths, food shortages and sexual abuse at refugee camp Sri Lanka deported three journalists from Channel 4 television today, a day after they were arrested for alleged false reporting on the civil war...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka under siegeDate:02/02/2009 When the fifty-ninth division of Sri Lankas army entered Mullaitivu on 25 January 2009, it marked the fall of the last major town under the control of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka under siegeDate:02/02/2009 When the fifty-ninth division of Sri Lankas army entered Mullaitivu on 25 January 2009, it marked the fall of the last major town under the control of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lankan government comments on investigations into journalists' complaintsDate:15/06/2009 The Sri Lanka government today said they have received 50 complaints from journalists over matters ranging from threats to murder...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
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Sri Lanka's other war keeps media on the runDate:26/01/2009 Sri Lanka is in the grip of its biggest military offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, but the countrys journalists are also facing an unprecedented battle of their own...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
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Top Sri Lankan editor shot dead Date:19/01/2009 The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper often critical of the government has been shot dead in Colombo...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BURUNDI: Freedom of expression and association under threat warns UN expertDate:01/12/2008 The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi, Mr...
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Monday, 1 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BURUNDI: The United States welcomes release from prison of Burundian journalistDate:19/03/2009 The United States welcomes yesterday's release from prison of Burundian journalist Alexis Sinduhije, after he was found not guilty of the charge of insulting the President...
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Thursday, 19 March 2009Last Modified:
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Burundi holds journalist for rapping govt on SomaliaDate:18/07/2010 Burundi authorities have arrested a journalist over an article questioning security forces' ability to respond to attacks by Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents, his relatives said on Sunday...
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Sunday, 18 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Burundian online journalist faces life in prison for treasonDate:19/07/2010 Burundian authorities’ arrest on Saturday of journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu on treason charges over commentary critical of the country’s security forces is alarming, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Monday, 19 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Finnish gov't wants broad powers to force media to name sourcesDate:22/05/2009 A Finnish government working group on Wednesday proposed a number of increases police powers, including the right to force reporters to name sources during the preliminary investigation stage...
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghan journalist killed in PakistanDate:26/08/2009 New York, August 24, 2009--Authorities in Pakistan's northwest tribal regions must immediately investigate today's murder of Afghan journalist Jaah Hashimzada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
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Afghanistan: Afghan journalist killed in PakistanDate:26/08/2009 Authorities in Pakistan's northwest tribal regions must immediately investigate today's murder of Afghan journalist Jaah Hashimzada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
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Afghanistan: Afghan journalists call for justice in Munadi's deathDate:15/09/2009 A large group of Afghan journalists met on Sunday in Kabul...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghan journalists debate election restrictionsDate:24/08/2009 'CPJ spoke with three Kabul-based journalists to learn how they and their colleagues around the country responded to the government's request to mute coverage of violence during polling hours today...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
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Afghanistan: Afghan police beat, detain journalists during electionDate:24/08/2009 Security forces obstructed, assaulted, and detained Afghan and foreign journalists in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan today, enforcing an official gag order on news of violent incidents during the presidential election...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghanistan journalists caught between the government and the TalebanDate:17/08/2009 Journalists in Afghanistan face increasing threats and attacks from both government officials and the Taleban in the run-up to the presidential elections on 20 August...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Sham Vote Date:26/08/2009 'The dust had barely settled on the Afghan elections before the U...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Amid concerns of fraud, UN envoy calls for ensuring integrity of Afghan pollsDate:08/09/2009 'The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today called on national election authorities to ensure the integrity of last month’s presidential and provincial council elections, in light of concerns that have arisen over irregularities in voting...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
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Afghanistan: Amid concerns of fraud, UN envoy calls for ensuring integrity of Afghan pollsDate:08/09/2009 The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today called on national election authorities to ensure the integrity of last month’s presidential and provincial council elections, in light of concerns that have arisen over irregularities in voting...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
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Afghanistan: Amid woes, Kambakhsh release a moment to celebrate Date:09/09/2009 'We received great news that Parwez Kambakhsh, a 24-year-old Afghan journalist and student who was unjustly convicted of blasphemy and serving a 20-year term, was released from prison...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: ARTICLE 19 Calls for Investigation into Journalist’s DeathDate:16/09/2009 ARTICLE 19 calls for an immediate investigation into the death of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: At Tolo and other Afghan media, pressure from all sidesDate:27/07/2009 With elections due on August 20, pressure is mounting on Afghan journalists, and it's coming from all sides...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Emroz channel presenter freed on bail after being held because of complaint by IranDate:22/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders welcomes TV reporter and presenter Fahim Kohdamani's release on 19 April after a four weeks of detention in Kabul and calls for the withdrawal of the defamation and insult charges still pending against him, especially as the organisation has obtained a letter ( attached) proving that his arrest was the result of a complaint by Iranian officials...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Freedom of expression faces increasing threatDate:13/03/2009 Freedom of expression in Afghanistan faces increasing threats from the government as well as anti-government forces, Amnesty International warned today...
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Friday, 13 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Government restricts media coverage on election dayDate:21/08/2009 The instructions which the government issued to the media yesterday forbidding them to cover Taliban violence during tomorrow’s presidential election send a very bad signal, Reporters Without Borders said today...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
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Afghanistan: Jounalist kidnapped, IFJ concerned that dangers faced by journalists may escalate leading up to August electionsDate:16/07/2009 Dangers for Journalists Rise as Afghan Elections Approach The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that the dangers faced by Afghan journalists may be escalating rapidly as Afghanistan prepares for nation-wide elections on August 20...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Letter asks presidential candidates to pledge to advance press freedomDate:03/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Afghanistan’s leading presidential candidates – including Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Ashraf Ghani, Ramazan Bashardost and Sayed Jalal Karim – urging them to give a clear undertaking to ensure that press freedom becomes firmly rooted in the everyday life of Afghans...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Media Law Wrangling Leaves Journalists in LimboDate:25/02/2009 Few legal issues in Afghanistan's chaotic recent past have caused so much fuss as the still-unpublished media law, which has gone through at least three major revisions in the past seven years, with the latest version seemingly far from becoming a reality...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh is freed and goes abroadDate:08/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply relieved to learn that Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young journalist who was sentenced to death and then to 20 years in prison for downloading an article about the rights of women in Islam, was secretly pardoned and released several weeks ago and left the country for fear of reprisals...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh is freed and goes abroadDate:09/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply relieved to learn that Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young journalist who was sentenced to death and then to 20 years in prison for downloading an article about the rights of women in Islam, was secretly pardoned and released several weeks ago and left the country for fear of reprisals...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: State radio and TV broadcaster backs Hamid Karzai’s reelection campaignDate:17/08/2009 The violence that threatens journalists working for Afghanistan’s news media has created a climate that does not favour free and impartial coverage of the 20 August crucial presidential election, now just one week away, Reporters Without Borders said today...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: UN: Violence hampering Afghan voteDate:11/08/2009 Insecurity in significant portions of Afghanistan has hindered election preparations and disproportionately affected Afghan women, a report co-authored by the U...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: What gains for press freedom from Hamid Karzai's seven years as President?Date:09/07/2009 The reign of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 was a dark period in Afghanistan’s history...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan: Wide Fraud Is Charged as Afghans Tally Votes Date:26/08/2009 KABUL, Afghanistan ; The preliminary results from Afghanistan’s election gave both President Hamid Karzai and his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, nearly 40 percent of the vote on Tuesday as accumulating charges of widespread fraud cast new doubts on the credibility of the election...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan's Constitution Creates Death Penalties for Religious FreedomDate:24/02/2009 When Ahmad Ghawas Zalmi worked with a cleric from a Kabul mosque to produce 1, 000 pocket-sized copies of the Quran in the Afghan language known as Dari, he probably was not expecting to end up facing execution for his efforts...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Afghanistan's war on booksDate:09/06/2009 The Afghan government last week threw tens of thousands of books into the Helmand river, in the south of the country...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ALGERIA: Journalist provisionally releasedDate:17/03/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the provisional release on medical grounds of an Algerian journalist known for his denunciation of corruption under President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, but is concerned that he will need to return to jail to serve a six-month sentence...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Algeria: Three French publications banned on the eve of presidential electionDate:09/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the Algerian government's decision to ban distribution of the current issues of three French publications - L'Express, Marianne and Journal du Dimanche - on the eve of tomorrow's election, in which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is running for a third term...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Algeria Begins Participation in the IMF’s General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)Date:21/04/2009 Algeria began participating in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) today, marking a major step forward in the development of its statistical system...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Angola: In continuing harassment, newspaper editor forbidden to leave countryDate:13/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the foreign travel ban that has been placed on William Tonet, the editor of the independent Luanda-based biweekly Folha 8 (F8), whose passport was seized when he tried to cross by land into Namibia on 9 May...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Argentina: Argentine president sends media reform to CongressDate:28/08/2009 Argentina's president sent a media reform bill to Congress on Thursday, saying it would strengthen democracy by reducing the control of a handful of companies that dominate broadcasting...
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Friday, 28 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Argentina: CPJ seeks comprehensive inquiry in Clarín tax raid Date:14/09/2009 Two hundred tax agents raided the offices of Argentina’s largest daily, Clarín, on Wednesday after the paper ran a cover story alleging that a government agency improperly granted a farm subsidy, the local press said...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Argentina: free press, for nowDate:06/04/2009 From Raúl Alfonsín onwards, Argentina has done well to move on from the dark days of the generals...
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Monday, 6 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Argentina: Intentionally-set fire destroys Radio Activa facilities in El BolsónDate:09/06/2009 An intentionally-set fire completely destroyed the facilities of FM Radio Activa, in El Bolsón, Río Negro province, located on the border with Chile...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:01/06/2009 Writing on walls is not a modern phenomenon...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Argentina passes controversial media reformDate:11/10/2009 Argentina’s largest media groups will be required to sell off various radio and television channels in the wake of a controversial media law rushed through on Saturday...
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Sunday, 11 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Argentine government clamps down on country's largest media organisationDate:21/08/2010 ARGENTINA’S GOVERNMENT ordered the country’s largest media organisation and a leading critic of its policies to shut down its internet service provider on Thursday...
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Saturday, 21 August 2010Last Modified:
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Argentine president's media reform stirs suspicionsDate:24/04/2009 A drive by Argentinas president to overhaul an outdated media law is arousing suspicions she wants to punish the countrys biggest media group and hush her critics during an election campaign...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Armenia: Free speech under assault in YerevanDate:15/05/2009 Journalists in Armenia, both opposition and pro-government in orientation, indicate that they are increasingly wary of trying to fulfill the press’ traditional role of government watchdog...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Armenia: Journalists attacked at various polling stationsDate:12/06/2009 At a news conference on 2 June 2009, the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (CPJ) listed the instances of interference with journalists' professional activities as recorded during the latest election of the Yerevan Elders' Council (a local self-government body)...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
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ARMENIA: Legislative Change in Spite of EctHR DecisionDate:08/10/2008 Recent amendments to the Armenian Law on Television and Radio have introduced a moratorium on the granting of broadcasting licences until mid-2010 due to a planned digital switchover will further prevent opposition TV station A1+ from returning to air...
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ARMENIA: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DEBATE FLARES, CRITICS SAY THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS OF LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENTS Date:25/02/2009 Proposed amendments to a law on religion in Armenia are stoking an intense debate over religious freedom and church-state relations...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Armenian diaspora targets European TurksDate:26/01/2009 A new European Union framework decision on racism and xenophobia will threaten European Turks if it is extended to include claims that Anatolian Armenians were subjected to genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire, sources warn...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Armenian online editor beaten, hospitalizedDate:01/05/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Armenian authorities to apprehend three assailants who attacked Argishti Kivirian, editor of the independent news Web site Armenia Today...
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Friday, 1 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Armenian Watchdog Deplores ‘Lack Of Media Freedom’ Date:20/01/2010 Armenia continues to suffer from a grave lack of media freedom, with the government continuing to effectively control domestic broadcasters and more journalists subjected to physical attacks in the past year, a Yerevan-based watchdog said on Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
AUSTRALIA: Expression costs freedomDate:03/02/2009 GRAFFITI vandals once sought to explain their crimes as freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
AUSTRALIA: Fighting for freedom of speechDate:29/01/2009 FREEDOM of speech and a free press are among the freedoms we take for granted in Australia...
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Thursday, 29 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
AUSTRALIA: Nazi flag is free speech - AGDate:21/10/2008 THERES not much the South Australian Government can do to stop an Adelaide man flying a Nazi flag on his property, state Attorney-General Michael Atkinson says...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
AUSTRALIA: Unlikely trio defends freedom of speechDate:27/03/2009 They make for a strange trio of bedfellows, Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, David Marr, the journalist, and Janet Albrechtsen, the columnist - public figures whose views on politics, society and religion could not be more different...
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Friday, 27 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Australia: Xenophon's push to improve shield lawsDate:03/04/2009 INDEPENDENT senator Nick Xenophon is working on a plan to force the federal Government to improve its proposed shield laws for journalists sources...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Australian jailed for insulting Kuwaiti rulerDate:21/04/2009 An Australian woman has been sentenced to two years in a Kuwaiti jail after she was convicted of insulting the countrys ruler...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Azerbaijan: Azadlig journalist receives death threatDate:04/06/2009 Azadlig newspaper employee Vidadi Mammadov reported to the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) that on 2 June 2009, he received a death threat from an unidentified person...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
AZERBAIJAN: Are officials striving to de-claw mass media outlets?Date:16/03/2009 As Azerbaijan prepares for a controversial March 18 referendum on lifting presidential term limits, pro-presidential lawmakers are gearing up to adopt a set of media law amendments that would stifle the ability of media outlets to critically examine government conduct, local media watchdogs say...
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Monday, 16 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:05/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s recommendations as outlined in its concluding observations on Azerbaijan’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the Covenant)...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Azerbaijan: ARTICLE 19 Condemns Conviction of Journalists for DefamationDate:27/07/2009 Two senior journalists were found guilty and sentenced to prison on defamation charges in a Baku district court on 22 July 2009...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Azerbaijan: Civil society and the media out of immediate danger?Date:03/07/2009 ARTICLE 19 welcomes a decision on 30 June by the parliament of Azerbaijan, the Milli Mejlis, not to adopt the most restrictive proposals in a package of legislative amendments governing civil society and media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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AZERBAIJAN: Council Of Europe Concerned About Azerbaijan's Foreign Radio Plan Date:02/12/2008 A leading European human rights body expressed concern today at proposals in Azerbaijan to halt foreign radio broadcasts in the tightly run ex-Soviet state...
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Tuesday, 2 December 2008Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Court Defies European Court Instruction to Free Journalist Date:13/11/2010 The Azerbaijan Supreme Court has refused to abide by a binding European Court of Human Rights judgment to release a wrongfully imprisoned, outspoken journalist, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Saturday, 13 November 2010Last Modified:
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AZERBAIJAN: Government to close channels for last remaining independent broadcasters in the countryDate:05/11/2008 ARTICLE 19 is concerned about a recent decision by the Azerbaijan National Television and Radio Council to effectively ban international radio stations from broadcasting on national frequencies...
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Halt Libel Case Against Rights DefenderDate:22/01/2009 The Azerbaijani government should immediately withdraw its libel case against the human rights activist Leyla Yunus, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Thursday, 22 January 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Imprisonment of Bloggers Politically MotivatedDate:12/11/2009 ARTICLE 19 condemns the prison sentences handed down to two internet journalists and youth activists, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, on 11 November 2009 on politically motivated “hooliganism” charges...
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Thursday, 12 November 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Journalist denied release for refusing to play volley-ball Date:24/09/2009 On the prison system’s recommendation, a judge has rejected a request for the early release of Ganimat Zahidov, the editor of the opposition daily Azadlig, on the grounds that he refused to take part in a volley-ball game in prison...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Letter regarding Emin Milli and Adan Hajizade Date:04/09/2009 Dear President Aliyev, ARTICLE 19, Global Campaign for Free Expression, Human Rights Watch and International PEN wish to express our profound concern regarding the arrest and pre-trial detention of Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, two Azerbaijani youth activists...
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Friday, 4 September 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Media face threats from revised lawDate:17/06/2009 The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is concerned about the proposed changes to the Azerbaijan Republic Law on Mass Media to be discussed in an extraordinary session of Mill Mejlis (parliament) on 19 June 2009...
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AZERBAIJAN: Media Law Institute makes report on legal situation of mediaDate:13/10/2008 The Media Law Institutes next annual report on legal situation of media in Azerbaijan, is entitled Media law in Azerbaijan: important developments and tendencies, according to APA...
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Azerbaijan: Mirza Sakit Zahidov finally releasedDate:09/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders hails the release of Mirza Sakit Zahidov, a satirical poet and journalist employed by the opposition daily Azadlig, who received a pardon today from President Ilham Aliev...
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AZERBAIJAN: New Azeri Media Law Changes Await President's Signature Date:11/03/2009 A set of controversial amendments to Azerbaijans media law have been passed by the parliament and sent to President Ilham Aliyevs office for final approval, RFE/RLs Azerbaijani Service reports...
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Azerbaijan: Professors Protest Detention of Bloggers in AzerbaijanDate:06/08/2009 An Azerbaijan blogger who studied political science in the United States is sitting in a prison cell in his home country for what family and professors say was an act of free speech...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Proposed Amendments Threaten Media, Civil SocietyDate:19/06/2009 The rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association are at serious imminent risk in Azerbaijan as the country’s parliament, the Milli Mejlis, this week deliberates on further restrictions on the media and civic organisations...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Proposed Amendments Threaten Media, Civil SocietyDate:29/06/2009 The rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association are at serious imminent risk in Azerbaijan as the country’s parliament, the Milli Mejlis, this week deliberates on further restrictions on the media and civic organisations...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Release of One Blogger Not Enough Date:18/11/2010 Today the Baku Court of Appeals released Hajizade 10 months early on parole...
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Thursday, 18 November 2010Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Sham trial of two bloggers on trumped-up hooliganism chargesDate:16/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders urges Judge Araz Huseynov to heed the calls by human rights organisations and governments for the release of bloggers Adnan Hadji Zadeh and Emin Milli when they appear in court tomorrow for the second hearing in their trial on charges of hooliganism and “deliberate physical violence...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Two youth activists arrestedDate:20/07/2009 Amnesty International is deeply concerned by the latest development in the continued clampdown against civil society and media activists in Azerbaijan...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan: Supreme Court rejects bloggers' appeal: lawyerDate:21/08/2010 BAKU ; Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by two jailed bloggers whose case has sparked international concern over freedom of speech in the ex-Soviet republic, their lawyer said Friday...
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Saturday, 21 August 2010Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan Facebook activist convicted on 'trumped up' drugs charge after calling for 'Arab Spring'-style protestsDate:05/05/2011 Authorities in Azerbaijan must immediately release a member of an opposition youth organisation sentenced to two and a half years in prison on fabricated drug charges...
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Thursday, 5 May 2011Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan goes to the polls with weakened mediaDate:16/10/2008 Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan has been an increasing source of concern during the last four years, with a sharp rise in violent attacks, intimidation and fatalities aimed at silencing the opposition and independent journalists...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan marks National Press DayDate:22/07/2009 It is timed to the day of the first publication of the Akinchi newspaper 134 years ago by Hasanbay Zardabi...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009Last Modified:
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Azerbaijan should urgently improve the protection of freedom of expression, says Commissioner HammarbergDate:01/07/2010 Strasbourg...
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Thursday, 1 July 2010Last Modified:
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Azerbaijani Parliament makes changes to mass media lawDate:09/03/2009 The issue of changes and amendments to the mass media law was discussed at the parliament on Friday...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
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Terry Davis calls Azerbaijani powers to review cases of imprisoned journalistsDate:12/02/2009 CE Secretary General Terry Davis is concerned over the number of journalists imprisoned in Azerbaijan and calls on the country leadership to review their cases, says the official website of the Council of Europe...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
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Bahrain: ARTICLE 19 Calls for the End of the Harassment of Ghada JamsheerDate:06/02/2009 ARTICLE 19 has written to Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain, asking him to ensure that women's rights activist, Ghada Jamsheer, is protected from harassment and guaranteed her right to free expression...
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Title Too LongDate:10/02/2009 On 26 January 2009, three prominent Bahraini human rights activists Mr Hasan Mushaima, Secretary General of the Movement of Civil Liberties and Democracy (HAQ); Mr Mohamed Habib Al-Muqdad, a scholar and social activist; and Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace, Head of Human Rights Unit at HAQ, were arrested...
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Bahrain: Drop Charges against Editor of Independant DailyDate:11/04/2011 (Manama) - Bahraini authorities should immediately drop politically-motivated charges against Mansoor al-Jamri, allow him to return as chief editor of Al Wasat, and cease their campaign to silence independent journalism, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 11 April 2011Last Modified:
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Bahrain: Journalist faces defamation charges over article on corruptionDate:17/07/2009 According to a 26 June 2009 statement, the Public Prosecution (PP) has referred the case of journalist Husain Sabt, who is accused of defamation, to court after reviewing the evidence against him...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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Bahrain declares martial law as protesters clash with troopsDate:15/03/2011 The streets of Bahrain's capital, Manama, have again erupted in violence as the kingdom's besieged monarch declared martial law and ordered troops - including Saudi forces - to take all measures to quell a festering rebellion...
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Bahrain declares martial law as protesters clash with troopsDate:15/03/2011 The streets of Bahrain's capital, Manama, have again erupted in violence as the kingdom's besieged monarch declared martial law and ordered troops - including Saudi forces - to take all measures to quell a festering rebellion...
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Bahrain information authority seeks ways to improve media standardsDate:16/02/2011 King Hamad has often called for greater media freedom and has urged the parliament to enact an enlightened and advanced press code that would underpin freedom of expression...
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Bahrain protesters' camp stormed by troopsDate:16/03/2011 'Soldiers and riot police used tear gas and armoured vehicles to drive out hundreds of anti-government protesters occupying a landmark square in Bahrain's capital, a day after emergency rule was imposed in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom...
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State of emergency declared in BahrainDate:15/03/2011 Manama: Bahrain state TV says a three-month state of emergency has been declared to try to quell political unrest threatening the monarchy...
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Bangladesh: ARTICLE 19 Launches Right to Information HandbookDate:05/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 has launched a handbook on the 2009 Right to Information Act on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2009...
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Bangladesh: Government’s Vision for Digital Bangladesh Must Include Community RadiosDate:20/05/2009 As part of its vision for Digital Bangladesh, the Government of Bangladesh has committed to issuing licenses for community radio stations...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Bangladesh: Right to Information Act comes into forceDate:17/07/2009 The International Press Institute welcomes the enactment on 1 July of Bangladesh's long-awaited Right to Information Act (2009), and the appointment, under Article 15(1) of the Act, of a three-member Information Commission, as an important step towards acknowledgment of the people's right to access information...
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BANGLADESH: Right to Information law welcomedDate:24/10/2008 ARTICLE 19 has welcomed the publication of the Right to Information Ordinance, No...
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Friday, 24 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Bangladesh blocking free expressionDate:27/03/2009 Freedom of expression and freedom of the media have become key issues around the world, especially with the advent of the Internet, which has broadened the opportunities for innumerable individuals, institutions and communities to express their views without restriction...
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Friday, 27 March 2009Last Modified:
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Bangladeshi Media Polarized and Under Pressure, IPI Mission FindsDate:07/01/2009 IPI today issued its preliminary report on the press freedom mission conducted in Bangladesh from 27 November to 2 December, in advance of national elections, currently slated for December 29...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2009Last Modified:
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BELARUS: Independent journalists and concerned organisations gather to debate censorshipDate:10/10/2008 On 8 October, representatives of the Belarusian independent media participated in a meeting, together with ARTICLE 19 and other international organisations, on censorship and state restrictions on press freedom in Belarus...
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BELARUS: Journalists, government officials divided over new Media LawDate:09/02/2009 In an interview with BelaPAN...
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BELARUS: New law not aimed at «cleansing media space», official saysDate:05/02/2009 Natallya Pyatkevich, deputy head of the Presidential Administration, has defended Belarus' new Media Law to take effect on February 8, saying that it was not aimed at cleansing the media space, BelaPAN said...
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Title Too LongDate:19/02/2009 NGO Belarusian Association of Journalists issued a statement on the new Law on Mass Media...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009Last Modified:
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Belarus journalist beaten by policeDate:20/12/2010 Natalia Radzina, the editor-in-chief of Charter97...
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Monday, 20 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Bhutan: ‘Too early to say Bhutan has press freedom’ Date:01/06/2009 A Bhutanese journalist working with a weekly newspaper published from Thimphu said it would be too early to say that Bhutan has press freedom even after the country adopted constitution and changed its politics from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy last year...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
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Bolivia: Journalist detained by Public Prosecutor's Office security directorDate:07/07/2009 On 24 June 2009, journalist Rogelio Peláez, the editor of the monthly Larga Vista in La Paz, reported that he was detained by the security director for the Public Prosecutor's Office, Major Octavio García, when he was covering a protest by two women who were expressing their outrage over the disappearance of their relatives during the dictatorship of the 1980s...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
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Bolivia: Television station condemns harrassment of journalist following series of reports on public security issuesDate:06/07/2009 On 17 June 2009, the Bolivian Television Network Unitel stated in a communiqué that journalist and news presenter Jimena Antelo Telchi was harassed on 11 June by five men who said they were police officers...
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Bolivia Questions IAPA ReportDate:19/03/2009 The Bolivian government questioned a report released by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) regarding freedom of expression here...
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Thursday, 19 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Bolivian newspapers stage protestDate:11/10/2010 Several Bolivian newspapers protested last week against a proposed law that would allow the government to shut down media outlets it deems guilty of racism...
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Monday, 11 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Botswana: Appeal on the Media Practitioners Act Date:16/02/2009 We, the undersigned freedom of expression organisations, make reference to the above matter and hereby appeal to your office and that of the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology to review the Media Practitioners Act passed by Parliament on 11 December and assented to by the Executive on 31 December 2008...
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Monday, 16 February 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana: Deep Divisions Remain Over Media Law Date:15/05/2009 Inter Press Services news agency reports that deep divisions still remain in Botswana over the Media Practitioners Act passed in December 2008...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
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BOTSWANA: Government giving editorial directives to state media, warns MISADate:16/10/2008 The Mmegi newspaper of 9 October 2008 has reported that the state-owned media is being given editorial directives to advance government positions on civic issues such as its fight against alcohol abuse...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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BOTSWANA: GOVERNMENT PASSES REPRESSIVE MEDIA LAWDate:22/01/2009 Botswana has hurriedly passed a controversial media law that journalists fear will restrict their work, say the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and news reports...
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Thursday, 22 January 2009Last Modified:
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BOTSWANA: Moatlhodi's Fate, A Wake Up Call Date:17/11/2008 The latest affront to freedom of expression by the ruling Botswana Democratic party is a clear vindication of MISA Botswana opinion that things are falling apart in this democracy...
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Monday, 17 November 2008Last Modified:
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Botswana: No One is Safe from the Media LawDate:30/01/2009 The controversial Media Practitioners' Bill is now law...
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Friday, 30 January 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana: Publishers challenge media lawDate:12/05/2009 A lawyer representing publishers in Botswana says they have taken a first legal step they hope will lead to a new media law being declared unconstitutional...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana defends media law Date:27/01/2009 While Botswanas Government says reporters have nothing to fear, the new media laws have been labelled as repressive misleading...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana journalists complain about new media lawDate:16/01/2009 Botswanas government has rushed a law into effect that journalists fear will restrict their work, journalists and opposition politicians said...
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Friday, 16 January 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana publishers challenge media lawDate:08/05/2009 A lawyer representing publishers in Botswana says they have taken a first legal step they hope will lead to a new media law being declared unconstitutional...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana's government defends new media lawDate:26/01/2009 Botswanas government says reporters have nothing to fear from a new media law, but a journalism advocate calls the law repressive and the official defense misleading...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
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Botswana's new media law slammedDate:09/02/2009 THE new law on the registration of Media Practitioners in Botswana has been sharply criticised by various media institutions from outside and inside that country...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: 1st National Conference on Communication to Go AheadDate:08/09/2009 On 1 September 2009, after much uncertainty, the national preparatory commission for the first Brazilian Conference on Communication has finally been made official...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Access to Information Bill Could be Approved by the End of 2009Date:10/08/2009 Following the launch of ARTICLE 19’s review of the new Brazilian Access to Information Bill (see below), Brazilian politicians welcomed ARTICLE 19’s concerns and recommendations on the draft legislation...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Arson Attack Destroys Radio’s Broadcasting StudioDate:15/02/2010 The studio of radio broadcaster Nova Coari, based in Coari, Amazonas state, was completely destroyed by an arson attack on 8 February 2010...
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Monday, 15 February 2010Last Modified:
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Brazil: ARTICLE 19 Launches Analysis on Draft Access to Information BillDate:06/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 has published its analysis on the long-awaited draft Access to Information Bill was sent by President Lula to Brazilian National Congress in May 2009...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Government Promises to Adopt Right to InformationDate:07/04/2009 On 1 April 2009, at the opening session of the International Seminar on Access to Information, the Brazilian Minister of Internal Affairs, Dilma Rousseff, announced that a draft law on the right to information would be sent to Congress by the end of April...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009Last Modified:
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BRAZIL: Impunity in case of journalist's murder threatens freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The family of journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho are being harassed a year and a half after he was murdered in Porto Ferreira, in the state of São Paulo...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRAZIL: Impunity in case of journalist's murder threatens freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The family of journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho are being harassed a year and a half after he was murdered in Porto Ferreira, in the state of São Paulo...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRAZIL: Impunity in case of journalist's murder threatens freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The family of journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho are being harassed a year and a half after he was murdered in Porto Ferreira, in the state of São Paulo...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
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Brazil: Journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto Ordered to Pay US$15, 000Date:09/07/2009 The Superior Court of the State of Para, in the north of Brazil, ordered journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto to pay approximately US$15, 000 for defaming Romulo Maionara, a deceased local businessman...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto ordered to pay US$15, 000 for defamationDate:09/07/2009 The Superior Court of the State of Para, in the north of Brazil, ordered journalist Luiz Flavio Pinto to pay approximately US$15, 000 for defaming Romulo Maionara, a deceased local businessman...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Lula Sends Access to Information Bill to CongressDate:13/05/2009 Brazilian President Lula da Silva today sent the long-awaited draft Access to Information Bill to the Brazilian National Congress...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: National Conference on Communications AnnouncedDate:21/04/2009 On 16 April 2009, Brazilian President Lula da Silva signed a decree announcing the first Brazilian National Conference on Communications...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Proposed Electoral Law Restricts Internet FreedomDate:15/09/2009 Proposed reform of the Brazilian electoral rules, part of broader reforms in this area being debated by the Senate, would subject internet media to the same rules as traditional broadcasters during electoral campaigns...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil: Supreme Court allows publications of civil servants' salariesDate:17/07/2009 On 8 July 2009, the Supreme Court of Brazil held that the mayor of the Municipality of Sao Paulo could order the salary of all municipal civil servants to be put online...
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Brazil: Supreme Court OKs publication of Civil Servants saliaries'Date:15/07/2009 On 8 July 2009, the Supreme Court of Brazil held that the Mayor of the Municipality of Sao Paulo could order the salary of all municipal civil servants to be put online...
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Brazil: Supreme Court Strikes Down Press LawDate:05/05/2009 On 30 April 2009, the Brazilian Supreme Court held that the 1967 Press Law, adopted by a military government, was void as it breached the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
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Brazil’s future president Dilma Rousseff promises press freedomDate:02/11/2010 In her acceptance speech in Brasília, President-elect Dilma Rousseff highlighted the role of the press and promised that her future government would guarantee freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010Last Modified:
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Brazilian court annuls dictatorship-era press lawDate:05/05/2009 Brazils Supreme Court has struck down a press censorship law enacted during a nearly quarter-century military dictatorship...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
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BULGARIA: Freedom of speech detiorates in Bulgaria - rights groupDate:26/03/2009 Freedom of expression has deteriorated in Bulgaria and state pressure on media is rising, a human rights group said on Wednesday...
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Thursday, 26 March 2009Last Modified:
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Cambodia: ARTICLE 19 Analyses Draft Penal CodeDate:21/09/2009 ARTICLE 19 has produced a Comment analysing the draft Cambodian Penal Code provisions affecting freedom of expression...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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Cambodia: Civil society groups slam Cambodian government's harsh suppression of freedom of expressionDate:11/06/2009 Several civil society groups in Cambodia expressed concern at what they claim as the perilous state of freedom of expression in the country...
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Thursday, 11 June 2009Last Modified:
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Cambodia: Harshest crackdown in years, says Human Rights WatchDate:17/07/2009 The Cambodian government of Prime Minister Hun Sen should end its campaign of harassment, threats, and unwarranted legal action aimed at consolidating its rule by silencing the political opposition and peaceful critics, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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CAMBODIA: Internet to be regulated: minister Date:14/01/2009 The Ministry of Information is drafting legislation that allows existing print regulations to govern other media, including the internet, but vows not to curtail press freedom...
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CAMBODIA: Journalist ethics questionedDate:02/03/2009 The Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) said Thursday that 22 cases of violence against journalists were recorded in the second half of 2008 and the first two months of 2009...
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CAMBODIA: Judicial independence is the key to reducing defamation lawsuits against critics and upholding freedom of expressionDate:17/06/2009 Prime Minister Hun Sen is utilising much of the country’s electronic media to assert his leadership of the country and send out messages to his people through his public speeches at different functions...
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Cambodia: Newspaper editor jailed under law bequeathed by UNDate:30/06/2009 Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Hang Chakra, the editor of the daily Khmer Machas Srok (http:// kmsblog...
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Cambodia: NGOs Worry Over Intent of New Law Date:02/04/2009 A draft law to tighten control over Cambodias many non-governmental organizations is nearly completed and will soon be at the Council of Ministers for final approval before moving on to the National Assembly...
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Cambodia: The Official Launch of the First Online Human Rights Portal Date:09/08/2010 Sithi...
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Monday, 9 August 2010Last Modified:
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Cambodia: Tried in absentia, Cambodian journalist immediately arrested, sent to prisonDate:03/07/2009 The editor-in-chief of the The Khmer Machas Srok newspaper, who had been fined and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, was arrested on the same day by the police and sent to the Prey Sar prison, near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, media reports said...
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CAMBODIA: Why should an MP defamation plaintiff be sued and have her immunity suspended?Date:01/05/2009 At a news conference on 23 April 2009, Ms Mu Sohua, Member of Parliament (MP) for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), flanked by her lawyer, announced that she was going to file a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Hun Sen...
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Expression still limited in Cambodia: forum Date:12/11/2008 An annual Asia-wide lecture tour promoting freedom of expression touched down Monday in Phnom Penh, providing students and journalists with a chance to compare levels of expression in their home country with those across Asia and Europe...
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008Last Modified:
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New Cambodian laws may suppress free speech: rights groupsDate:11/12/2010 Cambodia is introducing new laws which rights groups warned Friday could be used to silence critics and stifle freedom of expression...
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Cambodia Criticized for Curtailing Freedom of ExpressionDate:24/09/2009 Cambodia has been accused of silencing critics with lawsuits, jail time, and assassinations...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
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Cameroon: Two journalists sentenced to five years in prison following closed-door hearingDate:10/06/2009 On 3 June 2009, a military tribunal in Yaoundé sentenced Jacques Blaise Mvié and Charles René Nwe, general manager and editor-in-chief, respectively, of La Nouvelle newspaper, to five years in prison and a 500, 000 FCFA (approx...
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Cameroon journalist expelled for bogus reasonsDate:15/10/2009 Innocent Ebodé, editor of the privately-owned weekly La Voix published in the capital N’Djamena was expelled from Chad yesterday after the authorities accused the Cameroon national of “staying illegally” in Chad...
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Thursday, 15 October 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: Access to information: law and reality miles apartDate:03/03/2009 Imagine a lawyer heading into court to argue a case without being able to read the court file or the documents being entered as evidence...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: B.C. Court of Appeal rules against BCTF and HEU in freedom-of-expression caseDate:09/02/2009 The B...
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Canada: Court to rule on 'tidal wave' of press-freedom cases Date:27/05/2009 The value that Canadians place on the freedom of the press will be put to the test in five media rights cases that dominate the Supreme Court of Canada docket this year...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: Critics pan Montreal's cop slur bylawDate:30/01/2009 A move by Montreal to make it illegal to insult a police officer is drawing ridicule and free-speech warnings...
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Friday, 30 January 2009Last Modified:
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Canada: Don't rush to ban the burkaDate:06/07/2009 The President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, recently commented that the burka – the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women - is not welcome in France...
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CANADA: Green meets read at Freedom to Read WeekDate:20/02/2009 Environmentalism and free speech both have their champions, but seldom are the issues joined in a single rallying cry...
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CANADA: High court ponders whether access to information a rightDate:09/12/2008 The Supreme Court of Canada, in a massive legal challenge Thursday that is drawing more than a dozen interveners, will consider whether access-to-information laws, which permit the public to see documents that the state seeks to keep secret, are so restrictive that they violate freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Judge finds Ahenakew not guilty in 2nd hate trialDate:24/02/2009 David Ahenakew, a former senator with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, has been found not guilty of wilfully promoting hatred against Jewish people...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Justify why libel law needs change, top court tells mediaDate:19/02/2009 The countrys top judges, faced with an appeal that could establish a new defence against defamation lawsuits, have challenged Canadian media organizations to justify why journalists should be given a greater right to be wrong...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: Media lose appeal of news blackoutDate:27/01/2009 Several media organizations, including The Associated Press, lost an appeal Monday to lift a news blackout on a prominent terrorism case in Canada, but lawyers for the media said the court ruling is a partial victory for journalists reporting on preliminary court hearings...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: Native chiefs accuse CBC of hateful online commentsDate:12/02/2009 A group of Manitoba native chiefs is urging that hate charges be filed against the CBC for what it called racist and hateful comments posted on the broadcasters website...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: No fare: Atheist bus ads get booted from busesDate:24/02/2009 Public transit authorities in the cities of Ottawa, Vancouver, and Halifax have decided to censor atheist bus advertisements...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: No fare: Atheist bus ads get booted from busesDate:24/02/2009 Public transit authorities in the cities of Ottawa, Vancouver, and Halifax have decided to censor atheist bus advertisements...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: No More Freedom of Expression on University Campuses? Date:03/02/2009 It's come to my attention that universities are the breeding grounds for limitations of human rights; one group of people or another is constantly being treated as unequal...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada: Supreme Court upholds freedom of expressionDate:13/07/2009 The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of the Canadian Federation of Students-BC and the BC Teachers' Federation in their fight, for the right, to advertise on public transit...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
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CANADA: Update libel law, lawyers argueDate:19/02/2009 OTTAWA -- The press cannot continue to fearlessly publish tough stories which better society unless the courts modernize the countrys archaic libel and defamation laws, the Supreme Court of Canada was told yesterday...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pro-Hamas demonstrations in Montreal: Reasonable accommodation? How about accommodating reason!Date:19/01/2009 The spate of pro-Hamas demonstrations in Montreal over the past weeks raises questions that should bother us as a community regardless of where one stands on the conflict in the Middle East...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Take hate speech out of Canada rights code: reportDate:24/11/2008 Hate-speech provisions should be cut out of Canadian human rights law because they end up leading to government repression, a report commissioned by the Canadian Human Rights Commission recommended on Monday...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Net in Canada: a black hole in cyberspace?Date:28/09/2010 The scope of the Freedom of Expression in Canada will be tested when the Supreme Court of Canada rules on Crookes vs Newton, the freedom of speech case that’s due to be heard in Ottawa on December 7...
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada Slams Door in Chicago Reporter's Face Date:11/02/2010 Canada is rarely mentioned as an oppressive country that limits freedom of expression and press...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada Supreme Court hears media appealDate:16/11/2009 News blackouts unjustifiably prevented the public from learning why charges were dropped or suspended for some terror suspects, media lawyers told Canada's Supreme Court on Monday...
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Monday, 16 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canadian's jihadi videos were free speech, not terrorism, court toldDate:04/02/2009 The accused Maskinongé terrorist created videos with titles such as Jihad Academy and Mujahideen Secrets using a souped-up computer in his basement apartment in the sleepy Quebec town...
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Central African Republic: Censorship, Self-Censorship Greatest Threats to Press Freedom in 2008, Says JEDDate:06/01/2009 Amid commemorative ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as its own 10th anniversary, JED released its 2008 annual report on press freedom on 23 December 2008...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Central African Republic: Daily suspended for two weeksDate:22/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders voices its support for the newspaper editors who have decided to bring out no issues for two weeks from today in solidarity with the daily L'Hirondelle, which was suspended by the High Council for Communication (HCC) for two weeks from yesterday for publishing an article on 2 April allegedly calling for sedition by the armed forces...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHILE: Defence Council admits State violated journalist’s freedom of expressionDate:02/10/2008 Under pressure from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Chile's State Defense Council has agreed to compensate one of Chile's top investigative journalists, Alejandra Matus Acuña, in respect of the State persecution and censorship she suffered after publishing 'The Black Book of Chilean Justice in 1999...
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Thursday, 2 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Academic arrested following publication of online articleDate:13/07/2009 The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Uyghur writer, academic and member of the Uyghur PEN Centre, Iham Tohti, who was reportedly arrested in Beijing on 6 July 2009...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Bloggers contained by police for online contentDate:20/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns actions by Chinese authorities to locate and detain bloggers and delete online content and debate concerning controversial issues...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: China Considers State Secrets Law RevisionDate:27/07/2009 On June 22, 2009, a draft revision of China’s Law on Guarding State Secrets was given a first reading at the Ninth Session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC)...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: China launches Arabic TV channelDate:27/07/2009 China has launched a 24-hour Arabic-language television channel aimed at addressing distorted views of China in the Middle East and North Africa...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: China's Green Dam finally cracksDate:18/08/2009 The Chinese government backed away on Thursday from its attempt to mandate censorship software, Green Dam and Youth Escort, on personal computers, a move that was previously delayed...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: CPJ condemns harassment of journalists, censorship in UrumqiDate:13/07/2009 China must allow free reporting and Internet in Urumqi Authorities in northwestern Xinjiang should stop the harassment of journalists reporting on ethnic rioting and restore Internet access in the regional capital, Urumqi, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: CPJ testifies on China's media controlsDate:11/09/2009 Madeline Earp...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Crackdown on lawyers and legal activistsDate:09/09/2009 'In a report released today, Amnesty documents an alarming escalation of the crackdown on lawyers and legal activists who have accepted the risk of human rights cases in China...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Dissident and literary scholar Liu Xiaobo formally arrestedDate:29/06/2009 Amnesty International condemns the formal arrest of prominent scholar and activist Liu Xiaobo on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on 23 June...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Dissident Writer Interrogated for Publishing Critical Articles Date:24/02/2009 Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Zhejiang-based writer Wu Gaoxing (???) was interrogated by public security police for defaming the reputation of state organs...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Europe Asks for Software Delay Date:29/06/2009 The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, called on China to postpone its requirement that computers be sold with Internet filters starting July 1...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Fears for Web FreedomDate:19/11/2008 Writers in China said they feared a long hard road before real freedom of expression emerges in China, as authorities in the eastern province of Jiangsu formally arrested a prominent blogger who called for democratic change...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: High security on Tiananmen SquareDate:03/06/2009 China has boosted security in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, ahead of Thursday's anniversary of the killings in 1989...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Is China imposing more powerful version of Green Dam, called Blue Shield?Date:21/09/2009 'Reporters Without Borders is very worried about reports that Internet Service Providers in the southern province of Guangdong have installed a new filtering software called Landun (Blue Shield or Blue Dam in English) that is more powerful that its problematic predecessor Green Dam...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Leading Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, arrested over freedom charterDate:10/12/2008 A leading dissident who organised a charter signed by hundreds of Chinese thinkers, academics and writers calling for dramatic political and legal reforms was under arrest yesterday...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Leading free speech activist could get five years in prisonDate:30/06/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the subversion charge that was brought yesterday against Liu Xiaobo , a leading intellectual and free speech activitist who has been held without trial in an unknown location since 8 December...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: National Day triggers censorship, cyber attacks in ChinaDate:23/09/2009 The Chinese government should stop censoring Web sites and protect Internet users from cyber attacks in advance of upcoming National Day celebrations, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Physical attacks and harassment of journalists in Xinjiang and GuangdongDate:09/09/2009 At least four journalists have been physically attacked by security guards or police in the past eight days in China...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Sham Trial of Veteran Human Rights ActivistDate:23/11/2009 The conviction of veteran human rights activist Huang Qi on state secrets charges on November 23, 2009, demonstrates the Chinese government's intent to use the judicial apparatus to crush whistleblowers without regard to minimum standards of fairness, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CHINA: Tiananmen: It's raining censorshipDate:05/06/2009 It's hot in Beijing this time of year...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Tibet Lockdown Exacerbates TensionsDate:26/02/2009 China should open Tibetan areas to independent monitors and journalists as a means of diffusing ethnic tensions and preventing violence on the eve of a string of politically sensitive anniversaries, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Thursday, 26 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China: Well-known human rights blogger placed under house arrest in BeijingDate:21/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders was relieved to learn in a telephone interview with Mo Zhixu today that his house arrest has been lifted...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Google stops its censorship in China: Amnesty responseDate:13/01/2010 Reacting to media reports today that Google is to stop censoring Internet search results for users of its Google...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Group: Chinese democracy activist gets 10 yearsDate:17/10/2009 The founder of a Chinese group that challenged Communist rule with a call for multiparty democracy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a human rights group said Saturday...
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Saturday, 17 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Group: Founder of Tibetan Web site gets 15 yearsDate:16/11/2009 The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday...
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Monday, 16 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seeing red over green: China to install censorship softwareDate:15/06/2009 China's announcement that personal computers sold from July 1 must carry Internet-filtering software pre-installed by the manufacturer should be a flashing red light to journalists and defenders of free expression online...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tibet: Four Tibetan writers jailed for criticising Chinese governmentDate:05/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of the imprisonment of four Tibetan writers, which was reported yesterday by the Tibetan blogger Woeser and has been confirmed by other local blogs that have all subsequently been blocked (Aryatara, Ganglin, Sangge, Lmgo)...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Beijing must Open Door to Media Freedom, Says report on OlympicsDate:27/11/2008 Chinas Olympic Games performance took the world by storm, but it gets mixed reviews in a report issued today on official treatment of overseas journalists and media covering the Games...
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Thursday, 27 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China closes 90 websites as internet crackdown intensifiesDate:13/01/2009 China extended its internet crackdown today, announcing that it had closed more than 90 websites as part of its campaign to eradicate vulgar and pornographic material...
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China cracks down on Twitter, other social mediaDate:03/06/2009 Chinese authorities shut down blogs, Internet forums, and social media sites such as Twitter in an apparent attempt to stem online political discussion ahead of Thursday's 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989's Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China cracks down on 'vulgar' online searchesDate:06/01/2009 Chinese officials yesterday launched a crackdown on vulgar websites including Google and the country's leading search engine, Baidu...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China defies media cuts and closures with new newspaper launchDate:21/04/2009 These are gloomy times for the media, with cuts and closures around the world...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China dissident's PM book set for release amid jail threat Date:09/08/2010 BEIJING, Thursday 5 August 2010 (AFP) - A controversial book that criticises China's Premier Wen Jiabao will be published later this month even after police warned its dissident author that he could end up in jail, the publisher said Thursday...
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Monday, 9 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China fails to improve human rights in 2008Date:14/01/2009 China failed to enact democratic reforms in 2008 despite promises to do so, a private democracy watchdog organization said Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China jails writer for 15 years for 'endangering state security'Date:25/07/2010 Human rights groups have attacked the heavy sentence a Chinese court has imposed on a Uighur writer who posted critical articles online and spoke to foreign journalists after last year's riots in Xinjiang...
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Sunday, 25 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China must abandon censorshipDate:13/10/2010 Dear members of the standing committee of the National People's Congress: Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China Upholds Dissident Liu's Sentence Date:11/02/2010 A Chinese court upheld an 11-year prison sentence for writer Liu Xiaobo on subversion charges, prompting swift rebukes from the U...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
China, Palm Springs Film Festival clash over Tibet doc Date:07/01/2010 Chinese authorities have pulled two films from the Palm Springs International Film Festival ahead of screenings later this week of The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle For Freedom...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese authorities ban newspaperDate:01/10/2008 Chinese Authorities have issued a three-month ban on the China Business Post over allegations that the weekly publication convened media regulations...
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese censors take notice of Twitter-style blogsDate:02/08/2010 Chinese censors blocked access to Facebook and Twitter a year ago for fear the foreign sites could be used to sow political unrest...
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Monday, 2 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese Censorship Equals ProtectionismDate:07/01/2010 Beijing's methods to censor the Internet are becoming ever more repressive...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese Christians arrested for trying to hold open-air serviceDate:12/04/2011 Dozens of Christians who planned to hold an outdoor service in Beijing in protest at being made homeless from their place of worship have been arrested, in the latest Communist party crackdown on dissent and demonstrations...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens Date:06/02/2009 It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek alternative to the stultifying variety show beamed into hundreds of millions of living rooms on the eve of each Lunar New Year holiday...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Editor who led independent journalism in China resigns Date:10/11/2009 Independent journalism in China, never a robust phenomenon, has taken a body blow with the resignation from the country’s top investigative business magazine of its pioneering editor...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression Date:07/01/2010 When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and absence of due process rights...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tibetan writer detained, whereabouts unclear Date:02/04/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Public Security Bureau in Chinas Gansu province to disclose the whereabouts and legal status of Kunga Tsayang, a monk from the Amdo Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery who has written online political commentary...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Colombia: Constitutional Court finds criminal code article affecting slander and libel cases to be unconstitutionalDate:15/07/2009 Journalists and media outlets will no longer be subjected to criminal charges for libel and slander when they publicise truthful information about individuals who have been absolved of wrongdoing by the judicial system...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Colombia: Former intelligence officials leak list of news media and journalists whose phones were tappedDate:15/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for an investigation by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) following a new round of revelations about the spying on journalists and news media by the DAS, an intelligence agency that reports directly to the president’s office...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Colombia: Individual accused of murdering journalist captured in Cauca departmentDate:16/07/2009 The police have said that, on 8 July 2009, Arley Manquillo Rivera, alias Huracán, was captured in the department of Cauca, in southwestern Colombia...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Colombia: Journalist assaulted, threatened in Barranquilla Date:09/07/2009 At approximately 9:00 p...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Colombia: Risky return by TV current affairs programme after eight-month interruptionDate:17/09/2009 'Contravía, a TV current affairs programme that was forced off the air by threats eight months ago, will resume broadcasting on the Canal Uno public TV channel tomorrow...
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Thursday, 17 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Colombia: Radio reporter gunned down in Cauca department, probably in connection with his workDate:28/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities to shed all possible light on the murder of José Everardo Aguilar, a reporter for the privately-owned regional radio stations Radio Super and Bolívar Estéreo, who was gunned down in his home in El Bordo, a town in the southwestern department of Cauca, on 24 April...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
COLOMBIA: Journalist assaulted and threatenedDate:16/10/2008 On Sunday 5 October 2008, Mishelle Johana Muñoz, a journalist and announcer for the program Latina Estéreo in the city of Puerto Asís, Putumayo, was brutally beaten by a person who entered the facilities...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CONGO: Director-General deplores death of Congolese journalist Bruno OssébiDate:18/02/2009 The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today deplored the death of Bruno Ossébi in the Republic of Congo and urged a full inquiry into the circumstances of this tragic event...
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Congo: For RFI, static in KinshasaDate:04/08/2009 Like many radio listeners in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, I tune to Radio France Internationale (RFI) on 93...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Congo: Suspension lifted for independent television stationDate:17/07/2009 Canal Plus Bénédiction (CB Plus), a faith-based television station broadcast from Brazzaville, was reauthorised to broadcast on 3 July 2009 following a five-month suspension...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo: Government blocks French international radio broadcasts in BukavuDate:16/06/2009 Reporters Without Borders has strongly protested after the signal of Radio France International (RFI) was cut in Bukavu, capital city of Sud-Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo: Two radio stations shut down in DRCDate:01/04/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the southeastern Congolese city of Likasi to allow two private stations to return to the air...
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Wednesday, 1 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo: Government suspends French public radio broadcasts in northeastDate:07/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders wrote yesterday to communication and media minister Lambert Mendé condemning the government's decision to suspend local retransmission of the French public radio station Radio France Internationale (RFI) in the northeastern city of Bunia, and voicing concern at the possibility that the measure could be extended to the rest of the country...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo: Provincial governor orders community radio station's closureDate:14/10/2010 Journaliste en Danger (JED) condemns the unjustified closure of Radio Bandundu FM, a community station broadcasting in the town of Bandundu, capital of the province of the same name, located in western DR Congo...
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Thursday, 14 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DRC: “Bukavu, murder city”: investigation report into murders of journalists in the capital of Sud-KivuDate:30/03/2009 Reporters Without Borders today releases an investigation report into murders of journalists in Bukavu, the capital of Sud-Kivu at the easternmost extreme of the Democratic Republic of Congo, almost four months after the latest killing, that of Didace Namujimbo...
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Monday, 30 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DRC: Armed intruders threaten journalist in Nord-Kivu homeDate:16/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders wrote yesterday to the governor of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, Julien Paluku Kahongya, voicing deep concern about an armed attack on Radiotélévision Nationale Congolaise journalist Tuver Wundi Muhindo on 12 April in Goma, the provincial capital...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DRC: Death threats sent to three women journalists in BukavuDate:14/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders today voiced deep concern about anonymous death threats sent by text to three women journalists in crime-ridden Bukavu, capital of Sud-Kivu province in the east of the country...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DRC: Minister carries out threat to shut down French station’s broadcasts throughout countryDate:28/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders and Journalist in Danger (JED), its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, strongly condemn the government’s shutdown of local FM retransmission of the French public radio station Radio France Internationale (RFI) throughout the country since 26 July...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DRC: Radio Okapi reporter threatened by armed forces officerDate:16/10/2008 JED is extremely concerned about the safety of Radio Okapis Bunia correspondent Jean-Paul Basila, who has been the object of recent threats by officers with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC)...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Côte d’Ivoire: French photographer freed after being held for 16 months in AbidjanDate:07/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders hails the provisional release today of French photographer Jean-Paul Ney, who had been held in Abidjan since late December 2007 in connection with a conspiracy to overthrow the Ivorian government known as the Christmas in Abidjan affair...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Côte d’Ivoire: UN Media Tour Visits Joint UN Projects in Korhogo areaDate:09/04/2009 A group of about 10 journalists participating since Monday in a Media Tour organized by the UN system in Côte d'Ivoire had an opportunity on Tuesday to take a close look at the results of joint action by UN agencies in Korhogo (663 km north of Abidjan) and elsewhere in Les Savanes region...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ivory Coast / Examining judge orders release of French journalist but prosecutor appealsDate:24/03/2009 French freelance photographer Jean-Paul Ney, who has been held in custody for 15 months in connection with an alleged plot to undermine the country's peace process, told Reporters Without Borders today that the judge handling the case ordered his release four days ago...
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ivory Coast / Examining judge orders release of French journalist but prosecutor appealsDate:25/03/2009 French freelance photographer Jean-Paul Ney, who has been held in custody for 15 months in connection with an alleged plot to undermine the country's peace process, told Reporters Without Borders today that the judge handling the case ordered his release four days ago...
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ivory Coast newspapers accuse Gbagbo supportersDate:02/03/2011 Nine newspapers in Ivory Coast have closed down in protest over what they say is harassment by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo...
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CROATIA: Murder of publisher shocks governmentDate:26/10/2008 The car bomb murder of controversial publishing magnate, Ivo Pukanic, has shocked Croatians and prompted President Stipe Mesic on Friday to call an urgent meeting of the national security council...
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Sunday, 26 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Cuba: Authorities block websites, detain 26th journalistDate:21/09/2009 Two bloggers, Luis Felipe González Rojas and Yosvany Anzardo Hernández, were arrested and beaten by police in the eastern city of Holguín on 10 September and their computers were confiscated...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Cuba: Chronicling Cuba, bloggers offer fresh hopeDate:11/09/2009 'A vibrant, independent blogging culture is emerging in Cuba, of all places...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Cuba: 'Climate of fear' created by restrictions on free expressionDate:01/07/2010 In my opinion, the blogger movement in Cuba has become an excellent alternative form of free communication...
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Thursday, 1 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Cuba: Doctor and journalist arrested and taken to Havana jailDate:27/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders voiced concern at the arrest and detention on 21 July of dissident Darsi Ferrer, head of a health and human rights centre, saying it feared he faced a long period behind bars...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CUBA: Last journalist releasedDate:08/04/2011 Du Bouchet joins 18 other writers and independent journalists and librarians freed and forced into exile between July and September 2010...
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Friday, 8 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
First of 52 Cuban political prisoners leave CubaDate:13/07/2010 (Reuters) - The first six of 52 political prisoners to be freed in a deal with the Catholic Church left Cuba on Monday, bound for a new life as Cuban exiles in Spain...
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DENMARK: Gregorius Nekschots' Speech at the Danish Free Press SocietyDate:05/02/2009 Ladies and Gentlemen...
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Thursday, 5 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Denmark calls for fight for freedoms after cartoons rowDate:07/10/2008 Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on the European Union to strengthen its commitment to basic freedoms, and in particular freedom of expression, saying it remained under threat...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008Last Modified:
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DOMINICA: Consultation on Broadcast Act gets underway todayDate:11/03/2009 Media workers will assemble at the University of the West Indies today to host a public consultation entitled Freedom of Expression and the Right to Communicate...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Freedom of expression statistics confirm increase violence against the mediaDate:08/10/2008 Figures compiled by the National Union of Press Workers in respect of cases of threats, intimidation and abusive prosecutions against journalists in the Dominican Republic have confirmed a increase in violence against the media, with a totally of 32 journalists being physically attacked or threatened since the start of the year...
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CPJ to Correa: Release journalists jailed for defamationDate:11/12/2008 CPJ wrote to Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa today to urge him to denounce the jailing of two journalists for defamation and to bring his countrys press law in line with international standards of freedom of expression and rulings by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ecuador: President characterises newspaper as corrupt after it criticises the governmentDate:16/07/2009 On 11 July 2009, President Rafael Correa called the El Universo newspaper a travesty of a paper, the voice of the most pernicious political mafias in the history of Ecuador...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ecuador: Third investigation launched against Teleamazonas; newspaper editor threatenedDate:17/06/2009 On 9 June 2009, the president of the National Broadcasting and Television Council (CONARTEL), Antonio García, confirmed that a third investigation has been launched against the Teleamazonas television station...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PRESS RELEASE: OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Date:15/04/2011 The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression express its concern over the existence and application of aggravated criminal defamation or desacato and insult laws, as well as the existence and application of civil law provisions that may lead to the imposition of disproportionate sanctions against persons who have publicly expressed criticism of the most senior government officials in Ecuador...
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Friday, 15 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ecuador referendum tackles judges, media and bull-fightsDate:06/05/2011 Banning bull-fighting and regulating media content are two of the controversial issues Ecuadoreans are preparing to vote on in a referendum on 7 May...
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Friday, 6 May 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ecuador rejects media warnings on freedom of speechDate:11/11/2009 The Ecuadorian government on Tuesday rejected warnings by the Inter-American Press Society (SIP) of aggressions against the freedom of speech in the country...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ecuadoran president threatens action against critical mediaDate:05/06/2009 The opening of two government investigations into private television network Teleamazonas and threats of legal action by Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa against critical media outlets are an attempt by the government to stifle dissent, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT: 37 Ifex Members Call for End to Jailing of Journalists Under Criminal Defamation LawsDate:01/10/2008 37 International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) members have issued an appeal calling for an end to the imprisonment of journalists under criminal defamation laws in Egypt...
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT: Army calls protests 'freedom of speech, ' won't use force to dispel demonstratorsDate:03/02/2011 The Egyptian army recognizes mass protests consuming the country as the people's legitimate right to freedom of expression and will not use force against the demonstrators, an army spokesman said in a statement read on Egyptian state television Monday night local time in Egypt...
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Thursday, 3 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Blogger’s 3-Year Sentence a Blow to Free Speech Date:14/04/2011 The military court's sentencing of the blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in prison is a serious setback to freedom of expression in post-Mubarak Egypt, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Thursday, 14 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast LawDate:12/02/2009 ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information have serious concerns with the draft Broadcast Law released by the Egyptian authorities...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Court of Appeal upholds acquittal of ANHRI director, two bloggersDate:06/07/2009 The court of appeal in Dokki, Giza upheld on 30 June 2009 the decision made on 31 December 2008 acquitting bloggers Alaa and Manal and ANHRI Executive Director Gamal Eid of the charges of libel and insult...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Court set to hear appeal in case in against Cairo News CompanyDate:16/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the outcome of an appeal in the case of the Cairo News Company (CNC), which was prosecuted for broadcasting film of demonstrations on 6 April 2008...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Court upholds heavy fine against bloggerDate:29/05/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and Mosawah Association for Human Rights in Port Said expressed their strong condemnation over the unjust ruling issued on 26 May 2009 by the al-Zohour Court of Appeal in Port Said, which upheld an earlier decision issued on 20 January...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Editor sentenced to six months behind barsDate:13/07/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reiterates its deep contempt for the arrest of Yaser Barakat, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Mogaz...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Egypt bitter about UNESCO voteDate:24/09/2009 Reporting from Cairo - Conspiracy theories hummed through Egypt's media and political elite Wednesday as Culture Minister Farouk Hosni returned home from Paris after facing accusations of anti-Semitism and losing a bitter fight to become the first Arab to lead the United Nations' cultural organization...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Egyptian censorship advocate is candidate to be UNESCO director generalDate:14/09/2009 Negotiations are getting under way in Paris to select a new director general for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to replace Koichiro Matsuura of Japan, who has held the position for 10 years...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Egyptian rights group condemns Date:26/01/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has condemned the fine handed out by an Egyptian court against blogger Mohamed Mabrouk that includes a 2, 500 Egyptian pounds as well as a further 40, 000 Egyptian pounds awarded in compensation to Trust Chemicals Company...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Local report documents violations against 43 internet usersDate:30/04/2009 The prominent Egyptian NGO Hisham Mubarak Center for Law (HMCL) issued a report, titled Egypt on the Crossroad …2008, documenting the status of freedom of expression in the country during the year 2008, including the detention and harassment of bloggers...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Police harass journalist and his familyDate:17/07/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemns the organized attacks led by police officers against Alaa Al Gamel, a reporter for the weekly Sout Al Ouma...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Revoke Ban on Strikes, DemonstrationsDate:28/03/2011 (New York) – The Egyptian cabinet’s announcement on March 24, 2011, of a new law banning strikes and demonstrations that impede the work of public institutions violates international law protections for free assembly and should be reversed immediately, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 28 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT: Rights organisation rejects media blockade in trialDate:18/11/2008 Egyptian human rights organisation has denounced decision of president of criminal court in South Cairo to throw media out of courtroom last Sunday, blocking reporting proceedings of trial of top tycoon accused of killing a Lebanese singer Susan Tamim...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: State security police force Internet café owners to report on customers visiting Date:12/06/2009 On 10 June 2009, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reported that State Security Police are violating the right to privacy by spying on Internet users in Egypt, searching for individuals who exercise their right to express their political views online peacefully...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Tough Measures Used to Gag Media in Run-Up to ElectionsDate:26/11/2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns an increase in measures to control news and information and suppress freedom of expression in the run-up to the parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 November...
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Friday, 26 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Young blogger freed after being held and mistreated for seven weeksDate:02/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders hails the release of cyber-dissident Dia'Eddin Gad, who was arrested at his home in the Nile delta province of Gharbiyah on 6 February because of the views he had expressed in his blog...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Internet : a weapon on mass revolution ?Date:06/04/2009 Since 6 April 2008, many Egyptian Internet users have been tirelessly communicating a message that their society must change...
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Monday, 6 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Elections monitor: Media restrictions; record campaign spendingDate:25/10/2010 The Egyptian government’s recent decision to shut down several satellite channels and place further restrictions on the media has raised domestic and international concern over freedom of expression in the run-up to parliamentary elections late next month ...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT – Human Rights organizations praise pardon for editorDate:07/10/2008 The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights have praised the pardon issued by Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak for outspoken Egyptian editor Ibrahim Eissa, who was sentenced last month to two months imprisonment for reporting on the president's health...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt court cancels restrictions imposed on SMS news alertsDate:29/11/2010 Cairo - An Egyptian court overruled on Saturday a decision by the telecommunications authority to impose restrictions on media companies that send out news alerts to cell phones...
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Monday, 29 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt cuts off internet accessDate:28/01/2011 Egypt appears to have cut off almost all access to the internet from inside and outside the country from late on Thursday night, in a move that has concerned observers of the protests that have been building in strength through the week...
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Friday, 28 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egyptian authorities must allow peaceful protest and the right to strikeDate:30/04/2011 The Egyptian authorities must abolish a recent law criminalizing peaceful protests and strikes, Amnesty International said ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests for International Workers’ Day in Cairo’s Tahrir Square...
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Saturday, 30 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egyptian court overturns journalists' prison termsDate:02/02/2009 Four independent Egyptian editors convicted of defaming the president and his close associates have had their yearlong prison sentences overturned by an appeals court, state newspapers reported Sunday...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egyptian Security Forces Arrest and Beat Peaceful ProtestorsDate:07/04/2010 Amnesty International has condemned arrests, detentions and violence meted out against peaceful protesters in Egypt, after more than 90 people were detained in Cairo for taking part in demonstrations calling for political reform on Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Lara Logan of CBS attacked by Egyptian mob in CairoDate:16/02/2011 A senior CBS correspondent is recovering in hospital in the US after she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the Egyptian protests, the US network says...
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
El Salvador: Filmmaker who documented Salvadoran gangs is slain Date:04/09/2009 The bullet-ridden body of journalist Christian Poveda, whose new documentary on a violent Salvadoran street gang was scheduled for wide release this month, was discovered Wednesday afternoon just north of the capital, San Salvador, according to local and international press reports...
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Friday, 4 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
El Salvador: Members of a Community Radio Station and a Human Right Defender Receive and Face Kidnapping Attempts Date:07/08/2009 'ARTICLE 19 and its national partners, the Human Rights Institute at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (IDHUCA), the National Journalists Association of El Salvador (APES), and the Association of Radio Stations and Participatory Radio Programmes (ARPAS) condemns the recent threats against community journalists and a human rights defender in El Salvador...
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Friday, 7 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
El Salvador: Members of a Community Radio Station and a Human Right Defender Receive Death Threats and Face Kidnapping Attempts Date:10/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 and its national partners, the Human Rights Institute at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (IDHUCA), the National Journalists Association of El Salvador (APES), and the Association of Radio Stations and Participatory Radio Programmes (ARPAS) condemns the recent threats against community journalists and a human rights defender in El Salvador...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
El Salvador: UNESCO head speaks out against killing of journalist in El SalvadorDate:11/09/2009 The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding press freedom today condemned the killing of a Franco-Spanish journalist and documentary film-maker in El Salvador...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
El Salvador’s High Court Deals Blow to Press FreedomDate:27/09/2010 SAN SALVADOR – El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled that the media and television station owners, editors and managers may be brought to trial for slander, injury or defamation in a decision interpreted as a blow against press freedom ...
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Monday, 27 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
England: Politics stage Fringe comebackDate:26/08/2009 The largest arts festival in the world may be known primarily for its comedy or its big spectacle productions, but increasingly the Edinburgh Fringe is building a reputation as a place to put politics on the stage...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
LIVERPOOL, UK: Protesters angry over city clashesDate:16/10/2008 Campaigners claim they are being denied free speech after police confiscated their city centre stalls and made arrests...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Media law: Government to examine time limit on web libelDate:12/02/2009 Justice secretary Jack Straw has pledged to take a good look at a 160-year-old legal precedent that allows people to sue publishers for online libel without any time limit...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Media law: Government to examine time limit on web libelDate:12/02/2009 Justice secretary Jack Straw has pledged to take a good look at a 160-year-old legal precedent that allows people to sue publishers for online libel without any time limit...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Peaceful protest or direct action: where to draw the line?Date:12/11/2010 Some twats have just decided to spoil it for the rest of us...
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Friday, 12 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Privacy: the new law will freeze the lifeblood of the mediaDate:03/04/2009 A person's home and family life is private...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The words you read next will be your last: Because I'm going to strangle every single one of you ...Date:15/11/2010 The moment I've finished typing this, I'm going to walk out the door and set about strangling every single person on the planet...
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Monday, 15 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackersDate:14/12/2010 He is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback...
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Tuesday, 14 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
English libel laws threatening freedom of speech, says Swedish scientistDate:12/03/2010 Francisco Lacerda, Professor of Phonetics at Stockholm University, questioned the effectiveness of the voice risk analysis (VRA) system that is being trialled by the Government as part of a crackdown on welfare fraud...
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Friday, 12 March 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Equatorial Guinea journalist under arrestDate:19/06/2009 A journalist in Equatorial Guinea, facing a criminal libel charge over a flawed story, was imprisoned on Wednesday, according to local journalists...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Equatorial Guinea journalist under arrestDate:23/06/2009 A journalist in Equatorial Guinea, facing a criminal libel charge over a flawed story, was imprisoned on Wednesday, according to local journalists...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Eritrea: “Refugee at last” – Eritrean journalist Tedros Abraham’s tale of how he got to Norway Date:16/09/2009 'After two years in exile and journeying thousands of miles, Eritrean journalist and academic Tedros Abraham has posted an account of his odyssey online...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ERITREA: Article 19 calls for an end to arbitrariness and impunityDate:11/12/2008 As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many Eritrean journalists and political opponents are still detained without charges for more than seven (7) years...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Eritrea: Independent radio station for Eritreans begins broadcasting from ParisDate:15/06/2009 Radio Erena (”Our Eritrea”), a Tigrinya-language station broadcasting by satellite to Eritrea, began operating today in Paris, five days ahead of World Refugee Day...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ERITREA: Long held in secret Eritrean jail, journalist reported in hospitalDate:06/02/2009 Eritrean authorities must disclose the medical condition and care being provided to jailed journalist Dawit Isaac, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today following unofficial reports saying that he was hospitalized...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Eritrea: September 18, 2001, in Eritrea: A memory that never fadesDate:21/09/2009 It feels like it happened just yesterday...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Eritrea: World’s biggest prison for journalists eight years after September 2001 round-upsDate:21/09/2009 Eritrea now has at least 30 journalists and two media workers behind bars, which means that, exactly eight years after the round-ups of 18 September 2001 that put an end to free expression, it has achieved parity with China and Iran in terms of the number of journalists detained...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Eritrea / Swedish newspapers call for release of journalist held since 2001Date:30/03/2009 Reporters Without Borders supports the call for the release of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaac that two Swedish dailies published on their front page today...
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Monday, 30 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Long held in secret Eritrean jail, journalist reported in hospitalDate:06/02/2009 ASMARA, Eritrea, February 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ - Eritrean authorities must disclose the medical condition and care being provided to jailed journalist Dawit Isaac, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today following unofficial reports saying that he was hospitalized...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Long held in secret Eritrean jail, journalist reported in hospitalDate:06/02/2009 ASMARA, Eritrea, February 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ - Eritrean authorities must disclose the medical condition and care being provided to jailed journalist Dawit Isaac, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today following unofficial reports saying that he was hospitalized...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Long held in secret Eritrean jail, journalist reported in hospitalDate:06/02/2009 'ASMARA, Eritrea, February 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Eritrean authorities must disclose the medical condition and care being provided to jailed journalist Dawit Isaac, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today following unofficial reports saying that he was hospitalized...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ethiopia: Country Moves to Strengthen Anti-Terrorism Law Media Warner Not to Serve Terrorist PurposesDate:03/06/2009 The Ethiopian government is working on draft law providing for a tougher punishment of individuals involved in terrorist activity...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ethiopia: Ethiopia opposition says its members being jailedDate:11/09/2009 A coalition of opposition parties accused the Ethiopian authorities on Thursday of arresting some of its members on trumped up charges to stop them running in an election scheduled for next May...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ethiopia: Information Without InterferenceDate:30/04/2010 Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets, ' fretted Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, as he summed up the informative powers of an independent press...
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Friday, 30 April 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ethiopia: Proposed counterterrorism bill violates free speechDate:06/07/2009 Ethiopia's draft counterterrorism law could punish political speech and peaceful protest as terrorist acts and encourage unfair trials if enacted, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ETHIOPIA: Zero tolerance for regimes holding prisoners of conscienceDate:30/01/2009 Absolutely nothing saddens me more than thinking of Birtukan Mideksa back in jail for exercising her right to freedom of expression, more so as leader of a popular political party, UDJP...
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Friday, 30 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ethiopia - Sudden, shocking “explanation” on press registration Date:17/02/2009 …In addition, - according to article 6, proclamation 590/2008 - an individual assigned as an editor should be other than the owner(s) of the press...
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ethiopian Newspaper Shuts Down, Editors FleeDate:06/12/2009 One of Ethiopia's leading weekly newspapers has shut down and its senior staff left the country in the face of what they say is a government campaign of intimidation and black propaganda...
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Sunday, 6 December 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji: Government arrests two journalists in another “warning shot” for press freedomDate:12/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of two journalists, Shelvin Chand and Dionisia Turaganbeci, under emergency regulations for writing a negative article about Commodore Frank Bainimarama's military government for the FijiLive news website...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji: PFF warns global media conference to watch out for government interferenceDate:15/06/2009 Regional media freedom organization, the Pacific Freedom Forum, has warned the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) to keep its agenda free from interference by Fiji's military regime in the lead-up to its July 2009 conference...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji clampdown on free speech continues Date:07/10/2010 Regional media freedom watchdog the Pacific Freedom Forum is concerned over the increasing confusion spread by Fiji’s regime over the departure from Fiji Times of its long-serving editor Netani Rika...
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Thursday, 7 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji interim regime reorganises media rulesDate:04/11/2008 Fiji's interim government says the work on the media promulgation is well underway and government expects to have a draft document ready next month...
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji media law to be completed soon Date:27/02/2009 The formulation of a law that will regulate the Fiji media is expected to be completed soon...
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Friday, 27 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji media law to be completed soon Date:27/02/2009 The formulation of a law that will regulate the Fiji media is expected to be completed soon...
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Friday, 27 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji regime asked to safeguard freedom of expressionDate:04/11/2008 A regional media group, the Pacific Freedom Forum, has called on Fijis interim government to respect and safeguard the right to freedom of expression as enshrined in the constitution...
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Fiji strips licences from broadcasters Date:20/11/2009 THE military-installed Fiji government has removed all broadcasting licences and given Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum the absolute power to renew or redistribute them without any compensation to those whose licences are stripped...
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Friday, 20 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gabon: Gabonese media under attack since electionDate:04/09/2009 Five journalists and a TV station covering Gabon's disputed presidential election, which has already been marred by media censorship, have been attacked since Wednesday, according to local journalists and news reports...
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Friday, 4 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gabon: Media coverage of presidential election likely to be heavily restrictedDate:01/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the array of restrictions that the Gabonese authorities have imposed on journalists in the run-up to the 30 August presidential election...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gabon election marred by media censorshipDate:02/09/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Gabonese government censorship and restrictions on media coverage of Sunday's presidential elections, including denials of accreditation to at least four international journalists...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gabon targets media over coverage of Bongo's healthDate:28/05/2009 'The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the government of Gabon's crackdown on independent media coverage of President Omar Bongo's hospitalization and potential succession issues...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gabon targets media over coverage of Bongo's healthDate:28/05/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the government of Gabon's crackdown on independent media coverage of President Omar Bongo's hospitalization and potential succession issues...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Call to drop sedition charges against journalistsDate:27/07/2009 A Paris-based media group has called on the Gambian authorities to drop charges against seven journalists charged with sedition, notes a report on the News24 site...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Disappeared journalist should be released on 'Freedom Day'Date:23/07/2010 As Gambia celebrates ‘Freedom Day’ today (22 July), Amnesty International is calling on the Gambian authorities to release journalist Ebrima Manneh...
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Friday, 23 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Freedom Of Expression Rapporteur On The GambiaDate:22/05/2009 The Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa at the African Commission on Human and People’s Right (ACHPR), Commissioner Madam Pansy Tlakula, indicated, in her activity report, submitted to the Commission’s 45th ordinary session, the Commission’s concerns on the harassment and intimidation of the independent media in The Gambia...
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Gambia: Six journalists condemned to two years in Mile 2 prisonDate:11/08/2009 Amnesty International today expressed dismay at yesterday’s sentencing of six Gambian journalists, including three executive members of the Gambian Press Union, to terms in prison...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Gambian court convicts six journalists of seditionDate:10/08/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the highly politicized court verdict against six independent journalists today in the capital of the Gambia, Banjul...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Newly freed, Gambian columnist describes jailDate:09/09/2009 'On an ordinary Friday, Sarata Jabbi-Dibba, a reporter in the West African nation of Gambia, publishes her weekly column on women’s issues, “She She She, ” in the only independent daily newspaper here, The Point...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Only the Gambian president has press freedomDate:03/08/2009 On July 22, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh once again went after journalists in an interview on the country's only state-run television station...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: President’s threats leave journalists no room for free expressionDate:29/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the seven journalists, all members of the Gambia Press Union, who are being tried for criticising President Yahya Jammeh...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Seven journalists re-arrested in the Gambia Date:06/07/2009 'We issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Seven journalists re-arrested in the Gambia Date:06/07/2009 'We issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Seven journalists re-arrested in the Gambia Date:06/07/2009 We issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: UN Declares 'Chief Manneh's Detention Illegal' Date:20/11/2009 The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that The Gambia's arrest and continued detention of Chief Ebrima Manneh is unlawful under international law...
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Friday, 20 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: Amnesty International demands freedom for GambiansDate:17/07/2009 Freedom Day, which takes place on 22 July 2009, is a national holiday in Gambia...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: ARTICLE 19 Calls on the Gambian Government to Respect Freedom of ExpressionDate:04/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 issued an oral statement at the recent 45th session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHR), expressing the organisation’s concern about continuing violations of freedom of expression in The Gambia...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: ECOWAS Court dismisses government's objections over jurisdiction in case of tortured journalistDate:09/07/2009 On 30 June 2009, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court, hearing the case of torture brought by Gambian journalist Musa Saidykhan against operatives of the Gambia's notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA), dismissed preliminary objections raised by the Gambian government, the defendant in the case...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: Journalists and Gambia Press Union ExecutiveDate:19/06/2009 Seven journalists and members of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) Executive have been held without charge by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) since being called for questioning on 15 June 2009...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
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The Gambia: Regional group asked to intercede on behalf of missing journalistDate:24/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders has written to Dr...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia / Adjournment of trials facing editor of the daily The PointDate:19/03/2009 Editor of the daily The Point, Pap Saine, yesterday had two trials in which he is facing charges adjourned to later in the month...
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Thursday, 19 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia must account for missing journalist Ebrima MannehDate:15/04/2009 Gambian authorities must authoritatively account for the whereabouts, health, and legal status of journalist Chief Ebrimah Manneh, left, who was taken into government custody by security agents in July 2006, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambian journalist under arrest over false storyDate:15/06/2009 The editor of a private newspaper in the Gambia has been in police custody since Wednesday because of a story that falsely reported the sacking of two government officials, according to local journalists...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambian journalists freed on bail in sedition caseDate:24/06/2009 Seven Gambian journalists charged with sedition last week for criticizing the president have been freed on bail, while two other detainees were released without charge, local journalists and the press union told CPJ today...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven Gambian journalists charged with sedition, another arrestedDate:23/06/2009 A magistrate in the Gambian capital, Banjul, today charged seven journalists with sedition for criticizing President Yahya Jammeh’s televised comments about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara, their defense lawyer said...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven Gambian press leaders arrested over Hydara reactionDate:17/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Gambia's national security agency to release seven journalists it arrested on Monday...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Six Gambia Press Union journalists freed on bailDate:08/07/2009 The six journalists who were returned to Banjul’s Mile Two prison on 3 July were released again this morning on bail of 400, 000 dalassi (10, 800 euros)...
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tenth Gambian Journalist Seized in June is Released on Bail Date:30/06/2009 A tenth Gambian journalist arrested since the government’s June 15 crackdown on the press was released Wednesday after two days of confinement in a Banjul cell...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Uphold free expression, Gambia toldDate:24/06/2009 The African Union Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on Tuesday urged Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to uphold the right to free expression after a recent media crackdown...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Georgia: Free-Speech Debate Swirls in Tbilisi over Patriarch ParodyDate:02/11/2009 The Georgian government is conducting an investigation into a series of video clips posted on Facebook that insult the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II...
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Monday, 2 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Georgia: Russian journalist faces forgery charges in GeorgiaDate:21/09/2009 'New York, September 18, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Georgian authorities to drop criminal charges against the Tbilisi bureau chief for the Russian news agency RIA Novosti and allow him to work without fear of harassment...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
GERMANY: IPI concerned at draft legal amendments that threaten protection of sources in Germany Date:01/10/2008 The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, has expressed deep concern at a set of draft amendments to the German Criminal Code that threaten journalists' right to maintain the confidentiality of their sources...
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Germany: More German Journalists Join the Battle to Protect Confidentiality of SourcesDate:24/04/2009 A group of German journalists, lawyers and doctors today filed a complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court against a controversial law that greatly increases the power of the police to conduct secret surveillance of citizens...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Bundesbank sacks 'racist' board member By Tony Paterson in BerlinDate:03/09/2010 Germany's central bank agreed to dismiss a controversial board member yesterday amid a growing public outcry over his vitriolic criticism of Muslims and Jews in a new bestselling book that has been widely condemned as racist...
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Friday, 3 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
German FM raises human rights and Tibet issues during China visitDate:18/01/2010 The Tibet Post International-German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Beijing on Friday...
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Monday, 18 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
German press freedom award for Mexican journalist and Iranian activist Date:27/08/2010 Pedro Matias Arrazola and Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh win award for their extraordinary efforts to defend freedom of expression and freedom of the press The 2010 Johann Philipp Palm Prize for freedom of expression and the press will go to Mexican journalist Pedro Matias Arrazola and Iranian human rights activist Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, reports the Latin American Herald Tribune, citing Spanish news agency EFE...
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Friday, 27 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
German press freedom award for Mexican journalist and Iranian activist Date:27/08/2010 …
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Friday, 27 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Germany's Merkel voices concerns over media freedom in Ukraine at president Yanukovych's visitDate:31/08/2010 Germany's chancellor urged Ukraine's president Monday to strengthen media freedoms in his country, while stressing the potential for further co-operation between the two nations on energy issues...
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Two German reporters charged with espionage in IranDate:18/11/2010 Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday that two German reporters for Bild am Sonntag will be charged with espionage, according to international news reports...
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Thursday, 18 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ghana's Ashanti NPP says primaries will be free and open Date:20/07/2010 Kumasi, July 16, GNA - The Ashanti Regional Executive of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has calmed any nagging anxiety about the fairness of the party's up-coming presidential primaries in the region, saying, adequate measures had been put in place to make the poll transparent and credible...
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Stakeholders agree framework to secure freedom of expression for citizens Date:05/10/2009 Accra, Oct...
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Monday, 5 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Stakeholders agree framework to secure freedom of expression for citizens Date:05/10/2009 …
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Monday, 5 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Guatemala: TV reporter shot dead in Guatemala City, cameraman badly injuredDate:02/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by the death of TV reporter Rolando Santis in a shooting attack yesterday in Guatemala City, in which his cameraman, Juan Antonio de León Villatoro, was seriously injured...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Guatemala: ARTICLE 19 calls on President to Annul Resolution Which Violates Access to Public Information LawDate:26/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 is concerned about the publication of a recent resolution by President Álvaro Colom that classifies as confidential, for a period of five years, files related to the communication of the Presidency, and between other public and private bodies...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
GUATEMALA: Journalist threatened near his homeDate:16/10/2008 RSF today voiced its alarm after investigative journalist and press freedom activist José Pelicó received a death threat from submachine gun-toting individuals near his home...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: After Honduran coup, reporters detained, signals blockedDate:03/07/2009 Honduran military personnel briefly detained seven journalists, temporarily shut down several local broadcasters, and intermittently blocked the broadcast signals of international news channels in the aftermath of the weekend coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Armed men storm online daily's officesDate:10/06/2009 At 1:30 p...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Assailants force two Honduran broadcasters off the airDate:26/08/2009 Masked assailants on Monday stormed a radio station and a television outlet critical of the country's interim government, forcing the broadcasters off the air in the latest attack on the Honduran media...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: censored Radio Globo quadruples listeners by going onlineDate:01/10/2009 It seemed like a typical day at Radio Globo in Tegucigalpa, which supports ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya...
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Thursday, 1 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: censored Radio Globo quadruples listeners by going onlineDate:01/10/2009 …
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Thursday, 1 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Constraints on press freedom must be lifted in Honduras, says UNESCO chiefDate:17/07/2009 The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for restrictions on press freedom to be lifted in Honduras, where President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales was ousted by the military last month...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Early Warning Signs of Impending CrisisDate:30/07/2009 An ARTICLE 19 delegation, recently returned from Honduras, reports serious abuses of human rights and freedom of expression in that country since the political coup which occurred on 28 June 2009...
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Thursday, 30 July 2009Last Modified:
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Honduras: Free expression in jeopardy following coupDate:02/07/2009 Following the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya on 28 June, the new authorities have harassed and briefly detained journalists, interfered with several broadcast media outlets and imposed a 48-hour curfew, putting free expression at risk, say IFEX member in Honduras Comité por la Libre Expresíon (C-Libre), the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and other IFEX members...
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Thursday, 2 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Gag on media getting steadily tighter in month since coupDate:05/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the de facto government’s selective censorship of news since the 28 June coup d’état...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: In new wave of violence against media, de facto regime “reaps what it sowed”Date:21/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the new wave of violence against the media that took place last week, while Honduras appeared to be further than ever from resolving the crisis resulting from President Manuel Zelaya’s removal in a coup on 28 June...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
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Honduras: International community urged to demand an end to news media lockdown by de facto authoritiesDate:27/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders calls on the international community to press the Honduran de facto government to stop controlling news coverage and stop discriminating against media that are critical of the 28 June coup...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
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Honduras: Media in coup stormDate:06/08/2009 Police attacked Honduran and foreign journalists in Tegucigalpa on 30 July while dispersing demonstrators protesting against the 28 June coup d’état, the Honduras Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre) has reported...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
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Honduras: New wave of censorship in response to deposed president’s returnDate:24/09/2009 Ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s reappearance in Tegucigalpa has prompted a new wave of censorship of the national and international press...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
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Honduras: No End in Sight for CrisisDate:24/09/2009 Ousted President Zelaya’s return to Honduras supported by the Brazilian government signals a growing regional crisis and a worsening human rights situation...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Radio America journalist killedDate:07/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that journalist Gabriel Fino Noriega, the local correspondent for the national radio station Radio América, was gunned down on 3 July 2009 in San Juan Pueblo, in the Caribbean coast province of Atlántida...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
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HONDURAS: Radio station correspondent gunned down in provincial cityDate:02/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn of the murder of reporter Rafael Munguía on 31 March in the northwestern city of San Pedro Sula, where he was the correspondent of the national, privately-owned radio station Radio Cadena Voces (RCV)...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Respect press freedom, IAPA again urges HondurasDate:07/07/2009 The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today repeated its call to the new Honduran authorities for full respect for press freedom...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras: Venezuelan journalists leave Honduras after harassmentDate:16/07/2009 A group of Venezuelan journalists with the regional television network Telesur and the state-owned station Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) left Honduras on Sunday after being detained and harassed in the capital, Tegucigalpa...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
HONDURAS: Zelaya's Delegates Urge OAS to Unblock TalksDate:20/10/2009 The talks in Honduras have stalled over the question of reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya, whose delegates have called on the Organisation of American States (OAS) to take steps to keep the negotiations from failing...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Honduras Crisis, Three Months Out: Is Micheletti's Support Unraveling?Date:29/09/2009 …
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009Last Modified:
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The Honduras Crisis, Three Months Out: Is Micheletti's Support Unraveling?Date:29/09/2009 It appears that Roberto Micheletti, the de facto president of Honduras, overplayed his hand on Sunday when he announced a decree that closed down two media outlets (Radio Globo and Canal 36), dissolved the right of assembly and permitted police to detain suspects without warrents...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras radio journalists dealt further blow to freedom of expressionDate:27/10/2009 Amnesty International has denounced an attack on the freedom of the press in Honduras, following the cancellation of three radio programmes by a popular radio station’s managers who cited a controversial presidential decree to justify their action...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras radio journalists dealt further blow to freedom of expressionDate:27/10/2009 Amnesty International has denounced an attack on the freedom of the press in Honduras, following the cancellation of three radio programmes by a popular radio station’s managers who cited a controversial presidential decree to justify their action...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras radio journalists dealt further blow to freedom of expressionDate:27/10/2009 Amnesty International has denounced an attack on the freedom of the press in Honduras, following the cancellation of three radio programmes by a popular radio station’s managers who cited a controversial presidential decree to justify their action...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Honduras radio journalists dealt further blow to freedom of expressionDate:27/10/2009 Amnesty International has denounced an attack on the freedom of the press in Honduras, following the cancellation of three radio programmes by a popular radio station’s managers who cited a controversial presidential decree to justify their action...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Skewed coverage has followed Honduran coupDate:09/07/2009 The ongoing political crisis following the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 has damaged the press freedom climate in Honduras...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Washington decided freedom of expression by the Honduras people was illegalDate:29/06/2009 In Latin America and the Caribbean, the US imperialists in most instances control these institutions...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
HONG KONG: Complaints filed against a local newspaper and journalists over 'super bug' report Date:09/04/2009 The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has filed separate complaints against a local newspaper, a reporter and the newspapers editor-in-chief before the Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA) and the Hong Kong Press Council (HKPC) over its report on an infectious disease, super bug...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Official: Hong Kong continues to protect free flow of information, freedom of expressionDate:03/11/2008 A top commerce and economic official of Hong Kong pledged here Monday that the government of the special administrative region will continue to protect the free flow of information and freedom of expression...
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Monday, 3 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:29/06/2009 In line with a joint response agreed by Member States with the EU Presidency, State Secretary and Political Director Gábor Iklódy summoned the Ambassador to Budapest of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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Monday, 29 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Hungary: Much-delayed media law reaches dead end in ParliamentDate:17/04/2009 Any hope of enacting new media legislation in Hungary faded away on Wednesday as the main opposition party Fidesz withdrew its support for a bill based on a compromise by the countrys five parliamentary parties...
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Friday, 17 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Hungary passes contentious new media lawDate:22/12/2010 Hungary's parliament approved a contentious new law Tuesday that will greatly expand the state's power to monitor and penalize private media, drawing protests from opposition parties and civil society...
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sweeping new media law threatens freedom of expression in HungaryDate:29/12/2010 Hungary’s newly adopted media law will impose potentially wide-ranging restrictions on freedom of expression, Amnesty International warned today...
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iceland aiming to be a global press freedom havenDate:19/08/2010 REYKJAVIK ; After Iceland's near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from around the globe by creating the world's most far-reaching freedom of information legislation...
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Thursday, 19 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iceland leads the world in giving journalists freedom to reportDate:28/06/2010 Iceland is on the verge of giving investigative journalists greater protection from legal interference than exists almost anywhere in the world...
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Monday, 28 June 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Icelandic Law creates Press Freedom HavenDate:18/06/2010 June 17, 2010, a new legislation was passed in Iceland that brings with the hope of better protection for the freedom of the press around the world...
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Friday, 18 June 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDONESIA: Alert for Criminal Defamation on Indonesian E - LawDate:12/01/2009 The Advocacy Team for Freedom of Expression in Indonesia, acting for and on behalf of Edy Cahyono, Nenda Inasa Fadhilah, Amrie Hakim, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Alliance of Independent Journalists, and Legal Aid Center for Press apply the constitutional review petition against Section 27 sentence (3) Law No 11 Year 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transaction...
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Monday, 12 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDONESIA: Crackdown on freedom of expression in MalukuDate:17/12/2008 At least 70 people have been arrested or imprisoned for peaceful pro-independence activities in the province of Maluku, Indonesia over the last two years, Amnesty International revealed today...
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia: IFJ welcomes court's rejection of libel caseDate:20/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes a decision by the South Jakarta Supreme Court to reject a libel suit against local newspaper Koran Tempo by Islamic Troop commander Munarman...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia: Libel sentence ignores press law, says press council Date:20/07/2009 Indonesia's Press Council expressed dissatisfaction with the East Jakarta District Court's decision on 15 July 2009 convicting two businessmen of defaming a property giant due to a complaint letter they posted in several newspapers...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia: Local police chief files Rp 10-billion civil defamation suit against Indonesian media advocateDate:20/04/2009 A provincial police chief in Indonesia recently filed a Rp 10-billion civil defamation suit against media activist Jupriadi Upi Asmaradhana on top of the criminal defamation charges earlier lodged against him...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDONESIA: Media advocate charged with libel and defamationDate:13/11/2008 A freedom of expression advocate was charged with libel and defamation by the South Sulawesi Regional Police Office in Indonesia...
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Thursday, 13 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDONESIA: Minister Tries to Play Down Bloggers’ Concerns Over Electronic Media LawDate:17/02/2009 Local media and bloggers who transmit ideas electronically should not feel that their freedom of expression is under threat from the controversial 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions Law, Communication and Information Technology Minister Muhammad Nuh said on Monday...
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
INDONESIA: Police urged to back freedom of expressionDate:19/11/2008 Artists, journalists and activists from non-governmental groups in Surakarta on Tuesday urged the police to guarantee freedom of expression in relation to art and journalistic works and to prevent anyone or any group from restricting them...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia: Press Freedom Victim of Defamation Law’s ‘Inverted Logic, ’ Journalists Say Date:07/05/2009 In what has been labelled a major blow to freedom of expression, the Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected a request for judicial review filed by a group of bloggers and media rights advocates against articles in the Electronic Information and Transaction Law that allow the filing of defamation charges in cases involving electronically transmitted or distributed information...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia: Rioting Indonesian soldiers attack journalists, confiscate equipmentDate:30/04/2009 Several Indonesian journalists are in danger in Jayapura in Papua province after hundreds of soldiers in the area rioted on 29 April...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia: Time magazine wins appeal in IndonesiaDate:16/04/2009 Time magazine won an appeal in Indonesias Supreme Court on Thursday against 93 million dollars in libel damages awarded to late dictator Suharto...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesia under fire for upholding scripture over rightsDate:20/04/2010 Human rights groups pilloried Indonesia's constitutional court Tuesday after it upheld a 1965 blasphemy law, ruling in favour of orthodox religions over basic freedoms...
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesian central bank guard attacks TV journalist to prevent news coverage Date:13/05/2009 A building security officer of the Bank Indonesia (BI) attacked a TV journalist in Jakarta on 13 May...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesian housewife arrested over online consumer complaintDate:01/06/2009 An Indonesian woman was arrested on 13 May 2009 for allegedly circulating online defamatory statements against a hospital in Banten province, Indonesia...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesian media advocate's defamation charges forwarded to Attorney General's OfficeDate:04/02/2009 AJI is disappointed with criminal defamation charges filed against Upi Asmaradhana...
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesian media group denounces arrest of four Dutch journalists Date:08/04/2009 The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) of Indonesia issued a call for accessibility and safety of journalists after four Dutch reporters were arrested and detained for 12 hours on 24 March 2009 in Papua province...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Indonesian president calls for religious toleranceDate:16/08/2010 Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday stressed the need for religious tolerance amid growing calls for him to act against Islamic radicals who regularly attack minorities...
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Monday, 16 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Free Press and Free Expression Organizations to Iran: Release Jailed Journalists, WritersDate:12/02/2010 A coalition of leading international journalists', writers', and publishers' organizations today launched a campaign to press the government of Iran to release their colleagues imprisoned in the wake of last year's disputed presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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Friday, 12 February 2010Last Modified:
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Iran: Protesters decry Iran detentionsDate:27/07/2009 Protesters have taken to the streets in several countries across the globe in support of opposition Iranian activists detained following last month's disputed presidential election...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Act V of Tehran judicial travestyDate:17/09/2009 'The prosecution again put the media at the centre of its case during the fifth hearing before a Tehran revolutionary court on 14 September in the mass trial of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection, this time going so far as to accuse Facebook and YouTube of waging a psychological war against Iran...
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Thursday, 17 September 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Act V of Tehran judicial travestyDate:21/09/2009 'The prosecution again put the media at the centre of its case during the fifth hearing before a Tehran revolutionary court on 14 September in the mass trial of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection, this time going so far as to accuse Facebook and YouTube of waging a psychological war against Iran...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Alarm at violent arrest of women's rights activist Shadi SadrDate:27/07/2009 Arrest fuels fear that wave of arrests is intensifying Amnesty International fears the wave of arrests of civil society activists in Iran is intensifying after the leading lawyer and women's human rights activist Shadi Sadr was violently arrested in Tehran this morning on her way to Friday prayers...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Arbitrary arrest/Fear of tortureDate:03/07/2009 At least 13 journalists are among scores of people arrested in their homes or offices since the disputed Iranian Presidential election on 12 June...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Arrests continue, one journalist released Date:15/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Mohamed Ali Dadkhah, a lawyer who represents many journalists and cyber-dissidents and who, together with Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, helped to set up the Human Rights Defenders Centre...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: ARTICLE 19 Calls for an Urgent Investigation into the Death of Blogger Omid Reza MirsayafiDate:20/03/2009 On 18 March 2009, Omid Reza Mirsayafi, a 29-year-old Iranian blogger died in prison in Tehran after he failed to receive medical assistance...
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Friday, 20 March 2009Last Modified:
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IRAN: As Far as We Know . . .?Date:14/01/2009 In response to a question from a reporter who asked about the allocation of a million ?Dollars for the assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the spokesperson for ?Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hassan Ghashghavi said, You know that the flow of ?information and expression of opinion in Iran enjoys freedom...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: At least 13 jailed as crackdown enters second week Date:23/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to release all journalists detained in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election and to lift the onerous press restrictions that are choking information at a time when the country and the world most need it...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Bloggers demonised and persecutedDate:21/09/2009 In addition to the political trials and arrests of hundreds of government opponents, repression in Iran is concentrating on Internet users...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Correspondent's confession posted by news agency; photographer releasedDate:09/07/2009 'New York, June 30, 2009 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Correspondent's confession posted by news agency; photographer releasedDate:09/07/2009 'New York, June 30, 2009 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Correspondent's confession posted by news agency; photographer releasedDate:09/07/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: CPJ asks Iran to release imprisoned journalistsDate:23/09/2009 'Dear Mr...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: CPJ calls for humanitarian release as Ramadan endsDate:11/09/2009 As the end of Muslim holy month of Ramadan approaches, Maziar Bahari, a Canadian-Iranian national, continues to be held in an Iranian jail under deplorable conditions...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: CPJ relieved by release of journalist in IranDate:06/07/2009 In response to reports that Iason Athanasiadis, a journalist detained in Iran since June 17, was released today we issued the following statement...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Details emerge about show trial detainees being denied their rightsDate:17/08/2009 'Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the Stalin-style prosecutions and trials of critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad’s reelection that are taking place in Tehran...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Escalation of Attacks and Censorship After ElectionsDate:15/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately to unblock Iranians’ access to international media, to lift bans on local newspapers and websites, and to stop harassing Iranian and foreign journalists in the wake of last Friday’s presidential elections...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Forty-one journalists in prison after a month of unrestDate:16/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders has expressed great concern over the growing repression of journalists and cyber-dissidents in Iran after a month of post-election protests and called for them all to be freed at once...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: French student held because of photographs and e-mailsDate:09/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very worried by French graduate student Clotilde Reiss's arrest at Tehran airport as she was about to leave the country on 1 July 2009...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Government still targeting journalists employed by foreign mediaDate:23/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is outraged that the Iranian judicial authorities are continuing to hold journalists employed by foreign news media including, Maziar Bahari, the correspondent of the US news magazine Newsweek, arrested exactly three months ago, and Fariba Pajooh, a stringer for Radio France Internationale and other media, who today begins her second month in detention...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: In Iran, journalist association closed down, more arrestedDate:10/08/2009 'New York, August 6, 2009--Officials shut down the office of the Association of Iranian Journalists in Tehran on Wednesday night, just after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term, according to international news reports...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Iran charges journalists with 'lying'Date:27/08/2009 The fourth session of the mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, including journalists, took place in Tehran today...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iran government faces problem of 'legitimacy': EU presidencyDate:27/07/2009 Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Tuesday that the Iranian government was suffering from problems of legitimacy among voters, following the controversial presidential elections last month...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian government must allow peaceful commemorations of 18 Tir eventsDate:13/07/2009 'Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of student-led protests by security forces in Iran, which resulted in the death of at least one student and the torture and ill-treatment of others...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian government must allow peaceful commemorations of 18 Tir eventsDate:13/07/2009 'Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of student-led protests by security forces in Iran, which resulted in the death of at least one student and the torture and ill-treatment of others...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Iranian government must allow peaceful commemorations of 18 Tir eventsDate:13/07/2009 Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of student-led protests by security forces in Iran, which resulted in the death of at least one student and the torture and ill-treatment of others...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Iranian journalist arrested, others summonedDate:09/09/2009 'Iranian authorities arrested one journalist today while security forces summoned at least 15 who were among the signatories of a recent petition demanding the release of detained journalists, local press reported...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Journalists face trial in Iran as arrests continueDate:03/08/2009 After more than a month of detention, several journalists may face trial beginning on Saturday on charges of sending pictures to enemy media...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Lawyers protest lack of access in IranDate:17/08/2009 'New York, August 14, 2009--In a letter addressed to the head of the Iranian judiciary, four defense lawyers protested that they were not allowed to attend the latest hearing, on August 8, in a mass trial in which more than 100 defendants, including journalists, stand accused of anti-state activities...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: One blogger arrested, another made to confess in blog from prisonDate:08/09/2009 'Reporters Without Borders calls for the release Ali Asguar Jamali, a blogger and doctor based in the northern city of Qasvin who has been arrested along with other activists for “inciting actions against national security including protests and insults against government officials by means of publications and meeting, ” the news agency Fars reported on 2 September...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: One hundred prominent journalists call for release of Maziar BahariDate:17/07/2009 More than 100 prominent journalists from 47 countries sent a petition to the Iranian government today calling for the immediate release of Maziar Bahari, Newsweek's Tehran correspondent, who has been held without charge in an Iranian jail since June 21...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Opposition Presidential Candidates Blocked from Equitable Access to the MediaDate:01/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 is concerned that opposition candidates, contesting Iran’s presidential election on 12 June 2009, are being hampered in their campaigning by the Government’s intermittent blocking of social networking sites and closure of independent newspapers...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: Photojournalist Recalls Heady Days, Grim Aftermath Date:09/02/2009 Reza Deghati has spent the last three decades capturing images of despair, hope, and the lives of ordinary people in war-torn areas around the world...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: President Abolhassan Banisadr Supporting Freedom of Expression for Baha’isDate:18/02/2009 In Iran, debate about the manner in which the government is dealing with the Baha'i community and its followers gains a new intensity each day...
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAN: Profile: Mohammad Khatami Date:09/02/2009 Mohammad Khatami, who has announced he will run for re-election as president of Iran after a gap of four years, served in the post for eight years...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Pro-reform daily closed one day after bringing out first issue in five yearsDate:19/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the pro-reform daily Yas-e-no’s closure on 16 May, immediately after it brought out its first issue in five years...
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Protests against election results or the entire establishment?Date:16/07/2009 Particularly in the final days of campaigning, the real race was clearly one that would be a choice between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Rafsanjani condemns Iranian regime's handling of post-election unrestDate:20/07/2009 One of Iran's most powerful clerics today attacked the Iranian government for its handling of protests and unrest that followed the disputed presidential election result...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
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Iran: Reformist Newspaper Closed as Rape Allegations Reverberate through the Corridors of PowerDate:18/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 is concerned about reports that authorities have closed Etemad-e Melli, a leading reformist newspaper Iran...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: Seven media workers, including Franco-Iranian cameraman, arrested Date:20/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a crackdown in recent days on photographers and cameramen...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: UN Human Rights Council Reviews Situation for Free ExpressionDate:15/02/2010 As the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) meets today in Geneva to engage in its Universal Periodic Review of Iran, ARTICLE 19 again raises serious concerns about the failure of the Islamic Republic to respect and promote freedom of expression...
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Monday, 15 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: UNESCO chief backs G8 call on Iran to respect human rightsDate:06/07/2009 The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding freedom of expression and press freedom today voiced his strong support for the recent call issued by the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) nations on Iran to respect fundamental human rights...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran: US Senate targets Iran censorshipDate:27/07/2009 The US Senate has approved funds for measures to help Iran's opposition defeat curbs on news and Internet social networking sites it has used to organize since a disputed presidential vote...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran:ARTICLE 19 Urges Human Rights Council to Address Free ExpressionDate:04/09/2009 ARTICLE 19 has provided a Submission to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) raising serious concerns about the failure of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect and promote freedom of expression in that country...
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Friday, 4 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran unrest: MPs call for death of Mousavi and KarroubiDate:15/02/2011 Members of Iran's parliament have called for opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi to be tried and executed...
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Media outlets: Iran must allow access to reporterDate:11/03/2009 The Associated Press has joined several other major news outlets in demanding that Iran specify how a detained American journalist broke the law, and that the country allow an outside group to evaluate her health and living conditions...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Middle Israel: Iran's upheaval in contextDate:06/07/2009 The upheaval in Iran may have ended and, conversely, it may have hardly begun, but from what we have seen so far, several mostly somber conclusions already arise...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
There's a balance between freedom of expression and respect for religion: Sampaio Date:20/10/2008 TEHRAN -- There is a balance to be found between freedom of expression and respect for religion and for religious feelings and principles, Jorge Sampaio, the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC), said here on Thursday...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
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Iran bans mention of opposition leaders in pressDate:25/08/2010 Iranian newspapers have been banned from publishing the names or photos of the leaders of Iran's green movement, according to a confidential governmental ruling revealed by an opposition website...
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests Date:17/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests over the disputed presidential election...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran calls on int’l activists to help freedom of Palestinian journalistDate:14/01/2009 Deputy Minister of Culture and the Islamic Guidance Ali-Reza Malekian called on international press community on Monday to take necessary measures for the rapid release of a Palestinian journalist illegally arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Iran charges imprisoned journalist with spyingDate:09/04/2009 Roxana Saberi, who has dual U...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran court to hear U.S.-born reporter's appealDate:06/05/2009 An Iranian court will hold a hearing next week on the appeal of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi against her eight-year jail sentence for espionage, the judiciary said Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran hinders web searches leading up to planned rally, sources sayDate:14/02/2011 Iranian authorities have blocked the word Bahman – the 11th month of the Persian calendar – from Internet searches within the country, according to an opposition website...
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Monday, 14 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran moves to silence opposition with internet crime unitDate:15/11/2009 Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country's political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet...
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Sunday, 15 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran must disclose identities of detained Germans Date:14/10/2010 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to immediately disclose the names of two Germans who were arrested on Sunday and described as journalists in several news reports...
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Thursday, 14 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran policing Net in new attack on oppositionDate:14/11/2009 Iran has deployed a special police unit to sweep websites for political material and prosecute those deemed to be spreading lies, Iranian media reported Saturday, in a step clearly aimed at choking off the embattled opposition’s last real means of keeping its campaign alive...
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Saturday, 14 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran sentences Roxana Saberi to 8 yearsDate:20/04/2009 An Iranian American journalist accused of spying for the U...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian authorities crack down on mediaDate:16/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an end to the Iranian authorities' ongoing crackdown on media following the disputed re-election of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian blogger given leave from prisonDate:09/12/2010 The dissident Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan – known as Hoder – has been released on bail of $1...
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Thursday, 9 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian court sentences a journalist to 13 years and 74 lashes in absentiaDate:13/05/2010 An Iranian court has sentenced Maziar Bahari a journalist to 13 years and 74 lashes in absentia...
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Thursday, 13 May 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi Named 2011 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize WinnerDate:07/04/2011 I send my deepest congratulations to jailed Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi for being named the 2011 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize winner...
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Thursday, 7 April 2011Last Modified:
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Iranian journalist gets 30 Year writing banDate:09/06/2010 The Daily Shargh, Iran’s leading moderate newspaper (which was banned for three years) reported on June 9, 2010, that an award-winning woman journalist Jila Baniyaghoob (39) was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and banned from writing or reporting for 30 years...
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian newspaper raided, employees detainedDate:24/06/2009 Iranian security agents arrested about 25 employees of Kalameh Sabz, the reformist newspaper owned by presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, after raiding the paper's offices on Monday evening, according to local and international news reports...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iranian president orders review of Roxana Saberi's case Date:21/04/2009 In response to a letter sent on Sunday by Irans president urging the public prosecutor to ensure justice for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, the Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Saberi to be released on bail pending her appeal...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran's persecution of Bahá'ís is devastatingDate:13/03/2009 What connects an academic, a blogger, a Nobel prize winner, a postgraduate researcher, a cyber feminist, a journalist and a woman who let her head covering slip? The answer? They have all had their freedom to express themselves violated...
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Friday, 13 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to mediaDate:17/06/2009 Iran's most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Top Iranian Lawyer Unjustly Sentenced to 11 years in PrisonDate:27/01/2011 UN Human Rights Council Should Act to Address Crisis (9 January 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called the 11-year prison sentence of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh a “gross miscarriage of justice” and said that it should be overturned by an appeals court...
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Thursday, 27 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: A step forward and a step back in prime minister’s lawsuits against news mediaDate:29/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders deplores the libel suit that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has brought against the London-based Guardian newspaper...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Amnesty International condemns attacks on Christian minorityDate:16/07/2009 Amnesty International is greatly concerned by the recent spate of attacks on Christian churches in Baghdad, which killed four civilians and injured more than 30 others...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: ARTICLE 19 Comments on Draft Access to Information LawDate:18/01/2010 ARTICLE 19 has analysed the Access to Information Draft Law proposed in late 2009 by the Temkin, a group of independent experts which includes journalists and academics, in Iraq...
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Monday, 18 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Free Speech Protests in KurdistanDate:10/01/2011 More than a thousand protesters took to the main street in Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital, to condemn a new law requiring all public demonstrations to have government permits...
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Monday, 10 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAQ: Gay-sex story lands writer in jailDate:09/12/2008 A court in northern Iraqs Kurdistan region has sentenced a freelance journalist to six months in prison and a fine for writing an article about gay sex, a penalty that media groups say violates the law and underscores the lack of press freedom in Kurdistan...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Governement bill seen as opening way to online censorshipDate:10/08/2009 'Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a new culture ministry bill that aims to ban certain websites as its scope is too vague and it needs to be more clearly defined...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Historic day in Baghdad as IFJ launches journalism support programmeDate:29/05/2009 Leaders of journalists unions from around the world travelled to Baghdad at the weekend for a conference on support for media in Iraq - the first international meeting of any kind in the city since the war began six years ago...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
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Iraq: IFJ and ARTICLE 19 Pledge Support for UK Guardian Newspaper in Defamation CaseDate:26/01/2010 ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the affiliated Iraqi journalists’ union today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British Guardian newspaper and its journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Internal security threats suddenly off-limits for news mediaDate:27/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the way the Iraqi authorities prevented the news media from covering bombings in Baghdad and the southern province of Babil on 19 and 20 August and an ensuing emergency parliamentary debate, in what appears to have been deliberate security policy...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead Date:04/08/2009 'BAGHDAD — The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003: In rushed a wave of music videos featuring scantily clad Turkish singers, Web sites recruiting suicide bombers, racy Egyptian soap operas, pornography, romance novels, and American and Israeli news and entertainment sites that had long been blocked under Saddam Hussein’s rule...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead Date:04/08/2009 The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003: In rushed a wave of music videos featuring scantily clad Turkish singers, Web sites recruiting suicide bombers, racy Egyptian soap operas, pornography, romance novels, and American and Israeli news and entertainment sites that had long been blocked under Saddam Hussein’s rule...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Iraq revives rules censoring booksDate:27/07/2009 Iraq's Ministry of Culture has revived regulations forbidding the import of some books, prompting critics to accuse it of restoring Saddam-era censorship...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAQ: Journalist murdered in KirkukDate:16/10/2008 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of Iraqi reporter Dyar Abas Ahmed, who was shot by unidentified gunmen in Kirkuk today, according to news reports and CPJ interviews...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Journalist Protection Law Needs to be ReviewedDate:27/04/2011 A Journalist Protection Law, prepared by the Iraqi Syndicate of Journalists and endorsed by the government of Iraq, has been laid before the Iraqi Parliament for its consideration...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAQ: Kurdish press law draws mixed responseDate:20/10/2008 Although Iraqi Kurdistan's leaders have approved a new press law that affords journalists in the north more rights, some observers argue that the battle for freedom of expression in the region is far from over...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Protecting journalists in IraqDate:28/08/2009 Iraq remains the most dangerous country in the world to be a journalist and nearly 200 journalists and other media workers have been killed there since the US-led invasion in 2003...
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Friday, 28 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Shoe-thrower’s jail sentence reduced from three years to oneDate:08/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders notes that a Baghdad appeal court today reduced journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi's sentence from three years to one year in prison...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Shooting of human rights defender and journalist Mr Imad AbadiDate:27/11/2009 On 23 November 2009, journalist and human rights defender Mr Imad Abadi was shot in Baghdad...
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Friday, 27 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Unprecedented civil society demonstration in defence of press freedomDate:17/08/2009 Hundreds of journalists, academics, performers, politicians and ordinary Iraqis staged an unprecedented demonstration today on Moutanabi Street, in Baghdad’s old quarter, in solidarity with journalist Ahmed Abd Al-Hussein of the newspaper Al-Sabah, who has been the target of death threats from a Shiite political party...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
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Iraq shoe-thrower trial on Feb 19Date:09/02/2009 BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi journalist who famously threw his shoes at former US President George W...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
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Iraq, India and Mexico Most Deadly as 2008 Claims 104 Killings in Journalism, says IFJDate:06/01/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said that the number of work related killings of journalists significantly dropped in 2008 following three years of record levels...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraqi court rules Guardian defamed Nouri al-MalikiDate:10/11/2009 An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52, 000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime minister's intelligence service that he had been defamed by a Guardian story in April describing him as increasingly autocratic...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraqi shoe-thrower's case is adjournedDate:20/02/2009 It was the hottest ticket in town...
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Friday, 20 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven Muslim protesters who shouted insults at homecoming troops were 'exercising their right to freedom of speech'Date:08/01/2010 Seven Muslim protesters who screamed insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade were simply exercising their freedom of speech, a court heard today...
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Friday, 8 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRELAND: Banned from printing sex murderer's photoDate:08/01/2009 Sex killer Ken Callaghan yesterday joined a list of some of the world's most notorious killers when he won a permanent ban against his photograph being published...
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Thursday, 8 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ireland: Eady on privacy and free speechDate:11/05/2009 Ireland is in the throes of enacting a specific law to protect privacy plus a new defamation law...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRELAND: Order curtails freedom of expression, hearing toldDate:09/12/2008 A HIGH Court order requiring Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and public affairs correspondent Colm Keena to answer questions from the Mahon tribunal about the source of an article on financial payments to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern is an impermissible restriction on the right to freedom of expression, the Supreme Court was told yesterday...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRELAND: Press Council upholds complaint against Myers articleDate:20/10/2008 The Press Council of Ireland has upheld a complaint against the Irish Independent that an article by its columnist Kevin Myers breached its Code of Practice relating to incitement to hatred...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
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Ireland's new blasphemy law is a disgraceful inhibition of free speechDate:07/01/2010 Reading Monday's Irish Times, I came across a surprising story tucked away at the bottom of a news page, Atheists rally over blasphemy law...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ACRI: Gov't cracking down on freedom of expression Date:12/12/2010 It was more difficult, more dangerous and more expensive to hold demonstrations in Israel this past year, according to a chapter of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel’s “2010 State of Democracy Report, ” relating to freedom of expression, which was released on Sunday...
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Sunday, 12 December 2010Last Modified:
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ISRAEL: Authorities remain silent about imprisonment of Syrian journalist Ata FarahatDate:03/10/2008 Reporters Without Borders has condemned the silence of Israeli authorities in respect of Syrian journalist Ata Farahat, a correspondent for the Syrian daily 'Al-Watan', who is has been held in al-Jalbou prison in Beit Shean since 30 July 2007...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ISRAEL: Court reviewing inmate's petition to bring porn into jail Date:06/02/2009 The High Court of Justice Thursday reviewed the petition of a Hasharon Prison inmate seeking to bring pornography into jail...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ISRAEL: Court upholds Umm el-Fahm marchDate:22/01/2009 The Israel Police and the Justice Ministry were dealt a blow on Wednesday when the High Court of Justice criticized them for repeatedly delaying a planned right-wing protest through the streets of Umm el-Fahm...
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Thursday, 22 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ISRAEL: Homage or horror? Date:09/03/2009 In 1919, French artist Marcel Duchamp created a defiant and challenging work of art...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ISRAEL: Homage or horror? Date:09/03/2009 In 1919, French artist Marcel Duchamp created a defiant and challenging work of art...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Israel: Rightist acquitted of incitement chargesDate:11/06/2009 Far-right activist and the president of Judea state Michael Ben-Horin was acquitted Thursday by the Jerusalem Magistrate's court of incitement to violence charges...
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Thursday, 11 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Israel: West Bank radio station’s arbitrary closure by Israeli soldiersDate:27/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the arbitrary closure of Radio Bethlehem 2000, a radio station located near the West Bank city of Bethlehem...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Israel: Withdraw Legislation Punishing Human Rights Activists Date:06/08/2010 (Jerusalem) - Israel's Knesset should reject proposed legislation that would weaken the country's vibrant civil society, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 6 August 2010Last Modified:
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Israel Closes Media Center, Upsetting Palestinians Date:12/05/2009 The Israeli police on Monday closed down an official Palestinian media center that had been set up in East Jerusalem for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, as Israel and the Palestinians competed to exercise authority in the contested part of the city...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009Last Modified:
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Israel deports US journalistDate:20/01/2010 Israeli authorities today deported an American journalist who was working as an editor for a Palestinian news agency...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Israel ordered to let international media into GazaDate:06/01/2009 Israels supreme court today ordered the government to allow the international media into Gaza to report on the effect of the air strikes on Palestinians...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
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Italy: draft wiretapping law should be scrapped or revised, says UN expert on freedom of expressionDate:02/08/2010 GENEVA (13 July 2010) – The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, Frank La Rue, urged the Italian Government to “either abolish or revise draft law 1415* on surveillance and eavesdropping for criminal investigations...
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Monday, 2 August 2010Last Modified:
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Berlusconi 'vendetta' takes Italy's Paxman off air againDate:17/10/2010 His fans see him as Italy's Jeremy Paxman, an aggressive but penetrating TV anchorman...
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Sunday, 17 October 2010Last Modified:
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Italian Draft Law Threatens to Silence JournalistsDate:16/06/2009 The International Press Institute (IPI) calls on representatives of the Italian Parliament to reject “draft law 1415”, a legislative proposal that threatens to limit journalists’ ability to provide the public with vital information...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
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Italy To Launch Auction For Five New Digital Channels Date:09/04/2009 Italys telecoms regulator AGCOM said Wednesday five new digital channels will be assigned by an open auction, in a move aimed at boosting competition amid the switch-over process from analogue to digital TV...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
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Italy’s Web Bill May Limit Free Speech, Tiscali Says Date:17/02/2009 Tiscali SpA, an Italian Internet provider, said parliament's plan to crack down on what it defines as criminal content on the Web risks limiting freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009Last Modified:
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Italy's News BlackoutDate:09/07/2010 Media strikes over Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘gag law’ ; Italian journalists fall silent to protest PM’s wiretap bill...
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Friday, 9 July 2010Last Modified:
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Vatican says no to protecting free expression when it incites hatredDate:01/10/2009 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the freedom of expression is a right, states are not obliged to protect expression that incites hatred and tramples upon other people's rights, a Vatican official said...
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Thursday, 1 October 2009Last Modified:
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Vatican says no to protecting free expression when it incites hatredDate:01/10/2009 …
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Thursday, 1 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Jamaica: Legislators consider defamation suits against telecom providersDate:19/06/2009 Legislators in Jamaica are discussing whether telecommunications service providers should be open to legal suits if defamatory material is disseminated on their networks...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
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Jamaica: Local experts call for reform of defamation lawsDate:18/05/2009 Recognising the need for greater press freedom and the importance of free speech to good governance, Jamaica has embarked on a serious review of its defamation laws–a move being applauded by local experts who say there is need for a similar approach here...
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JAPAN: Experts dissect media-law relationshipDate:03/11/2008 In an attempt to find ways of ensuring freedom of expression, experts from Asia and Europe recently held a meeting in Nagoya to discuss the complex relationship between the media and the law...
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Monday, 3 November 2008Last Modified:
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The Tokyo Two: an abuse of human rightsDate:08/09/2010 In 2008, acting on whistleblower evidence, anti-whaling activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki uncovered illegal trade in whale meat in the course of an investigation into whaling...
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Wednesday, 8 September 2010Last Modified:
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Jordan: Court aquits well-know columnist of deafaming parliamentDate:29/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that Khaled Mahadin, a well-known columnist who writes for the government-owned Al Rai newspaper, has been acquitted of insulting parliament in an article posted on the website Khabberni on 13 February criticising the personal expenses of parliamentarians...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009Last Modified:
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Jordan: Courts Extend Law to Curb Internet FreedomsDate:14/01/2010 ARTICLE 19 notes with concern that the Kingdom of Jordan’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has amended the country’s Press and Publications Law to extend government control over online content...
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Thursday, 14 January 2010Last Modified:
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Jordan: Ensure Free Election Campaign Date:21/10/2010 Jordanian authorities should respect the right to free expression in the weeks leading up to national elections on November 9, 2010, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Thursday, 21 October 2010Last Modified:
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Jordan: Government closes bureaux of two Iranian satellite TV stationsDate:10/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the Jordanian government's closure of the Amman bureaux of two satellite TV stations that are funded by the Iranian government, the Arabic-language Al-Alam and the English-language Press TV...
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Friday, 10 July 2009Last Modified:
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JORDAN: Writer charged with insultin IslamDate:23/10/2008 AMMAN-A Jordanian writer was charged on Tuesday with insulting Islam after incorporating verses of the Koran into a poetry book he printed in June without government approval, his lawyer said...
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Thursday, 23 October 2008Last Modified:
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Jordan PM defends freedom of speech after unrestDate:29/03/2011 AMMAN ; The prime minister of Jordan said on Monday people have the right to free speech and that the government will set aside special areas for protests, in an apparent bid to ease tensions after bloody clashes last week...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011Last Modified:
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Jordan says freedom of expression guaranteed in election Date:25/10/2010 Jordan's information minister said on Saturday that freedom of expression was guaranteed after Human Rights Watch said there had been several arrests ahead of a November 9 general election...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
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Jordanian journalists furious over new cyber crimes lawDate:20/08/2010 AMMAN ; Jordanian journalists are up in arms after the government on August 3 passed a temporary law on cyber crimes seen by many as a way of controlling local news websites...
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Friday, 20 August 2010Last Modified:
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Jordanian writers fight curbs on freedomDate:27/01/2009 The Jordanian Writers Association will launch a campaign next month hoping to overturn laws it says are being used by the Press and Publication Department to unfairly target publishers and writers...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009Last Modified:
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Shackling media a sign of political crisis - NCHR (Jordan)Date:12/08/2010 AMMAN - The National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) on Wednesday said that restrictions on the circulation of information and attempts to shackle media outlets are signs that a country is in a political crisis...
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Thursday, 12 August 2010Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Analysis of law on publishing releasedDate:20/10/2008 ARTICLE 19 has released an analysis of the 2008 draft Kazakhstan Law on Publishing Activities, with key concerns including the proposed registration and licensing scheme for a wide range of publishing activities...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Daily singled out in new attack on independent pressDate:21/09/2009 The entire print run of Kazakhstan’s leading opposition daily, Respublika, was seized today in Almaty while a court froze the bank accounts of its owner and editor in execution of a 9 September court ruling ordering the newspaper to pay 60 million tenge (275, 500 euros) in libel damages to the state-controlled bank BTA...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Human Rights Watch urges government to rescind new Internet lawDate:17/07/2009 The government of Kazakhstan should rescind a new law that significantly restricts media freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Kazakhstan: Human Rights Watch urges government to rescind new Internet lawDate:17/07/2009 'The government of Kazakhstan should rescind a new law that significantly restricts media freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Kazakhstan: Human Rights Watch urges government to rescind new Internet lawDate:17/07/2009 'The government of Kazakhstan should rescind a new law that significantly restricts media freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Human Rights Watch urges government to rescind new Internet lawDate:17/07/2009 'The government of Kazakhstan should rescind a new law that significantly restricts media freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Kazakh authorities seize embattled weekly’s print runDate:21/09/2009 'New York, September 18, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the seizure of the print run of one of the few remaining independent newspapers in Kazakhstan, which is set to take control of a leading security and human rights organization...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Parliament adopts bill curbing online freedomDate:03/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders and the Kazakh organization “Journalist in danger” condemn the Internet bill that Kazakh legislators passed today...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Kazakhstan: Rescind New Media Restrictions Date:15/07/2009 The government of Kazakhstan should rescind a new law that significantly restricts media freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today...
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KAZAKHSTAN: TOUGHER RELIGION LAW UNDER CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEWDate:16/01/2009 Non-governmental organization activists are encouraged by Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev's decision to refer controversial legislation governing religious expression to the country's Constitutional Council for review...
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Friday, 16 January 2009Last Modified:
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Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan's Elections Betray Citizens' Hopes for ProgressDate:27/07/2009 Freedom House is deeply disappointed by the conduct of yesterday’s presidential vote in Kyrgyzstan...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
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OSCE: Kazakh media law amendments valuable first step, further reform needed, says OSCE media freedom representativeDate:29/01/2009 The OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, welcomed today the adoption of a number of amendments to Kazakhstans media law, and underscored the need for further democratization of media governance...
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Kazakhstan's uneasy press freedomDate:08/05/2009 Kazakhstans independent journalists are threatened by proposed laws to censor speech online The Republic of Kazakhstan is an unlikely setting for a battle over free speech on the internet...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
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Kenya: ARTICLE 19 Calls for Expansion of Freedom of Expression Rights to be Integrated into the New Draft Constitution of Kenya Date:18/05/2009 Today, ARTICLE 19 Kenya and East Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, submitted its comments to the Committee of Experts for the new Constitutional Review Process currently ongoing in Kenya...
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Kenya: Civil Society Adopt the Machakos Declaration on Freedom of Expression in KenyaDate:11/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 Kenya/East Africa organised a ground-breaking forum on freedom of expression in Kenya which brought together representatives from Kenyan civil society including media professionals, academics, human rights defenders, and youth and community representatives in Machakos...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
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KENYA: Ex-journalist facing charges for ‘spreading false information’, detained for six daysDate:07/10/2008 An ex-journalist and East Africa coordinator of the Seafarers Assistance Programme is facing charges for 'spreading false information' after he contradicted the official version put out by the Kenyan government about the destination of Ukranian cargo ship, the Fania, seized by pirates off the Somali coast en route to Mombasa...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008Last Modified:
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KENYA: Government silent as national outrage rises over Media BillDate:13/12/2008 The Government remained silent on the draconian Bill that legislates Government seizure of broadcast facilities...
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Saturday, 13 December 2008Last Modified:
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Kenya: Kibaki Gag Law Angers Nation, Splits GovernmentDate:07/01/2009 President Mwai Kibakis recent decision to approve a law to gag the broadcast media has continued to outrage the country, further soiling the now debated legacy of the man who was swept to power in 2002 by a wave of hope for democratic reforms...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2009Last Modified:
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KENYA: Kibaki orders review of new media law Date:08/01/2009 President Kibaki on Wednesday moved to defuse rising tension over his signing into law a new Bill seeking to curtail media freedom with a directive to the Attorney-General to draft amendments to the offensive clauses for review by the Cabinet...
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KENYA: Legislation, Hate Speech, and Freedom of ExpressionDate:23/10/2008 Lawrence M...
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Thursday, 23 October 2008Last Modified:
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KENYA: Media law deadlock broken Date:09/03/2009 The government has agreed to repeal the most contentious section of the Communications (Amendment) Act after meeting with media representatives...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
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KENYA: Media owners asked to push for review of Act Date:23/02/2009 Media owners have been asked to tell the attorney-general to speed up amendments to the media law signed by President Kibaki last month...
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Monday, 23 February 2009Last Modified:
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KENYA: Media up in arms over passing of billDate:11/12/2008 Media stakeholders have termed the passage of the communications bill by parliament on Wednesday as an act of revenge following the medias sustained campaign to have MPs allowances taxed...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
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Kenya: MPs urged to act fast on media law Date:14/05/2009 Kenya media owners have asked parliament to act fast on amendments to the Communications Act that will delete the controversial clause that empowers the State to raid broadcasting stations...
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Thursday, 14 May 2009Last Modified:
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KENYA: Poghisio calls for sobriety in media law debateDate:13/01/2009 Information and communication minister Samuel Poghisio is calling for trust between the government, parliament and the media as they strive to iron out contentious issues in the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act 2008...
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009Last Modified:
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Kenya: The other side of the controversial media law Date:05/05/2009 Imagine transacting in a paperless environment...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Kenya and Somalia: Deaths of Two Journalists Highlights Continued Risks for the MediaDate:09/02/2009 It's just a few short weeks into the year and two journalists have lost their lives, simply for doing their jobs...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
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Kenya to dispel repressive clause in media lawDate:15/05/2009 The Kenyan government has finally conceded to repealing the repressive clause in the country's media law, but the decision is yet to be approved by parliament...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
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Kenyan journalist receives threats for investigating murderDate:23/12/2010 A Kenyan journalist whose reporting has helped expose and publicize the unsolved 2009 murder of reporter Francis Nyaruri received two anonymous threatening phone calls on Friday warning he could share Nyaruri's fate, according to local journalists...
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Thursday, 23 December 2010Last Modified:
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Kosovo: Journalist attacked in articles written in pro-government newspaperDate:10/06/2009 Kosovo's president and prime minister should forcefully condemn recent threats against the independent journalist Jeta Xharra in a newspaper that receives substantial advertising revenues from the government, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Kuwait: Ban on satirical TV programme damages Kuwait’s imageDate:02/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the decision by Kuwaiti information minister Al-Sheikh Ahmad Abdallah al-Sabah to suspend privately-owned Scope TV’s political satire programme Sawtak Wasal on 25 August after only three of an initially-scheduled series of 15 programmes had been broadcast...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Kuwait court refuses to summon top royal Date:21/09/2010 A Kuwaiti court on Monday rejected a request by lawyers defending a writer facing charges of undermining the status of the Gulf emirate's ruler to cross-examine the leading royal who made the complaint...
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Tuesday, 21 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Lebanon: Article 19 Calls for Comprehensive Reform of Print Media LegislationDate:24/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 today releases its analysis of the Press Law of Lebanon and amendments to a range of domestic media laws, as proposed by the Maharat Foundation, a civil society group promoting a free press in Lebanon...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
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Lebanon: Newspaper under pressure because of political tension and rivalryDate:27/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the distribution ban which the Syrian authorities have imposed on the privately-owned Lebanese daily Al-Diyar since 22 April and the threats that have been made against its editor, Charles Ayoub, a Lebanese politician with a pro-Syrian stance...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
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LEBANON: Rahi to LBC: The Church favors freedom of expression as long as it is ethicalDate:27/02/2009 In an interview with LBC on Thursday, Maronite Bishop of Jbeil al-Rahi said that the Church favored the freedom of expression, but people should justify their views...
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Friday, 27 February 2009Last Modified:
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Lebanon takes worrying steps on online freedomDate:03/07/2010 Lebanon's president, Michel Sleiman, may have more than 60, 000 Facebook fans, but it took the opinions of just three people for things to get unfriendly...
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Saturday, 3 July 2010Last Modified:
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LESOTHO: Defunct weekly issued hefty fine in defamation caseDate:16/10/2008 A defunct Lesotho weekly, The Mirror, its editor and EPIC Printers were slapped with a M50 000 (USD $8 000) fine by the High Court of Lesotho on 29 September 2008 for defaming Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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President Sirleaf: 'We Will Not Undermine Press Fredom' Date:07/12/2010 Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has assured journalists in the country that her administration will neither take any measure nor will it be associated with any measure that would scale back press freedom...
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Tuesday, 7 December 2010Last Modified:
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Liberia sets the pace for Ghana by passing RTI Bill Date:03/08/2010 Accra, Aug...
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010Last Modified:
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Eyewitness: Whispers and propaganda in Libyan capitalDate:08/04/2011 As rebel groups continue their offensive in Libya, one resident in Tripoli - who does not want to be identified for his own safety - explains what it is like to live in a city full of mistrust and whispers...
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Friday, 8 April 2011Last Modified:
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Libya: Anniversary a reminder of Qaddafi's media repressionDate:01/09/2009 As Col...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
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Libya: Mark Anniversary by Restoring RightsDate:02/09/2009 Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi should mark his 40th anniversary in power by wiping repressive laws off the books and freeing political prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009Last Modified:
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Libya: Protests 'rock city of Benghazi'Date:16/02/2011 There are reports of protests by hundreds of people in the Libyan city of Benghazi...
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011Last Modified:
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Libya protests: UN Security Council condemns crackdownDate:23/02/2011 The UN Security Council has condemned the Libyan authorities for using force against protesters, calling for those responsible to be held to account...
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011Last Modified:
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Lithuania: Concern over law banning public references to sexual orientationDate:03/07/2009 President Valdas Adamkus should veto a proposed law passed by Lithuania's parliament that would ban references to gay, lesbian, and bisexual relations in public places, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the president...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Lithuania: Human Rights watch asks parliament not to revive censorship lawDate:16/07/2009 The Lithuanian parliament should not revive a proposed law that had been vetoed by the president, to ban references to gay, lesbian, and bisexual relations in public places, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the speaker of Lithuania's parliament...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
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Lithuania: Lithuanian parliament moves to criminalize homosexualityDate:15/09/2009 Any move by the Lithuanian parliament to criminalize the promotion of homosexuality would violate the country's international obligations to uphold freedom of expression and fight discrimination, Amnesty International warned on Wednesday...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
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MACAU: Anti subversion bill won't threaten freedom of speech: lawmakers Date:15/01/2009 The mainstream view of the Second Standing Committee was that the articles incriminating sedition and theft of state secrets in the national security bill would not jeopardise human rights...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
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Madagascar: Detained Radio Mada reporter is charged and transferred to prisonDate:08/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by today's decision to keep Radio Mada sports reporter Evariste Ramanantsoavina in detention and charge him with inciting revolt against the republic's institutions, defamation and disseminating false information...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Madagascar: Media under attack one month after new president installedDate:24/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the return of censorship to Madagascar in the form of orders to the state-owned media not to cover opposition demonstrations...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
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Madagascar / Dismay at fatal shooting of TV reporter covering anti-government demonstrationDate:10/02/2009 Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Ando Ratovonirina of privately-owned Radio et Télévision Analamanga (RTA) was shot dead while covering an anti-government demonstration outside the presidential palace in Antananarivo on 7 February...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009Last Modified:
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Madagascar President to Hold Talks with Opposition Over Escalating Tension Date:29/01/2009 Madagascars President Marc Ravalomanana is expected to hold talks with the opposition Wednesday in an attempt to resolve ongoing protests in the capital, Antananarivo that have left at least two people dead...
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Thursday, 29 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Malawi: Radio station resumes operations Date:19/06/2009 On 9 June 2009, the Blantyre Magistrate court ordered police to leave the premises of Joy FM Radio, a privately owned radio station, consequently allowing the station to go back on air...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
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Release gay couple: AmnestyDate:07/01/2010 Johannesburg - Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Malawian authorities to immediately release two men who were arrested for being gay...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Malawi journalists detained during presidential electionDate:20/05/2009 Authorities in Malawi should immediately release three journalists arrested today in a police raid on an opposition radio station, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009Last Modified:
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Malawi opposition radio station still off the airDate:28/05/2009 A magistrate in Malawi should allow an opposition radio station sealed by police during general elections on May 19 to reopen, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
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MALAYSIA: A free press must have free reignDate:11/11/2008 MENTION the arrest of Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng and one is likely to hear sighs of frustration and comments about bad politicking...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
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Malaysia: CIJ now a member of IFEX Date:03/06/2009 CIJ is accepted as member of the International Freedom of eXpression Exchange (IFEX), an international network of freedom of expression advocates...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
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MALAYSIA: Court frees Raja PetraDate:07/11/2008 Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin was released from his two-year detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) at 3...
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Friday, 7 November 2008Last Modified:
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Malaysia: Government Crackdown on Freedom of Expression Date:07/05/2009 Amnesty International calls on the Malaysian authorities to release five government critics arrested in the last two days, or charge them with recognizable criminal offences...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009Last Modified:
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MALAYSIA: Malaysia suspends two opposition newspapersDate:30/03/2009 The following is a statement from the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), a SEAPA partner based in Kuala Lumpur: CIJ and WAMI condemn suspension of Opposition newspapers The Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia, (CIJ) and the Writers Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI) strongly condemn the Government's latest assault on constitutionally-enshrined freedom of expression and freedom of assembly when the country faces a change in leadership and three crucial by-elections...
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Monday, 30 March 2009Last Modified:
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Malaysia: Proposed cyber sedition law is undemocraticDate:03/12/2010 The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) is concerned with Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's references to a new law that will be introduced to govern sedition in cyberspace...
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Friday, 3 December 2010Last Modified:
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Malaysia: Selangor to enact Freedom of Info law Date:20/05/2009 Selangor will be the first state to table a Freedom of Information (FOI) Enactment bill in its legislative assembly by the end of this year...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009Last Modified:
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MALAYSIA: Six to be charged for insulting Perak Sultan via blogs, postings Date:13/03/2009 Six people, who allegedly insulted the Sultan of Perak via their blogs or online postings, are expected to be charged on Friday under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998...
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Friday, 13 March 2009Last Modified:
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Malaysia: Television host reasssigned following question on prime minister's ratings Date:20/07/2009 The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) notes with concern the action taken against a local television station host and producer for the program Point of View, Florence Looi, for having asked her guests to rate the performance of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in his 100 days in office...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
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MALAYSIA: Malaysiakini inspires debate Date:28/01/2009 A MALAYSIAN newspaper that exists only in cyberspace has inspired a torrent of online debate since its launch a decade ago, in a phenomenon that has shaken up the nations media and political scene...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Last Modified:
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MALAYSIA: Media watchdog slams federal government for lack of media reformsDate:26/01/2009 The Malaysian government under the Barisan Nasional party remained rooted in its approach and ignored calls for greater respect for freedom of expression despite a loud message from the public who voted for a much stronger opposition representation in the 2008 general elections, the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) noted in its annual review launched on 22 January 2009...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
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Malaysia mulls 'cyber court' to handle Internet crimesDate:05/01/2009 Malaysia is considering establishing a cyber court to deal with the increasing number of crimes related to the Internet and blogging, a report said Tuesday...
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Monday, 5 January 2009Last Modified:
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Malaysia warns lawyers group on discussing Allah rowDate:23/03/2009 Malaysia warned a leading lawyers association not to use its website to discuss whether non-Muslims can use the word Allah for God, the state news agency Bernama reported on Sunday, saying it would incur the wrath of the countrys majority Muslims...
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Monday, 23 March 2009Last Modified:
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Malaysian government's crackdown on free expression alarms media group Date:08/05/2009 CIJ raises concern over possible clampdown on anti-government expression The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) is deeply worried that the new administration under Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has begun a swoop of those publicly opposed to the takeover of the northern state of Perak by the ruling Federal government Barisan Nasional...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
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Malaysian MP on sedition charges Date:17/03/2009 A Malaysian opposition leader has been charged with sedition for allegedly insulting a royal figure...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009Last Modified:
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MALDIVES: Majlis accepts bill on freedom of expressionDate:28/10/2008 People's Majlis at its 8th sitting of the third session held yesterday has accepted the bill on the right of freedom of expression and passed to send the bill to Majlis committee on Social Affairs...
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008Last Modified:
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Maldives: Stop Prosecuting Criminal Defamation CasesDate:17/06/2009 The first criminal case in many years began hearings at the Criminal Court in the Maldives yesterday...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
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MALDIVES: UN rights expert praises steps taken towards freedom of expressionDate:09/03/2009 United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Frank La Rue on Thursday has welcomed measures taken by Maldives government to establish democratic reforms, including on freedom of expression, according to foreign ministry...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
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Maldives - Upholding Freedom of Expression and People’s Liberty, the Most Important Goal of the Government – President NasheedDate:08/11/2010 Addressing the people of Lhohi, the third stop of his tour of Noonu Atoll, President Mohamed Nasheed said upholding the principles of freedom of expression and safeguarding people’s liberty were the most important goals of the government...
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Monday, 8 November 2010Last Modified:
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MALTA: Libel judgement did not restrict freedom of expression Date:30/03/2009 The First Hall in Constitutional jurisdiction, presided over by Mr Justice Geoffrey Valenzia, held last week that a judgement which found that a PN councillor in the Fgura local council and the editor of In-Nazzjon Taghna were guilty of libel against the Fgura local council did not restrict the freedom of expression of the PN councillor and editor...
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Monday, 30 March 2009Last Modified:
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Mauritania: Jailed newspaper editor pardoned by junta chief Date:14/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders hails the release of Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, the editor of the weekly Al Aqsa, on 8 April as a result of a pardon issued by the head of the military government, Gen...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009Last Modified:
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Mauritania: Leading journalist escapes murder attemptDate:15/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders today voiced its outrage following a murder attempt against Mohamed Ould Zeine, editor of the independent Arab-language daily El Wattan and star presenter on Radio Mauritania...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
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Mexican newspaper to cartels: 'We do not want more deaths'Date:20/09/2010 On the same day friends and family buried slain photographer Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, the newspaper he worked for, El Diario, in an unprecedented move published an open letter to the drug cartels operating in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
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Monday, 20 September 2010Last Modified:
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Mexico: ARTICLE 19 Expresses Serious Concerns over AssaultDate:27/04/2009 A prominent political cartoonist, Mario Robles, of the newspaper Noticias Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca in western Mexico was violently assaulted and subjected to death threats by members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on 19 April...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Article 19 Submission to UN Human Rights CommitteeDate:13/07/2009 ARTICLE 19 has called attention to key freedom of expression issues in Mexico, including the State’s failure to protect journalist and human rights defenders from attacks, and a broadcasting system that fails to promote public interest broadcasting...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Congress should federalize crimes against free expression Date:07/04/2009 The Mexican Congress must move expeditiously to approve a constitutional reform granting federal authorities jurisdiction over crimes against free expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Crime reporter abducted and killed in Durango stateDate:28/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by the murder of Eliseo Barrón Hernández, 36, a crime reporter for the daily Milenio Torreón and several regional media, whose body was found in an irrigation ditch in the northern state of Durango yesterday, a day after he was kidnapped from his home...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Journalists media outlets come under pressure after criticising public officialsDate:15/07/2009 Edilia Contreras Álvarez and Enrique Romero Vara, hosts respectively of the Voz Informativa and Sin censura radio programmes in Palenque, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, have said that the owners of the media outlets for which they work are being pressured by a local congressional deputy, Juan Carlos López Fernández, with the objective of censoring them and having them taken off the air...
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Mexico: Military personnel harass ''La Jornada Guerrero'' newspaper reporterDate:07/07/2009 Jesús Rodríguez Montes, a correspondent for the daily La Jornada Guerrero, was interrogated and photographed at a military checkpoint in Huamuxtitlán, Guerrero state, southeastern Mexico...
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MEXICO: National Human Rights Commission detects irregularities in investigation into assassination of journalist Bradley WillDate:03/10/2008 The Mexican National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has published recommendations directed at the Mexican government, the Oaxaca State Congress and the national and state Attorney General's Offices after having detected irregularities in the investigation into the assassination of journalist Bradley Will, who was killed on 27 October 2007 while covering conflicts that were taking place in the Oaxaca State, Southern Mexico...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
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MEXICO: Owner of 'La Noticia' newspaper in Michoacán kidnapped and found deadDate:16/10/2008 On the night of October 9, in the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas in the western state of Michoacán, the owner of La Noticia Newspaper was kidnapped and his body later found in La Unión municipality, in the neighboring state of Guerrero to the southeast...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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Mexico: Reform of the Federal Penal Code Falls Short in Protecting the Right to Freedom of ExpressionDate:17/04/2009 The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has approved an incomplete reform to confront the prevailing impunity for crimes against journalists in the country, after a long consultative process among legislators, journalists, academics and civil society, including ARTICLE 19...
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Friday, 17 April 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Reporter under threat killed on World Press Freedom DayDate:01/07/2009 A Mexican journalist who was critical of local authorities in the northern state of Durango was assassinated on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day Carlos Ortega Samper, a reporter for the daily El Tiempo de Durango and also an attorney, was ambushed by two pickup trucks on his way home...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Supreme Court to review case involving writer and former first ladyDate:10/06/2009 On 4 June 2009, Mexico's Supreme Court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN) decided to admit for examination an appeal for constitutional relief brought forward by writer Olga Wornat...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: The Right to Freedom of Expression of ActivistsDate:23/06/2009 ARTICLE 19, together with local partner organisations in Mexico, is calling on the Governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, to investigate several sustained attacks against Agustín Estrada Negrete, a special needs school teacher, and his lawyer, Jaime Genaro López Vela...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico: Three Journalists Murdered in First Weeks of 2010Date:04/02/2010 For immediate release – 3 February 2010 Mexico: Three Journalists Murdered in First Weeks of 2010 ARTICLE 19 calls on the Mexican authorities to fully and immediately investigate the killings of another three journalists in recent weeks...
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Thursday, 4 February 2010Last Modified:
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MEXICO: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - Article 19 Mexico Launches a Nationwide Campaign for The Protection of Journalists Date:11/12/2008 On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ARTICLE 19 launches a campaign to protect those that are at the forefront of reporting human rights abuses and informing the public about the state of the world...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
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Mexico: President Calderon warns that organized crime is biggest threat to press freedoms in MexicoDate:09/11/2010 …
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010Last Modified:
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Mexican crime reporter abducted and slain in Durango StateDate:03/11/2009 New York, November 3, 2009;Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009Last Modified:
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Mexican Editor Detained, InterrogatedDate:11/01/2010 As Mexico prepared to mark the twin anniversary of its 1810 War of Independence and 1910 Revolution -events ushered in with cries of freedom and justice- a prominent newsman was detained and interrogated because of an article he wrote...
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Monday, 11 January 2010Last Modified:
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Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killedDate:27/05/2009 Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico this morning after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports...
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Mexican journalists create group against attacksDate:07/01/2010 Mexican journalists have formed an advocacy group in response to attacks on reporters...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010Last Modified:
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Mexican Journalists March to Denounce Violence, IntimidationDate:09/08/2010 Hundreds of Mexican journalists marched Saturday in this capital and other cities nationwide in defense of freedom of expression and to demand an end to violence, intimidation and harassment...
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Monday, 9 August 2010Last Modified:
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Mexican Journalists March to Denounce Violence, IntimidationDate:09/08/2010 Hundreds of Mexican journalists marched Saturday in this capital and other cities nationwide in defense of freedom of expression and to demand an end to violence, intimidation and harassment...
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Mexico criticised for weak protection of journalists.Date:22/07/2009 The federal government attributes 78 percent of Mexico's attacks against the press to private individuals and organized crime, but freedom of expression advocates blame authorities for at least 49 percent of the incidents, Liliana Alcántara reports for El Universal...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009Last Modified:
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Mexico Journalists Kidnapped as Drug Cartels Threaten Freedom of SpeechDate:29/07/2010 Mexican gang members took at least three journalists hostage this week in Durango state after the reporters investigated alleged links between prison officials and drug groups, the state attorney general’s office said...
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Thursday, 29 July 2010Last Modified:
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Mexico Journalists Kidnapped as Drug Cartels Threaten Freedom of SpeechDate:30/07/2010 Mexican gang members took at least three journalists hostage this week in Durango state after the reporters investigated alleged links between prison officials and drug groups, the state attorney general’s office said...
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Friday, 30 July 2010Last Modified:
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United Nations Unveils in Mexico Mural Advocating Freedom of ExpressionDate:23/07/2009 The United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, inaugurated here a mural advocating this right in Mexico, a country where attacks on reporters have increased in recent years...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009Last Modified:
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Moldova: Authorities harass peaceful protestorDate:02/02/2009 The Moldovan authorities continue to obstruct and harass peaceful protests despite a new law on assembly, Amnesty International said today in response to the detention of a peaceful protestor in the capital Chisinau...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
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Moldova: Failure to uphold freedom of expressionDate:06/02/2009 Police in the capital, Chisinau, were said to have taken no action yesterday as several participants in a peaceful demonstration - including the Chair of Amnesty International's branch in Moldova, Igor Grosu - were injured by masked attackers...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
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MOLDOVA: Proposed secrecy law threatens opennessDate:27/12/2008 ARTICLE 19 has prepared an in-depth analysis of the draft Law of Moldova on State Secrets...
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Saturday, 27 December 2008Last Modified:
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Montenegro: ARTICLE 19 Provides Analysis of Broadcasting LawDate:14/09/2009 ARTICLE 19 has produced a Note analysing the Montenegrin draft Law on Electronic Media...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
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Morocco: Advances and reverses for press freedom during King Mohammed’s first decadeDate:27/07/2009 Real progress at the start of King Mohammed’s reign has been followed by reverses and tension, especially from 2002 onwards, Reporters Without Borders said today in an evaluation of the state of press freedom in Morocco on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Mohammed VI’s accession to the throne on 23 July 1999...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
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Morocco: Egyptian human rights activist refused visa to visit MoroccoDate:27/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the Moroccan government’s surprising decision to deny a visa to Gamal Eid, an Egyptian human rights activist...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
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Morocco: In Quaddafi case, Moroccan court hands down harsh judgementDate:03/07/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a Moroccan court decision today to impose fines and damages on three independent dailies for publicly harming Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and injuring his dignity...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Morocco/Western Sahara: Immediately Release Human Rights DefenderDate:23/02/2009 Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender, Chekib El-Khiari, head of the Association for Human Rights in the Rif (Association du Rif des droits de lhomme) who is in custody of the National Bureau of the Judicial Police of Casablanca since 17 February 2009...
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Monday, 23 February 2009Last Modified:
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Moroccan bloggers create first association Date:01/05/2009 Moroccan online writers formed the Association of Moroccan Bloggers early this month at a conference in Rabat...
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Friday, 1 May 2009Last Modified:
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Moroccan journalists face charges of defaming Qaddafi Date:19/05/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by the start of court proceedings today against five Moroccan journalists charged with publicly harming Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, left, and hurting his dignity...
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009Last Modified:
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Mozambique / Government condemns attacks on press, identifies MISA as a strategic partnerDate:16/03/2009 The Mozambican government firmly and vehemently condemns all acts that attack press freedom, declared Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane, on 12 March 2009...
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Monday, 16 March 2009Last Modified:
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Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Gets 1.5 Years, Regime Removes Last Obstacle to Rigging 2010 ElectionsDate:11/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 joins the chorus of international voices raised in protest today as the Burmese leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to one and a half years under house arrest...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009Last Modified:
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BURMA: Crackdown on Freedom of Speech Condemned Date:16/12/2008 The World Association of Newspapers condemned the crackdown on freedom of expression in Burma, in a press statement released on Monday...
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008Last Modified:
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Burma: Growing restrictions on free flow of informationDate:18/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns a new wave of obstacles that Burma’s military government has imposed on Internet usage as well as its expulsion of two American journalism teachers on 6 May...
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Monday, 18 May 2009Last Modified:
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Burma: International media consortium urges press freedom during elections Date:26/10/2010 Thirty-three media organisations from across the globe are appealing to the Burmese government to respect the rights of Burmese citizens, and specifically the media, during next month’s general election...
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010Last Modified:
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BURMA: Journalist and opposition member Ohn Kyaing arrested again Date:03/10/2008 Reporters Without Borders and Burma Media Association have called for the immediate release of well-known former journalist Ohn Kyaing, who was arrested at his home on 1 October 2008...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
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Burma: Launch of Simmering Under AshesDate:07/08/2009 'ARTICLE 19 is marking tomorrow’s anniversary of 8888 – the date that marks the violent suppression of demonstrators in Burma – by launching Simmering Under Ashes, a collection of essays, poems, stories and articles written by Burmese journalists, writers and ordinary people' To continue reading the article follow the above link...
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Friday, 7 August 2009Last Modified:
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Burma: Make Ban's visit meaningfulDate:03/07/2009 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his trip to Burma should press the ruling generals to publicly commit to the release of all political prisoners and to engage in a dialogue with the opposition that leads to genuine political reforms, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Burma: Military censors close Rangoon-based weekly for goodDate:02/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association condemn the indefinite closure of the Rangoon-based weekly Phoenix by the military government’s censorship board on 21 August...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009Last Modified:
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Burma: Three journalists released under junta’s amnestyDate:21/09/2009 “I am happy to be free and I am going to continue working as a journalist, ” Eint Khaing Oo said as she was freed today from Insein prison, near Rangoon under an amnesty announced by the military government for nearly 7, 000 detainees...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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Burma: Two journalists released, 12 still languish in Burma’s jails Date:23/09/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of two journalists as part of a mass amnesty in Burma, but calls upon the military-run government to release the other 12 reporters it still holds in detention...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
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Burma's hip-hop resistance spreads message of freedomDate:27/04/2011 Thxa Soe's music gives country's youth a focus for dissatisfaction with the junta despite strict censorship...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Burma's junta pays no heed to Freedom of ExpressionDate:01/12/2010 Reporters from private journals and periodicals in Burma were inadmissible to be present at a press conference of a United Nation's special envy to Burma held before his departure on 28 November evening, according to sources in Rangoon...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2010Last Modified:
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Burma's Press Censored on NLD DecisionDate:01/04/2010 Outside Burma the reactions of the press and observers to the National League for Democracy's (NLD's) decision not to contest this year's election have been numerous and varied, but inside Burma the military government's Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD) is forcing newspapers and other publications to publish the official line on the NLD decision, if they publish at all...
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Thursday, 1 April 2010Last Modified:
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Burmese censor board suspends one issue of weekly journalDate:01/06/2009 The Ministry of Information’s censor board suspended this week’s issue of the Phoenix Journal after it published several censored news articles...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
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Burmese court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet gets two-year sentenceDate:12/11/2008 A court in Rangoons notorious Insein prison on November 10 meted out a combined prison term of 20 years to popular blogger Nay Phone Latt ...
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008Last Modified:
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Burmese junta censors story on arrest of murder suspectDate:27/04/2009 Local weekly journals in Rangoon said they have been prohibited from publishing follow-up news on a murder case in Botahtaung Township...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi undecided on junta's electionsDate:11/02/2010 Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says that the military-run country's upcoming elections cannot be credible unless the government allows freedom of information, her party said Wednesday...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010Last Modified:
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Namibia: Concern over appointment of ruling party activist to communications boardDate:27/04/2009 Cabinet recently endorsed the appointment of the controversial Editor of the SWAPO Party newspaper, Asser Landulandje Ntinda, as board member of the Namibia Communications Commission (NCC)...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
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Namibia: Dismissal of NBC Director General Bob Kandetu and issues at NBC. And concern over defamation cases against mediaDate:06/02/2009 MISA expresses its concern on recent developments at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) resulting in the dismissal of the Director General Bob V Kandetu...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Namibia: Information Communication Bill reintroduced in ParliamentDate:05/06/2009 Namibia's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has gazetted the Information Communications Bill...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
NAMIBIA: New Bill On Communication Interception Free Expression, Says MisaDate:25/11/2008 The Namibian chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Namibia) has noted with grave concern the provision for Interception of Electronic Communications in the draft Information Communication Bill...
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008Last Modified:
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Namibia / Ruling Party Newspaper Sued For DefamationDate:26/08/2009 The Executive Director of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), Phil ya Nangoloh, threatened to sue the ruling South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)’s mouthpiece, “Namibia Today”, for N$250 000 (U$31 250) in defamation after the paper called him a “pathological liar”...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
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NEPAL: CA Members Vow to Stand for Press FreedomDate:12/11/2008 Constituent Assembly (CA) members from some 12 parites said on Tuesday that they would see to it that the new constitution guarantees freedom of opinion and expression...
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008Last Modified:
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NEPAL: Beyond hooliganism, undermining of a free mediaDate:24/11/2008 The escalating number of violent attacks on certain parts of the Nepali media can no longer be regarded as hooliganism - instead they point to an organised assault on freedom of expression in Nepal...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
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Nepal: Government Adopts Regressive Film RegulationDate:31/03/2009 Amendments to Nepal's Regulation on Film (Production, Exhibition and Distribution) 2057 (2001 AD) were published in the Official Gazette on 2 February 2009...
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nepal: Increase in physical attacks on journalists and news media in AugustDate:27/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by a recent increase in press freedom violations, including the torching of thousands of newspapers and physical attacks on journalists by demonstrators, officials and police...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
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Nepal: Journalists leave their district after receiving death threatsDate:09/07/2009 Labadev Dhungana, the former district president of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in Panchthar, and Kumar Ojha, an FNJ member, have been displaced from the Panchthar district due to death threats issued by members of the Unified CPN Maoists party...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
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Nepal: New Government Must Safeguard Freedom of ExpressionDate:01/06/2009 ARTICLE 19, along with the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and Freedom Forum (FF), congratulate Madhav Kumar Nepal on his election as Prime Minister of Nepal...
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Monday, 1 June 2009Last Modified:
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Nepal: Television team assaulted; Maoist supporters set fire to copies of dailyDate:12/06/2009 On the morning of 11 June 2009, at approximately 9:00 a...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nepal radio journalist murdered Date:19/01/2009 A young woman journalist has been murdered in southern Nepal...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Netherlands: By convicting former journalist, international court tries to muzzle coverage of its activitiesDate:15/09/2009 'Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s decision by the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to find former journalist Florence Hartmann guilty of contempt for revealing an agreement which the tribunal secretly reached with the Serbian government in connection with the trial of former President Slobodan Milosevic...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
NETHERLANDS: Free Speech on TrialDate:04/02/2009 Not long ago, conventional political wisdom viewed Western democracy as the end of history, an ideal, final phase in human society wherein the liberty and rights of citizens were fully realized and guaranteed...
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
NETHERLANDS: Hate speech - is it ever ok?Date:15/01/2009 The Public Prosecutors Office in the Netherlands is investigating whether to prosecute anti-Israel demonstrators for using hate speech...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Netherlands: Royal family seeks court injunction against AP over holiday photosDate:10/08/2009 'Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the court injunction which Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, have sought against the US news agency, the Associated Press, to force it to stop distributing recent photos of them and their five-year-old daughter, Princess Catharina-Amalia, at an Argentine ski resort...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:30/01/2009 Geert Wilders is a name that has left people talking from all parts of the world...
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Friday, 30 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Dutch lawmaker back in court for hate speech caseDate:10/02/2011 AMSTERDAM;Lawyers for Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said Monday that if their client's hate-speech case is not dismissed they want a retrial with new defense witnesses including the country's most notorious convicted terrorist...
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Thursday, 10 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Dutch MP to be tried for views on IslamDate:22/01/2009 The Far-right Dutch politician who gained global notoriety with a film claiming links between the Koran and terrorism is to be put on trial for his public statements against Islam...
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Thursday, 22 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Dutch politician on trial for hate speech Date:05/10/2010 Dutch politician Geert Wilders appealed for freedom of expression Monday as he went on trial for alleged hate speech...
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Tuesday, 5 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
New Zealand: PFF urges investigation into broadcaster's suspension Date:17/07/2009 Regional media watchdog the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF) is encouraging the management of New Zealand's flagship Pacific Islands radio station Niu FM 531pi to launch an independent investigation into the June suspension - and then reinstatement - of veteran Fiji journalist Bulou Amalaini Ligalevu...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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NICARAGUA: Authorities’ harassment of NGOs threatens freedom of expressionDate:10/10/2008 Nicaraguan NGO, the Centre for Investigation and Communication (CINCO), is the most recent victim of the Nicaraguan authorities' repeated attempts to curb the activities of non governmental organisations in the country, particularly those receiving international funding, on the grounds that they may threaten state sovereignty or because of their human rights activities or alleged political affiliation...
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Friday, 10 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega's Media WarDate:03/07/2009 On the afternoon of April 2, a caravan of official limousines sped through the streets of Managua toward the international airport...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Nicaragua: Fighting back against Nicaragua's war on the mediaDate:03/07/2009 'What is happening in Nicaragua when it comes to press freedom? A CPJ report found that President Daniel Ortega is waging a war against the media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Nicaragua: Fighting back against Nicaragua's war on the mediaDate:03/07/2009 'What is happening in Nicaragua when it comes to press freedom? A CPJ report found that President Daniel Ortega is waging a war against the media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nicaragua: Fighting back against Nicaragua's war on the mediaDate:03/07/2009 'What is happening in Nicaragua when it comes to press freedom? A CPJ report found that President Daniel Ortega is waging a war against the media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nicaragua: Fighting back against Nicaragua's war on the mediaDate:03/07/2009 'What is happening in Nicaragua when it comes to press freedom? A CPJ report found that President Daniel Ortega is waging a war against the media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nicaragua: Fighting back against Nicaragua's war on the mediaDate:03/07/2009 'What is happening in Nicaragua when it comes to press freedom? A CPJ report found that President Daniel Ortega is waging a war against the media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Nicaragua: Fighting back against Nicaragua's war on the mediaDate:03/07/2009 What is happening in Nicaragua when it comes to press freedom? A CPJ report found that President Daniel Ortega is waging a war against the media...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nigeria: Country, OIC, Move Against Religious DefamationDate:23/10/2009 Nigeria amongst other African countries and Organisation of Islamic Countries, OIC, is proposing what human rights organisations have described as a potentially dangerous bill to the United Nations on defamation of religion ...
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Friday, 23 October 2009Last Modified:
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Nigeria: Freedom of Expression Vs. Character AssassinationDate:09/03/2009 Nigeria as a state has majority of its citizens coming from the major religions of Islam and Christianity...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
NIGERIA: 'Govt Won't Influence Passage of FoI Bill'Date:26/11/2008 As the nation still waits for the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill (FoI) now before the National Assembly, the Federal Government has promised not to influence the passage of the bill...
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008Last Modified:
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NIGERIA: News blogger detainedDate:23/10/2008 A US-based Nigerian news blogger is being held without charge by Nigerias secret service...
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Thursday, 23 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nigeria: Police urged to consider all possibilities in newspaper editor’s murderDate:23/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the murder of Bayo Ohu, the assistant news editor of the Lagos-based daily The Guardian...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
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Nigeria: Promoting Access to Information and the Right to HealthDate:01/05/2009 Participants at two pilot workshops organised by ARTICLE 19, in partnership with the Center for the Right to Health (CRH) and Media Rights Agenda(MRA), have adopted strategies promoting the right of access to information in health matters in two Nigerian: Enugu and Lagos...
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Friday, 1 May 2009Last Modified:
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Nigeria: Saharawi Mothers Seek Permission for Children's TripDate:11/08/2009 The mothers of the six Saharawi youngsters, who were prevented from travelling to London, by Moroccan authorities at the airport in Agadir, Morocco on Wednesday, have expressed support to their sons...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009Last Modified:
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NIGERIA: The ambiguity in section 2(1) FOI Bill - matters arisingDate:21/10/2008 IT is a truism that a free press is essential to modern democracy...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Nigeria: Two journalists held by Kano state police released Date:10/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders hails the release of two journalists who were arrested by the Kano state police in connection with reports about Kano's governor...
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Friday, 10 July 2009Last Modified:
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Nigeria / Journalist released after one week in custodyDate:27/03/2009 Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the release on 24 March of Akin Orimolade, bureau chief in the central city of Abuja for Lagos-based weekly National Life...
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Friday, 27 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
KOREA: Political parties in disagreement over Cyber Slander ActDate:06/10/2008 Political parties in Korea have clashed over the introduction of the Cyber Slander Act...
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Monday, 6 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
North Korea: Bill Clinton in North Korea to Seek Release of U.S. Reporters Date:04/08/2009 Former President Bill Clinton landed in North Korea on Tuesday to negotiate the release of two American television journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korean territory, according to a person briefed on the mission...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
North Korea: In Release of Journalists, Both Clintons Had Key Roles Date:05/08/2009 Former President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday morning after a dramatic 20-hour visit, in which he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea’s reclusive government and dined with the North’s ailing leader, Kim Jong-il...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
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North Korea: Lee and Ling: 'Instinctively, we ran.'Date:03/09/2009 Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested by North Korean police on March 17 for allegedly entering the country illegally and carrying out hostile acts...
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Thursday, 3 September 2009Last Modified:
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North Korea to indict US journalists: state mediaDate:31/03/2009 North Korea is preparing to indict two detained US journalists after it accused them of illegally entering the communist country, state media said early Tuesday...
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Korean Cyber Defamation Law causes trouble for GoogleDate:14/04/2009 New Korean law forbids netizens from making anonymous comments South Korea has began to enforce a new law limiting anonymous uploads and commentary, at the start of this month...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009Last Modified:
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North Korea sentences U.S. journalists to 12 years Date:08/06/2009 We released this statement today after a North Korean court found U...
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Monday, 8 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
North Korea will try American journalistsDate:27/04/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today after North Korea announced that it would try American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee on unspecified criminal charges, according to international news reports...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
NORWAY: Freedom of expression, censorship and multiculturalismDate:09/02/2009 It is in the public debate on the way in which the principle of freedom of expression is exercised that ethical issues and transgressions must be addressed - but not by placing constraints on the principle of freedom of expression, says William Nygaard...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
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Norwegian Freedom Award given to jailed CubanDate:29/05/2009 Imprisoned Independent journalist Normando Hernández has been awarded the Norwegian Writers Association’s annual “Freedom of Expression” award...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
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Oman: Website moderator gets 10-day suspended prison sentenceDate:23/04/2009 A court in Muscat yesterday gave website moderator Ali Al Zwaidi a 10-day suspended prison sentence and a fine of 200 rials (400 euros) for posting an allegedly confidential government document online, but dismissed a charge of defamation that had been pending against him since August 2008...
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Thursday, 23 April 2009Last Modified:
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Briefing: Pakistani journalists face Taliban, military threatsDate:01/05/2009 Journalists in Pakistan have come under rapidly escalating pressure as the military confronts Taliban militants in the northwest region of the country...
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Friday, 1 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: Taliban partially lift ban on cable TV broadcasting in Swat valleyDate:09/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders calls on the Pakistani authorities and Taliban leaders to ensure that cable TV operators in the Swat valley are able to resume broadcasting of both Pakistani and international TV stations without delay...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
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Pakistan: “Extreme military pressure” forces closure of dailyDate:27/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders said today it was shocked by the closure of Pakistani Urdu-languge daily Asaap...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
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Pakistan: Afghan journalist’s murder in Pakistan must not go unpunishedDate:21/09/2009 Afghan journalist Jaah Hashimzada’s murder on 24 August in Jamrud, in northwestern Pakistan, has sown terror and disarray...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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Pakistan: Afghan journalist’s murder in Pakistan must not go unpunishedDate:21/09/2009 Afghan journalist Jaah Hashimzada’s murder on 24 August in Jamrud, in northwestern Pakistan, has sown terror and disarray...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: Cameran suffers serious injuries while reporting on clash at collegeDate:16/10/2008 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned for the safety of journalists and media workers in Pakistan after a cameraman received serious gunshot wounds while reporting on a clash between students at a college in Karachi on October 12...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: Govt believes in freedom of expression - Sumsam BakhariDate:10/11/2008 Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Syed Sumsam Bukhari said in the Senate on Monday that the PPP government and its allies believe in freedom of expression and all possible steps would be taken to protect this right...
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Monday, 10 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: Govt believes in freedom of expression, says KairaDate:18/03/2009 Federal Minister for Information, Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas Chaudhry Qamaruzzaman Kaira said that the government believed in the freedom of expression and neither had it banned the media in the past nor would do so in the future...
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009Last Modified:
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PAKISTAN: Govt believes in freedom of expression, says Sherry Date:21/01/2009 Information Minister Sherry Rehman on Monday denied reports that alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari had made derogatory remark about journalists...
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Wednesday, 21 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: Govt to repeal all black laws affecting Freedom of Expression Date:17/11/2008 Condemning all kinds of restrictions over private TV channels, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, along with Provincial officials, and political leaders have expressed their strong resolve to repeal all black laws affecting freedom of expression...
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Monday, 17 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan: HRCP flays delay in arrest of journalist’s abductorsDate:07/09/2010 The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday condemned the abduction and manhandling of journalist Umar Cheema and the delay in arresting his abductors...
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Tuesday, 7 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan: HRCP hits out at penalty to curtail SMS, emailDate:20/07/2009 The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the government’s move to use state power to prosecute certain kind of messaging through cellular phone networks and content on the websites...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: Media workers deserve long over-due pay rise, says IFJDate:11/11/2008 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins journalists and media workers in Pakistan in calling on Pakistan's Government to honour a commitment made by President Asif Zardari in March to ensure implementation of wage rises for newspaper employees which have been stalled since 2001...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan: More journalists' homes destroyed, damaged in ongoing conflictDate:15/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely concerned by acts of violence and intimidation targeting journalists in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, after the family homes of two journalists were bombed by militant insurgents...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan: Taliban militants blow up journalist's house in Buner districtDate:15/07/2009 The home of Rahman Buneri, a correspondent for Voice of America's (VOA) Pashto-language service, Deewa Radio, was blown up on 9 July 2009 by the Pakistani Taliban in the militancy plagued Buner district of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: TV channels' suspension an outrage, violates freedom of expressionDate:18/11/2008 The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed grave concern at two independent news channels being taken off air in Sindh on Monday and called the action an 'unpardonable attack on freedom of expression'...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PAKISTAN: UK Lawyers Condemn blocking TV channels and citizen freedomDate:16/03/2009 Association of Pakistani Lawyers a team of Pakistani origin lawyers, Solicitors, Barristers, Judges in UK jointly condemn blocking TV transmissions in Pakistan in the wake of lawyers long March 2009, and regret to note that curbs on Article 19 freedom is ordered in a democratic reign of democratic parties not in military dictatorship...
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Monday, 16 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan minister shot dead on way to cabinet meeting in IslamabadDate:02/03/2011 Pakistan's minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, has been assassinated by unidentified gunmen in the capital, Islamabad...
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan minorities minister shot dead in IslamabadDate:02/03/2011 Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti has died after gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Islamabad, hospital officials say...
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pakistan unveils cybercrime lawsDate:07/11/2008 Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has issued a decree making internet crime punishable with death or imprisonment with heavy fines...
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Friday, 7 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Panamanian journalist sentenced to two years in prisonDate:01/05/2009 A Panama City court has sentenced leading Panamanian journalist Jean Marcel Chéry to two years in prison on trespassing charges stemming from a years-long series of complaints filed by a Supreme Court justice...
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Friday, 1 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Freedom of Expression: Whether Papuans support autonomy or independence, they should be allowed to speak freelyDate:27/10/2008 Yohana Pekei and Nelly Pigome sell handicrafts by the road in Jayapura...
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Monday, 27 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Peru: Attacks to human rights and freedom of expressionDate:15/06/2009 The bloody events in the Peruvian town of Bagua began when the police removed a road blockade of indigenous people protesting against a law (DL 1090) they believe undermines their ancestral rights to their territory...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Peru: Controversial bill would restrict freedom of opinionDate:21/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders urges legislators to reject a government bill submitted to parliament yesterday that would toughen the provisions regulating the publication of corrections and retractions in the media and would increase the penalties for violators...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Peru: Government maintains ban on Amazonian radio station silenced since JuneDate:22/09/2009 The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) has maintained its arbitrary ban on Radio La Voz de Bagua, a station based in Peru’s northern Amazonas region, refusing on 15 September to allow it to resume broadcasting...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Enrile to SC: Please act with restraint Date:27/10/2010 MANILA, Philippines;Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile has asked the Supreme Court to cleanse itself and its ranks instead of penalizing those who criticize the institution because of the plagiarism allegation against its member...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
NUJP Davao: “Nograles has unmasked himself as a bully” Date:19/06/2009 “Speaker Prospero Nograles has unmasked himself as a bully, one with no qualms about brandishing the power of his high office to threaten journalists going about their jobs with libel suits and the passage of the unconstitutional Right of Reply Bill, ” the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Davao City chapter said...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Philippine murder case granted change of venueDate:01/09/2009 A Supreme Court decision to allow a change of venue in the trial of three suspects accused of murdering journalist Dennis Cuesta, at left, in August 2008 sets a hopeful precedent in the fight against impunity in media killings in the Philippines...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Supreme Court moves trial in Philippine attackDate:24/09/2009 'The Committee to Protect Journalists applauds a Philippine Supreme Court decision to grant a change of venue in the trial of a defendant in the attempted murder of radio journalist Nilo Labares, who was shot and injured in Cagayan de Oro City in March...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Filipino journalists dying for freedom of expressionDate:10/08/2009 'Philippines, August 7, 2009 (Pal Telegraph)- Filipino journalists are paying too high a price for exercising their freedom of expression, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with promoting a free press said yesterday...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: 2008 tragic year for press freedom in RP - media groupDate:30/12/2008 An officer of the Philippine National Press Club (NPC) said Monday that 2008 was a tragic year for press freedom in the country, with seven local journalists being killed and several others getting death threats...
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: A journalist on army target list, another shot, possibly by soldierDate:22/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that a journalist and two human rights groups were on an armed forces “order of battle” list of surveillance targets in the south of Mindanao Island in 2007 because of their alleged links to the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army...
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Brutal Killing Undermines Freedom of ExpressionDate:24/11/2009 At least 39 people were viciously killed when a convoy they were travelling in was attacked in the Philippines on 23 November...
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: CA denies FG’s plea to scrap class suit Date:02/03/2009 The Court of Appeals has denied First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo's motion for reconsideration of an earlier ruling that mandated the Makati regional trial court to continue hearing the P12...
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Monday, 2 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Gov't Cautions Lawmakers On Infringing Press Freedom Date:27/02/2009 Malacañang (Philippine presidential palace) cautioned lawmakers against impinging upon the freedoms of expression and of the press should Congress decide to pass the controversial right of reply bill...
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Friday, 27 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: IFJ welcomes press freedom commitment, new Asean bodyDate:09/03/2009 An international media watchdog group welcomed Tuesday the formation of the Legislative Caucus on Rights and Free Expression, a new regional body of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to promote press freedom...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Judge Lifts Warrant on Suspect in Davao Journalist’s SlayDate:16/02/2009 The warrant of arrest issued against Inspector Redempto Acharon, main suspect in the killing of Davao-based radio broadcaster Dennis Cuesta, was lifted by the very judge who issued it...
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Monday, 16 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: List of targets exposes activists to abduction, killing Date:03/06/2009 When the 67-page PowerPoint presentation containing the list of 105 names of persons, including lawyers, union leaders, religious leaders, human rights and political activists, appeared in public after having been reportedly leaked by a military source, what immediately came to mind was that the reaction and implications were reminiscent of the recent past: victims and their organisation being exposed as targets of abductions and killings...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Media self-regulation enough, CHR chief saysDate:03/03/2009 Self-regulation and not legislation is the key to a responsible media, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said Friday as it slammed a measure proposing to require media organizations to print or air replies of personalities accused and criticized in news reports...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Nograles 'meddling' in release of libel convict hitDate:06/01/2009 Lawyer and professor Harry Roque on Tuesday expressed dismay over the circumstances behind the release of former radio broadcaster Alexander Adonis from a Davao prison, saying press freedom is still under attack...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Palace frowns upon 'right of reply' bill Date:26/02/2009 Malacañang cautioned Congress yesterday that the Right of Reply Bill could infringe on press freedom as guaranteed under the Constitution...
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Thursday, 26 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Party-list solons back out from bill amending libel lawDate:03/03/2009 The militant bloc in the House of Representatives on Monday withdrew their authorship of a measure that supposedly consolidates bills decriminalizing libel after finding that the recently-approved measure did not reflect their original proposal...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Pimentel says no curtailment of press freedom in RORB Date:25/02/2009 If the press has the right to offend or to mortify, the people should have the right to reply...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Radio broadcaster shot deadDate:03/07/2009 The International Federation of Journalists urges immediate police investigation into the motive behind the fatal shooting of radio broadcaster Jonathan Fetalvero in Agusan del Sur province in the Philippines' troubled island of Mindanao...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Radio man finds freedom a new start Date:19/01/2009 Barely 20 days after his release from the Davao Penal Colony, jailed broadcaster Alexander Lex Adonis is back in action...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Slay try on Digos journalist condemned Date:02/03/2009 Media groups condemned on Sunday the attack on a broadcaster here by branding it as yet another case of assault on the freedom of the press and of expression...
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Monday, 2 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Stifling free speech in the workplaceDate:28/01/2009 The Philippine Supreme Court, in a decision handed down by its Second Division last November, has laid down a new doctrine that threatens to seriously undermine the exercise of the essential right to free speech and expression in the context of labor relations...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: The right to replyDate:09/03/2009 WHEN a senator or representative delivers a libelous accusation against another person, he incurs no liability because of his parliamentary immunity for any speech or debate within the halls of Congress...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: What is your take on the proposed Right of Reply Bill? Date:09/03/2009 Alexander B...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Court allows media suit vs Mike Arroyo to proceedDate:29/09/2008 The Court of Appeals has allowed the preliminary hearing in the amended class suit filed by media practitioners against the President's husband, Jose Miguel Mike Arroyo, to proceed in the Makati Regional Trial Court...
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Monday, 29 September 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Journalists hit PNP’s ‘refusal’ to provide spot reportsDate:19/10/2008 Media groups on Sunday criticized a directive prohibiting police from providing journalists with spot reports on crime incidents...
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Sunday, 19 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Media urged to prod gov’t on murders Date:11/12/2008 Philippine media should band together and prod the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to take more vigorous steps in addressing the killing of journalists all over the country...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
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PHILIPPINES: Media urged to prod gov’t on murders Date:12/12/2008 Philippine media should band together and prod the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to take more vigorous steps in addressing the killing of journalists all over the country...
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Friday, 12 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Philippine media group releases 2008 press freedom reportDate:30/03/2009 As the year 2008 ended, another radio broadcaster in Northern Samar in the Philippines was killed by unknown assailants...
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Monday, 30 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Radio journalist murdered, fourth this yearDate:01/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fatal shooting of radio presenter Jonathan Petalvero in a restaurant in Bayugan, in the southern province of Agusan del Sur...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Radio journalist shot dead in Surigao del Sur Date:28/07/2009 A radio broadcaster was shot dead early dawn today in the town of Barobo in Surigao del Sur...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
PHILIPPINES: Radioman shot dead in front of daughter Date:18/11/2008 They trailed him from home to school...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippines: Media groups oppose right of reply billDate:05/06/2009 Print and broadcast journalists together with other media groups on Thursday came out to air their strong opposition to the right of reply bill, which is being deliberated in Congress...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippine broadcast journalist shot deadDate:10/06/2009 Police in Mindoro Occidental province should immediately investigate the shooting murder of Philippine radio commentator Crispin Perez for possible links to his reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippine court denies motion for reconsideration by alleged masterminds behind Esperat slayDate:27/05/2009 The Philippine press gained another victory in its fight against impunity after a local court in Sultan Kudarat affirmed its earlier denial of the motion to dismiss the case against the alleged masterminds in the killing of journalist Marlene Esperat...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippine court turns down motion to dismiss murder charges against masterminds in journalist’s slayDate:20/04/2009 A local Philippine court denied on 7 April 2009 the motion to dismiss the murder charges against the alleged masterminds in the 2005 killing of journalist Marlene Esperat...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Philippine journalist killed in crossfireDate:04/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists offered condolences today to the family and colleagues of Philippine journalist Jojo Trajano, who was killed in crossfire during a police raid of an alleged organized crime den near Manila...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Phillipene Supreme Court SC backs GSIS employees’ right to rally Date:31/08/2010 The Supreme Court affirmed the exercise of freedom of expression and speech of employees of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) when in 2005, they wore red shirt and appeared at a hearing to show support to their union leader...
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mideast media freedom 'nowhere on agenda': reportDate:10/02/2009 Media freedom in the Middle East still faces many hurdles, despite waning state control on the flow of information, a Qatar-based media watchdog said in a report on Monday...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Qatar’s high and low roads to freedom of the pressDate:26/02/2009 The Qatar campus of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism rises formidably out of the desert like a temple to something grand, mysterious and exotic...
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Thursday, 26 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Romania: PM Boc: Government wants freedom of expression to be guaranteed Date:01/04/2009 The Government will be a genuine advocate of the press for avoiding the economic crisis effects in this field, as well, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Tuesday, during the meeting with the Romanian Press Club (CRP) officials, and assured that the freedom of expression would be guaranteed in Romania...
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Wednesday, 1 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Romanian Press Club calling for reticence to restricted freedom of expression Date:17/03/2009 The Romanian Press Club (CRP) is calling on the chairs of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as well as on parliamentarians and political leaders to display full reticence to what it claims are initiatives to restrict the freedom of expression attempted in the new Civil Code and seriously ponder on the consequences of promoting such initiatives, reads a press release issued by CRP on Monday (16 March)...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
A Newspaper ‘to Serve Society, Not the State’: Russia’s Novaya Gazeta Wins IPI Pioneer AwardDate:30/04/2009 Novaya Gazeta, the crusading Moscow newspaper that has paid a deadly price for its reporting during a period when the Kremlin has sought to rein in independent media, has been named winner of the International Press Institute's 2009 Free Media Pioneer Award...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
North Caucasus: Editor’s Killer is Released, as Conditions for Journalists’ Safety DeteriorateDate:11/03/2010 ARTICLE 19 is deeply concerned about recent developments in the case of the killing of website editor Magomed Yevloyev in Ingushetia, and about the impact this will have for the already dire situation for media freedom in the North Caucasus region...
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Thursday, 11 March 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Anatomy of InjusticeDate:15/09/2009 'It is a sad irony: While the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia itself is relapsing to some of its Soviet ways...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Artists and writers support Russian exhibition organizers charged with ‘inciting hatred’Date:27/07/2009 Yuri Samodurov, a former Moscow museum director, and the art curator Andrei Yerofeev, are due in court on Friday, facing charges of inciting hatred and offending human dignity - that could see them jailed for up to five years - after organizing a Moscow exhibition called Forbidden Art 2006...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RUSSIA: As newspaper designer dies, conflicting accounts emerge Date:02/04/2009 Police in the Moscow suburb of Khimki must conduct a thorough investigation into the sudden death of newspaper designer Sergei Protazanov, the circumstances of which are in dispute, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Chechen human rights advocate murderedDate:16/07/2009 ARTICLE 19 is shocked and deeply saddened by the killing on 15 July 2009 of Natalia Estemirova, a Chechen human rights activist and representative of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Chechen capital Grozny...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Drop Criminal Libel Charges Against ActivistDate:28/10/2009 Russian authorities should immediately drop criminal libel charges against Oleg Orlov, the prominent activist who heads Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Extradited Chechen Terrorism Suspect Freed Date:03/09/2009 Murat Gasayev, an ethnic Chechen accused of participation in an attack on government buildings in Ingushetia in June 2004, was released by Russian authorities without charge on August 28, 2009, after 10 months in pretrial detention...
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Thursday, 3 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Journalist convicted of defaming prison service by reporting detainee torture claimsDate:20/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist Elena Maglevannaya’s conviction by a court in the southern city of Volgograd of defaming the prison service in articles about torture in Russian prisons that she wrote for the website Vestnikcivitas...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Killing of NGO Activist Silences Another Independent Voice in ChechnyaDate:12/08/2009 Less than a month after the abduction and killing of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, another non-governmental activist and her husband have been abducted and killed in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny...
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Leading Chechnya rights activist murderedDate:17/07/2009 Natalia Estemirova, a leading human rights defender in Chechnya, was found shot dead in Ingushetia on July 15, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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RUSSIA: Medvedev calls for media freedomDate:06/11/2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for an end to media censorship Wednesday, during his first state of the nation address since his election last March...
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Thursday, 6 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: New delay in Politkovskaya case Date:06/08/2009 A retrial over the killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been adjourned, following a complaint by her relatives...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RUSSIA: Politkovskaya Trial Doors ClosedDate:18/11/2008 The trial of three men charged with involvement in the murder of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya will now be closed to the public, the judge says...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Report on seven Russian regions: as many reasons for hope as for concernDate:14/09/2009 'Reporters without Borders releases a report today on the freedom of the press and media in seven of the Russian Federation’s regions...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
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Russia: Russia must end impunity for murder of human rights activistsDate:17/08/2009 The bodies of human rights activist Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik (Umar) Dzhabrailov, were found in the boot of a car early Tuesday morning in the Chechen capital Grozny...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
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Russia: Shock at death of newspaper editor who was badly beaten two months agoDate:30/06/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn that newspaper editor Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, who spent several days in a coma after being attacked and beaten outside his home on 29 April, died today in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
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Russia: What can be expected from retrial of those accused in Politkovskaya murder?Date:05/08/2009 The retrial of three men who allegedly helped murder Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya opens before a military court tomorrow in Moscow...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
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Russia arrests deal a blow to free speech: U.S.Date:02/02/2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Caucasus: Continued Violence Against Journalists Symptomatic of Ongoing Repression in the RegionDate:18/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 is becoming increasingly concerned that acts of violence against journalists in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are on the rise...
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Monday, 18 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Moscow marches - but not for longDate:25/10/2010 No sooner had the placards and protestors headed home from Pushkinskaya Ploshchad than it emerged that Moscow’s brief autumn of discontent could soon fall victim to the winter chill...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Moscow OKs One Freedom-Of-Assembly Protest, Bans Another Date:29/03/2011 Moscow city authorities today officially approved a planned rally by a group of human rights and opposition activists in support of freedom of assembly, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011Last Modified:
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Russia convicts art experts over exhibitionDate:12/07/2010 MOSCOW ; A Russian court on Monday convicted the organisers of a provocative 2007 art exhibition of inciting hatred, fining them up to 6, 500 dollars in a case fiercely criticised by rights activists...
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Monday, 12 July 2010Last Modified:
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Russia tackled at U.N. over racism and media killingsDate:05/02/2009 Russia must do more to stop violence against minorities, torture by the police and army, murders of journalists and, recently, the killing of a human rights lawyer, delegates to a UN rights body said on Wednesday...
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Thursday, 5 February 2009Last Modified:
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Russia urged to find journalist's killersDate:23/02/2009 Russia came under international pressure Friday to find the killers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya after four men charged in connection with her murder were acquitted by a Moscow court...
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Monday, 23 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian billionaire drops libel case against EconomistDate:30/07/2009 A secretive Russian billionaire has abandoned his libel case against the Economist magazine after it suggested he had benefited from his close relationship with Vladimir Putin, Russia's former president turned prime minister...
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Thursday, 30 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian court blocks YouTubeDate:29/07/2010 A court in Russia has blocked access to YouTube after the website was accused of hosting extremist propaganda...
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Thursday, 29 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian Court Blocks YouTubeDate:30/07/2010 …
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Friday, 30 July 2010Last Modified:
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Russian minister not welcome in UK after Guardian reporter expelled – MPDate:09/02/2011 The government has been asked to revoke an invitation to the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, to visit the UK next week until Russia explains why it has expelled the Guardian journalist Luke Harding...
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Wednesday, 9 February 2011Last Modified:
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Russian newspaper founder arrested, criminally chargedDate:02/04/2009 Police in the western city of Kaliningrad should drop trumped-up bribery charges against Arseny Makhlov, the founder of the independent weekly Dvornik, and allow him to work without fear of harassment, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
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Rwanda: ARTICLE 19 Calls on Authorities to Uphold Free Expression Ahead of Presidential ElectionsDate:05/03/2010 ARTICLE 19 expresses grave concerns that press freedom in Rwanda is deteriorating and that criminal charges being brought against journalists in Rwanda will contribute to the silencing of independent media voices ahead of the presidential elections later this year...
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Rwanda: Communications and Electronic Information - New Law on MediaDate:09/03/2009 On February 23, 2009, the Lower Chamber of the Rwandan Parliament approved a new media law...
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Rwanda: House Divided Over Media Bill ClauseDate:14/01/2009 The Senate has proposed the amendment of 25 articles in the Media Bill but disagreement has ensued between the two Houses over one particular article concerning the money required for investors to set up a media house...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Rwanda: Independent weekly suspended for three monthsDate:10/08/2009 'Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the High Media Council’s decision on 5 August to ask the information ministry to close the independent weekly Umuseso for three months for likening the current government to the one that was in power in the run-up to the 1994 genocide...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
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Rwanda: Media Bill Amendment Welcome - Says JournalistsDate:27/05/2009 President Paul Kagame's move to re-table the media bill has received much acclaim from media practitioners and associations in the country...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
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Rwanda: New threat to ban BBC broadcastsDate:01/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders today voiced its indignation after the information minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, made a new threat to ban Kinyarwanda-language broadcasts by the BBC if the British radio did not change its editorial line...
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Rwanda: Rwandan minister: ‘It’s OK to be anti-government’Date:11/09/2009 'CPJ sat down recently with the Rwandan minister of information, Louise Mushikiwabo, who spoke of several media developments, including a new press law...
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Rwanda: Two journalists given jail sentences in separate cases two days apartDate:17/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of two journalists who have been given prison sentences in separate cases in the past few days...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
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Rwanda Newspaper Website is blocked before upcoming Presidential elections. Date:14/06/2010 A private run Rwandan newspaper known as the Umuvugizi has had its website blocked by the government...
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Monday, 14 June 2010Last Modified:
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Rwanda's new media law fails to protect sources Date:24/02/2009 Rwandas Lower Chamber of Parliament has unanimously passed the law governing the media after agreeing to all amendments made by a joint ad hoc committee, writes Robert Mugabe in The New Times...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
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Arab freedom of expression increasing: Saudi author Date:09/03/2009 Arab writers are enjoying greater freedom of expression, a Saudi female author said on Saturday, four years after a novel she wrote about the private lives of women caused controversy in her native Saudi Arabia...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
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Saudi Arabia: Countering Terrorism with RepressionDate:15/09/2009 'Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights in the name of countering terrorism...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
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Royal pardon for Saudi journalist sentenced to lashesDate:27/10/2009 Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has been called The King of Hearts by many of his countrymen, referring to what they believe are his compassionate attempts to reform his ultra-conservative kingdom...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009Last Modified:
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Saudi Arabia - human rights abuses in the name of fighting terrorismDate:27/07/2009 'The Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights under the façade of countering terrorism, Amnesty International said in a new report on Wednesday...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
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Saudi woman journalist sentenced to 60 lashesDate:25/10/2009 A Saudi woman journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in the LBC program “Bold Red Line” aired in mid-July, Suleiman Al-Jumaie, the lawyer representing Mazen Abdul Jawad, the prime offender in the case, told Arab News on Saturday...
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Sunday, 25 October 2009Last Modified:
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SENEGAL: Minister sues jailed newspaper editor for defamationDate:03/10/2008 El Malick Seck, editor-in-chief of 24 Heures Chrono, is to appear in court on defamation charges brought against him by Senegal's Minister of Interior, Sheikh Tidiane Sy...
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Senegal: Radio and television group blacked out for payment defaultDate:01/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders today voiced dismay at brutal methods used yesterday by police in Dakar who mounted a dawn raid to shut down the broadcast group Walfadjri...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
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SENEGAL: Three-year jail sentence for newspaper editor upheld on appealDate:25/02/2009 A Dakar appeal court yesterday upheld the three-year jail sentence passed on El Malick Seck, the editor of the Dakar-based daily 24 Heures Chrono, on 12 September for a vaguely-sourced report claiming the president and his son Karim were involved in money laundering in Côte d'Ivoire...
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SENEGAL: Training for Francophone West African Broadcasting Regulators Date:14/11/2008 West African Broadcasting Regulators recently assembled in Dakar, Senegal for a training workshop on improving Broadcasting Policy and Regulation in the francophone zone...
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Friday, 14 November 2008Last Modified:
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Senegal / Three community radio stations suspended for broadcasting political programmesDate:17/03/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by the National Council for Broadcasting Regulation (CNRA) on 14 March to suspend three community radio stations based in the Dakar suburbs for two months for violating the rules governing their operations by covering political issues relating to the current local election campaign...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009Last Modified:
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Senegal / UNOCI chief and counterparts participate in meeting on peace in West AfricaDate:06/02/2009 DAKAR, Sénégal, February 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
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Serbia: ANEM protests amendments to media lawsDate:17/07/2009 Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) is disappointed by the manner of changes of media laws in Serbia...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
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Serbia: Human rights activists under threat in SerbiaDate:17/09/2009 'Human rights defenders are under attack in Serbia and the authorities are failing to protect them, Amnesty International said on Monday...
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Thursday, 17 September 2009Last Modified:
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SERBIA: IPI/SEEMO supports amendments to draft law on personal data protectionDate:10/10/2008 The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), voices its support for proposed amendments forwarded to the Serbian National Parliament on 18 September 2008, altering the Draft Law on Personal Data Protection...
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Friday, 10 October 2008Last Modified:
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Serbia:Uncertainty over fate of media lawDate:28/07/2009 Parliament Speaker Slavica Dukic-Dejanovic said that it is very uncertain whether draft changes to the law on media will pass in parliament...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009Last Modified:
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Sierra Leone: Analysis of Draft Information LawDate:29/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 has prepared a Note on the draft Sierra Leonean Right to Access Information Bill 2008, prepared through a collaborative effort of local NGOs and the authorities...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
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Singapore: ‘Drop Charges Against Author Who Raised Rights Concerns’Date:09/11/2010 The Singapore government should exonerate a British author who was convicted for contempt of court for his criticism of Singapore's justice system, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010Last Modified:
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Title Too LongDate:13/05/2009 The AWARE saga has demonstrated how important it is to stand up for our ideals...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
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Singapore: Hocus Pocus Hides Rights AbusesDate:03/02/2011 (New York) - Singapore's stated goal of updating its political system in time for the 2011 elections should include revamping laws, policies, and practices that fail to comply with international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2011...
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Thursday, 3 February 2011Last Modified:
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SINGAPORE: WSJ editor faces contemptDate:20/03/2009 THE Government is taking a senior editor of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to court, accusing her of being in contempt of court in three articles published last year...
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SINGAPORE:Southeast Asian consensus on freedom of speechDate:28/01/2009 Debates over freedom of expression have been at the centre of Indonesias decade-old democratic journey...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Last Modified:
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Singapore Ratchets Down Freedom Before Hosting APECDate:27/10/2009 Increasing pressure is being put on Falun Gong practitioners to stay away from certain public areas during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, set to be held in Singapore next month...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009Last Modified:
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Singapore releases UK author in defamation caseDate:20/07/2010 SINGAPORE ; Singapore released on bail Tuesday a British author arrested two days earlier as part of a criminal defamation investigation related to his book on the city-state's death penalty policy...
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010Last Modified:
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Slovak Constitutional Court Upholds Freedom of ExpressionDate:21/04/2010 The International Press Institute welcomes a Slovakian Constitutional Court ruling that the judiciary violated the rights of a Slovakian weekly magazine and failed to take into account the principle of freedom of expression when it directed the magazine to pay SKK 250, 000 (EUR 8, 300) to a judge for defamation of his character...
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010Last Modified:
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Slovenia: Courts urged to stop persecuting Ljubljana dailyDate:11/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is appalled by Ljubljana judge Katarina Novsak Kaplandu’s decision on appeal on 4 September to uphold the month-old injunction forbidding the daily Dnevnik to print any negative comment about Italian businessman Pierpaolo Cerani or his business activities...
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Friday, 11 September 2009Last Modified:
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SOMALIA: Closure of Radio GalkaioDate:17/11/2008 Somali Coalition For Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) today condemned the closure of radio Galkaio and the detention of the radio manager Hassan Mohamed Jama...
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Monday, 17 November 2008Last Modified:
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Somalia: Harassment of journalists continues in Somaliland with two arrested and one beatenDate:21/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of two journalists employed by Radio Horyaal, an independent station based in Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland...
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Friday, 21 August 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: IFJ Concerned by Degradation of Freedom of Expression in SomalilandDate:24/09/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed its concern over the continuous degradation of freedom of expression in Somaliland, following the publication of a new report by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), an IFJ affiliate, on the state of freedom of expression and cases of violations of media freedom in Somaliland...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Independent news agency launched in Djibouti aims to be reliable source of news about SomaliaDate:29/04/2009 The Somali Independent News Agency (SOMINA) was unveiled today in Djibouti by Omar Faruk Osman Nur, the secretary-general of the National Union of Somali journalists, and Robert Ménard, the head of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Islamist militia closes radio station, arrests three journalistsDate:28/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the raid which members of the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab carried out yesterday on Radio Jubba in Baidoa (250 km northwest of Mogadishu), closing the station and arresting three of its journalists...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009Last Modified:
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SOMALIA: Journalist Arrested In Galkaio, Puntland Date:30/12/2008 Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) today condemned the detention of journalist Abdullahi Hirsi Adde who was arrested in Galkaio, Puntland on 28 December by the Police force of district Galkaio...
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008Last Modified:
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Somalia: Journalist freed after 20 days of imprisonment, journalists grieve for death of another journalistDate:16/04/2009 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today welcomes with joy the release of Journalist Jama Ayanle Feyte from Bossasso jail after Puntland President pardoned...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Journalist killed in Mogadishu, NUSOJ demands immediate end of hostilitiesDate:07/07/2009 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) renewed its call for the immediate end of hostilities in Mogadishu as the 6th journalist was shot dead on 4 July 2009 in the capital city...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Kidnapped journalists in Somalia reportedly illDate:27/05/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists is very concerned about the well-being of two captive journalists, a Canadian and an Australian, who urged their respective governments to work harder for their release in a phone call with a reporter on Sunday...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Media Director KidnappedDate:04/06/2009 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is today condemning the kidnapping of UNIVERSAL TV Director Ibrahim Mohamed Ali...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Radio reporter shot by militia dies of injuries, fourth journalist to be killed this yearDate:27/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders expressed shock and deep sadness at the news of the death today of journalist Nur Muse Hussein of Radio Voice of Holy Quran as a result of a bullet wound he received on 20 April...
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SOMALIA: SOCCFEX Condemns murder of Journalist in MogadishuDate:05/02/2009 Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) condemned the killing of journalist Said Tahliil Ahmed who has been murdered today in Bakare Market by unknown gunmen in Mogadishu, Somalia...
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Thursday, 5 February 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Somaliland government increases attacks on pressDate:27/07/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalist condemns the government's growing crackdown on the independent press in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland as September presidential elections near...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Two broadcast journalists seriously beatenDate:12/06/2009 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today expresses its alarm over aggressive attacks against two broadcast journalists in southwestern Somalia...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia: Freelance journalist gets two years in prison in Puntland on defamation chargeDate:01/04/2009 A court in Bosaso, the main port city of the semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland, yesterday sentenced freelance journalist Jama Ayanle Feyte to two years in prison, Reporters Without Borders has learned from its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ)...
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Somalia / Editor of Somaliland weekly sentenced to five months in prisonDate:20/03/2009 A court in Hargeisa, the capital of the northern breakaway territory of Somaliland, sentenced Mohamed Abdi Guled, the editor of the Hargeisa-based weekly Yool, to five months in prison on 17 March on charges of operating an unregistered newspaper and publishing fabricated information...
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Friday, 20 March 2009Last Modified:
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Somalia / New Violence Highlights Need for Independent Inquiry / Date:06/02/2009 MOGADISHU, Somalia, February 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ - A new incident involving African Union troops in Mogadishu that left at least 13 people dead underscores the urgent need for an independent inquiry into laws-of-war violations by all forces in Somalia, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
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SOUTH KOREA: Court acquits blogger known as “Minerva”Date:21/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders welcomes blogger Park Dae-sung's acquittal today by the Seoul central district court on charges of affecting foreign exchange markets and undermining the nation's credibility by posting false information online...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
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SOUTH KOREA: Government intereference at TV stations leads to firings, suspensions of employeesDate:16/10/2008 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today strongly condemned the latest efforts by the Korean government to control YTN, a 24-hour television channel, in a move that has led to the firing of journalist union activists protesting the changes...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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South Korea: Management and union reach deal at troubled TV news stationDate:02/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very relieved to learn that an agreement has been reached that should end a year-long dispute between the management and journalists' union at state-owned TV news station YTN...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
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SOUTH KOREA: 'Minerva' Scandal Exposes a Deeper MalaiseDate:13/01/2009 The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for an unemployed 30-year-old man named Park Dae-sung who is believed to be the online pundit Minerva and has been an outspoken critic of the governments handling of the economy...
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009Last Modified:
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SOUTH KOREA: 'Minerva' Scandal Exposes a Deeper MalaiseDate:13/01/2009 The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for an unemployed 30-year-old man named Park Dae-sung who is believed to be the online pundit Minerva and has been an outspoken critic of the governments handling of the economy...
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009Last Modified:
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SOUTH KOREA: New laws proposed to restrict freedom of assembly and opinionDate:11/11/2008 Two pieces of legislation have recently been submitted to South Koreas national assembly, their purpose clearly to restrict peoples rights to freedom of assembly and opinion...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
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South Korea: Opposition takes media law confrontation to streets ahead of court ruling Date:28/07/2009 The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) was poised to take to the streets Tuesday to protest railroaded media law revisions, as their campaign to ify the legislation intensified with a legal battle...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009Last Modified:
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South Korea: Secretary General of World Uighur Congress denied entry to South KoreaDate:21/09/2009 The South Korean authorities should immediately release Dolkun Isa, Secretary General of the World Uighur Congress, unless he is to be charged with an internationally recognized criminal offence, Amnesty International said on Thursday...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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South Korea: South Korea releases Secretary General of the World Uighur CongressDate:21/09/2009 'Amnesty International on Friday welcomed the release of the Secretary General of the World Uighur Congress, following his detention at Incheon International airport in Seoul, South Korea but said the authorities should not have denied him entry to the country...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
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Seoul Media Bills Pass After Brawl Date:23/07/2009 The National Assembly passed three bills to modernize South Korea's media industry, including allowing companies to own both broadcast and print properties...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009Last Modified:
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Spain media giant Prisa announces TV merger planDate:08/06/2009 Shares in Spanish media giant Prisa, owner of leading daily El Pais, closed sharply higher on Friday after it announced plans to merge its television operations with rival Imagina within a month...
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Monday, 8 June 2009Last Modified:
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Spanish judge rules booing the King is freedom of expressionDate:23/07/2009 A National Court has thrown out a suit over incidents at the final of the King’s Cup this May Booing and hissing at the monarch or the national anthem counts as freedom of expression, according to Judge Santiago Pedraz, who has thrown out a suit against incidents at the final of the King’s Cup this May...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009Last Modified:
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Wounded Spanish journalist receives first Freedom of Speech Prize for Journalistic Values Date:11/11/2010 SAN FERNANDO: Spanish photographer Emilio Morenatti, who lost a foot in a roadside bomb explosion while working in Afghanistan last year, received on Tuesday the first Freedom of Speech Prize for Journalistic Values...
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Thursday, 11 November 2010Last Modified:
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Sudan: ARTICLE 19 Pledges Solidarity with Journalist Over “Trouser Trial”Date:06/08/2009 ARTICLE 19 castigates the Government of the Republic of Sudan for its continued suppression of fundamental human rights, as demonstrated most recently by the arrest and prosecution of Lubna Ahmed Hussein for “indecent dressing”...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
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Sudan: ARTICLE 19 Submits Written Statement to 11th Session of UN Human Rights CouncilDate:28/05/2009 ARTICLE 19, supported by the Khartoum Center for Human Rights and Environmental Development (KCHRED), has submitted a written statement expressing serious concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Sudan to the 11th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, taking place from 2 to 19 June 2009...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
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Sudan: ARTICLE 19 Voices Serious Concerns on the Draft Press LawDate:15/04/2009 ARTICLE 19 today releases its Note on the Draft Law of Sudan on Press and Printed Press Materials...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009Last Modified:
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SUDAN: Editor detaine for three days, charged with defamationDate:16/10/2008 The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about a criminal lawsuit that has been filed against the editor of The Citizen newspaper in Southern Sudan and calls on authorities to drop the case immediately...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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Sudan: End Censorship and RepressionDate:19/02/2009 The Sudanese government is censoring the media and cracking down on human rights activists and journalists who speak out on human rights and justice, Human Rights Watch said in a report today...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009Last Modified:
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Sudan: Government critics brutally suppressed by security serviceDate:19/07/2010 Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture, and mental and physical intimidation against government opponents and critics, according to a new Amnesty International report published today (19 July)...
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SUDAN: Journalists attend mass protest in defence of freedom of expression and the pressDate:14/11/2008 ARTICLE 19 joins in solidarity with Sudanese civil society organisations and media houses demonstrating against the censorship and intimidation of Sudanese media in Khartoum...
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Friday, 14 November 2008Last Modified:
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SUDAN: Juba Declaration Of Concern By The Sudan National RoundtableDate:09/12/2008 The National Roundtable meeting on democratic media legislation in Sudan held under the auspices of the Sudan Consortium 'promoting freedom of expression and civil society involvement in the development of democratic media legislation in Sudan', which met in Juba, South Sudan on 1st to 2nd December, 2008, have expressed their alarm at the deteriorating state of freedom of expression and media freedom in Sudan in a declaration of concern...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
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Sudan: Reporter on trial for dressing in a sensational mannerDate:16/07/2009 ANHRI expresses deep concern over the trial of opposition reporter Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussein, who has been accused of dressing in a sensational manner...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
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Sudan: Revise Repressive Press Law / End to Censorship Necessary for Free and Fair Elections in 2010Date:24/04/2009 Sudan's parliament should make major changes to a draft press law to ensure that it protects freedom of speech as guaranteed under the Sudanese constitution and international law, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
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Sudan: Two dailies hit by prior censorshipDate:17/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the pre-publication censorship of the privately-owned dailies Al-Midan and Ajras Alhurya...
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Friday, 17 April 2009Last Modified:
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Title Too LongDate:01/12/2008 ARTICLE 19 calls on embassies, governments and international partners to help mitigate a rapidly deteriorating work environment for the press and human rights defenders in Khartoum, Sudan...
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Monday, 1 December 2008Last Modified:
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Sudan should lift Darfur security constraints - UNDate:12/02/2010 Sudan should amend security legislation to protect freedom of speech and assembly in its conflict-torn Darfur region ahead of a nationwide election in April, a senior U...
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Friday, 12 February 2010Last Modified:
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Sudan’s constitution requires cooperation with relief agencies, SHRODate:09/03/2009 Cairo notes with deep concerns the systematic harassment of civil society groups by the Presidency and the National Security and Intelligence Service, in addition to the Publications and Press Council which exercises harsh censorial powers over journalists and the Press...
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Sudanese journalists angry at new media law Date:29/04/2009 Sudanese journalists are up in arms over a move to send controversial media laws to Parliament before consultations between different players are over, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism...
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Sudanese journalists say “a free press or no press”Date:27/05/2009 Fury has swept across the media in Sudan as a new media law threatens to further worsen conditions and heighten prerequisites for practicing journalism in the country...
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Title Too LongDate:29/09/2009 Amnesty International today urged the government of Swaziland to institute a judicially-led public inquiry into the violent attack, on 21 September, by Correctional Services security officers on journalists and political activists at Matsapha Central Correctional Institute...
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SWAZILAND: Counter-terrorism is not a pretext for repressionDate:24/11/2008 ARTICLE 19 is seriously concerned about the constricting environment the government of Swaziland is imposing on Freedom of Expression...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
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SWAZILAND: Counter-terrorism is not a pretext for repressionDate:24/11/2008 ARTICLE 19 is seriously concerned about the constricting environment the government of Swaziland is imposing on Freedom of Expression...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
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Swaziland: Five radio stations apply for licensesDate:01/04/2009 Five radio stations have filed applications for licenses with the radio broadcast regulator, the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC), following a recent call by the regulator for applications for the licenses approved by government last year...
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Wednesday, 1 April 2009Last Modified:
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Swaziland: Government renews intentions to pilot a new media billDate:02/06/2009 On 28 May 2009, the Swazi government renewed its intentions to pilot a Media Commission Bill that seeks to regulate the media by statute...
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009Last Modified:
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Swaziland: Journalists barred from covering workshop for legislatorsDate:09/07/2009 Journalists covering an HIV/AIDS workshop for Swazi parliamentarians were on 30 June 2009 kicked out of the workshop after MPs and senators expressed displeasure at their presence...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
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SWAZILAND: No freedom of expression at SBISDate:14/01/2009 THE right to freedom of expression, as enshrined in the national constitution, is greatly compromised at the Swaziland Broadcasting Information Services (SBIS), Secretary General of the Swaziland Association of Teachers (SNAT), Muzi Mhlanga has said...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Swaziland: Senators threaten mediaDate:22/04/2009 Senators in the Swaziland Parliament have threatened to charge the local media with contempt of Parliament following stories about an altercation between the Senate President and a Senator Senate President, Gelane Zwane and Senator Ndileka Dlamini engaged in a verbal showdown on 30 March 2009 and almost came to blows...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009Last Modified:
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Swazi lawyer challenges ActDate:07/07/2009 A leading Swaziland lawyer launched a court bid on Monday to have charges of sedition and subversive activities against him declared unlawful, saying they are inconsistent with the constitution...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
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Swaziland prime minister threatens to censor columnistsDate:25/10/2010 The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a recent statement from Swaziland's Prime Minister, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, announcing his intention to create a law requiring newspaper columnists to seek permission before they write critically about the government...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
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Sweden: Article about organ harvesting sparks Israel-Sweden tiffDate:24/08/2009 Reporting from Jerusalem - Israel, already on the defensive over European criticism of its policies, has picked a diplomatic fight with Sweden over an unsubstantiated newspaper expose suggesting that Israeli soldiers harvested the organs of Palestinians who died in army custody...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
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Sweden defends press freedom amid Israeli furorDate:24/08/2009 Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has rejected Israeli calls for official condemnation of a Swedish newspaper article about organ harvesting, saying freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democracy...
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Monday, 24 August 2009Last Modified:
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Swedish File-Sharers Convicted Date:20/04/2009 The music and movie industries celebrated a high-profile victory in their campaign to curb online piracy on Friday when a Swedish court convicted and imposed prison sentences to four men linked to the notorious Internet file-sharing service The Pirate Bay...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
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Swiss Support Kosovo Media FreedomDate:10/06/2009 Swiss Ambassador to Kosovo Lukas Beglinger has sent a letter of support to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, condemning the recent spate of attacks against Kosovo journalist Jeta Xharra...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
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Swiss voters back ban on minarets Date:29/11/2009 Swiss voters have supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets, official results show...
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Sunday, 29 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Switzerland Asked to Help Asylum Seeker JournalistDate:15/02/2010 A group of Georgian journalists has requested the Swiss authorities “to provide all possible assistance” to an investigative reporter, Vakhtang Komakhidze, who last week asked for asylum in Switzerland, citing threats against him and his family...
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Monday, 15 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Could Syria Be Next?: Protests By Arab Internet BloggersDate:10/03/2011 GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT the Arab world are consistently censoring Internet platforms such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube...
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Thursday, 10 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DAMASCUS, Syria: Al Jazeera Breaks the Israeli Media BlockadeDate:07/01/2009 Throughout the 11 days of Israels pummeling of Gaza, live coverage of the war hasnt made it into most American living rooms...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Syria: Kurdish activist at risk of torture Date:03/07/2009 Political activist Jakarkhon Sheikho ‘Ali, a member of Syria’s Kurdish minority, is being held incommunicado at the Military Security Branch in the city of Aleppo, north-east of the capital Damascus...
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Friday, 3 July 2009Last Modified:
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Syria: Press freedom situation continues to be very bad, says RSFDate:15/07/2009 The press freedom situation in Syria continues to be very bad, Reporters Without Borders said on 10 July 2009 as French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner prepared to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on the weekend of 11-12 July in Syria...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009Last Modified:
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Syria: Proposed press law reform poses new threat to InternetDate:20/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders’ concerns about online free expression in Syria have increased as a result of an informal meeting on 10 May of the committee tasked with drafting a new press law...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Syria: Pro-reform writer Habib Saleh imprisoned againDate:18/03/2009 Amnesty International condemns the sentencing yesterday of Habib Saleh, aged 61, to three years in prison for having criticized the Syrian government...
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Syria: Senior officials organise systematic suppression of dissenting voicesDate:15/09/2009 What is happening to press freedom in Syria? It is hard to know because many journalists refuse to speak either on the record or anonymously for fear of being identified by the intelligence services...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Syria unrest: 'Protesters killed' at Omari mosqueDate:23/03/2011 At least five people have died after security forces fired on protesters outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, human rights activists say...
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Taiwan: Freedom of the press threatened from withinDate:09/04/2009 Although 20 years have passed, people should still remember the institutions that restricted press freedom back in the Martial Law era: The Taiwan Garrison Command, the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) Cultural Affairs Department, the Government Information Office and the entire authoritarian regime that those institutions represented...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TAPEI: Federation concerned about police response to protestsDate:24/11/2008 The International Federation for Human Rights has become the latest international group to express concern regarding the response of police to protests against Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yun-lin earlier this month...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thai royal laws hurting freedom of speech: AmnestyDate:13/01/2010 Thailand must halt a backward slide on freedom of expression after a sharp rise in cases of people accused of insulting the revered monarchy, a leading rights group said Wednesday...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010Last Modified:
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Tajik Media Activists Press for Libel Law ChangeDate:07/11/2008 Media rights activists in Tajikistan have launched a campaign to remove libel from the criminal law statutes, so that future court cases would only be conducted through the civil courts...
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Friday, 7 November 2008Last Modified:
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Tanzania: Independent newspaper takes government to talk over controversial media lawDate:13/07/2009 After suffering a government ban for three months for allegedly tarnishing the name of the head of state in October 2008, and personal attacks that left its editor, Saed Kubenea, almost blind in January 2008, the Mwanahalisi newspaper, a small but vibrant publication and leading crusader against corruption in Tanzanian society has now challenged the constitutionality of the Newspapers Act...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
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TANZANIA: Let investigative journalism flourish, Govt toldDate:07/01/2009 Though Tanzania has been hailed as a country which observes freedom of expression, it has been advised to amend some of its laws in order to remove potential obstacles to freedom of expression...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2009Last Modified:
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TANZANIA: MCT monitoring exercise a laudable initiativeDate:16/02/2009 The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) has launched a print media monitoring exercise to assess how newspapers are covering specific issues...
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Monday, 16 February 2009Last Modified:
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TANZANIA: Newspaper suspended for 'seditious' articleDate:16/10/2008 The Tanzanian government has suspended Mwanahalisi newspaper for its alleged practice of running stories with the intention of inciting public hatred against the president and contributing to misunderstanding within the presidents family...
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TANZANIA: Newspaper suspended for 'seditious' articleDate:16/10/2008 The Tanzanian government has suspended Mwanahalisi newspaper for its alleged practice of running stories with the intention of inciting public hatred against the president and contributing to misunderstanding within the presidents family...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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TANZANIA: Newspaper suspended for 'seditious' articleDate:16/10/2008 The Tanzanian government has suspended Mwanahalisi newspaper for its alleged practice of running stories with the intention of inciting public hatred against the president and contributing to misunderstanding within the presidents family...
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TANZANIA: Push for reform gathers momentum as coalition submits services billDate:16/10/2008 On 8 October 2008, Tanzanias Freedom of Information Bill Coalition Campaign submitted a draft Media Services Bill to the Minister of Information and Culture, Hon...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
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Thailand: Authorities Silence ‘Red Shirt’ Community Radios Date:28/04/2011 'The Thai government has shut down community radio stations associated with the anti-government Red Shirt movement...
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Thursday, 28 April 2011Last Modified:
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Thailand: Blogger Gets 10 Years for Insulting MonarchyDate:06/04/2009 Suwicha Thakhor's nightmare in a Thai jail is set to continue after a court delivered a harsh verdict this week that contained an unequivocal message ? the Internet in this country is being policed with the aim of limiting free expression...
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Monday, 6 April 2009Last Modified:
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Thailand: Censorship lifted on some websitesDate:28/04/2009 The information and communication ministry asked Internet Service Providers on 24 April to lift the censorship on 72 news websites operated by the government's Red Shirt opponents...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009Last Modified:
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Thailand: criminalising dissentDate:26/01/2009 The crackdown on lèse majesté is intensifying as politics becomes polarised around the monarchy, says Sinfah Tunsarawuth...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
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Thailand: Father of three gets 10-year prison term for emailing material offensive to Thai royaltyDate:08/04/2009 In a development described by media observers as having a chilling effect on the online community in Thailand, the Criminal Court sentenced a 34-year-old engineer, Suwicha Takor, to 10 years imprisonment for violating the Constitution, the Criminal Code and the Computer Related Crime Law...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2009Last Modified:
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THAILAND: Local newspaper editor gunned down, fourth death this yearDate:07/10/2008 Editor-in-chief of ‘Den Siam’, Wallop Bounsampop, was murdered in Chonburi province on 5 October 2008 in what was the fourth murder of a journalist in Thailand since the start of the year...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008Last Modified:
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THAILAND: Our country's media freedom: myth and realityDate:11/03/2009 Last Friday Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was speaking eloquently in front of three dozen Asian editors and publishers about his efforts to bring back Thailands reputation as a land of free media...
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THAILAND: PM committed to media freedomDate:09/03/2009 Determined to reclaim Thailands position as a country that values press freedom the most in Asia, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has vowed to push for laws that provide the media the needed protection to perform its functions of serving the public...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
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Thailand: Radio host forced to resign for interviewing exiled former premierDate:16/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders is today publishing Thai radio show host Jom Petpradab’s account of the harassment to which he was subjected after interviewing former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who lives in exile in Dubai...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009Last Modified:
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Thailand: Report on Defamation LawDate:31/07/2009 ARTICLE 19 and the National Press Council of Thailand (NPCT) have jointly launched a Report, the Impact of Defamation Law on Freedom of Expression in Thailand...
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Friday, 31 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thailand: Reverse backward slide in freedom of expressionDate:14/01/2010 Thailand should reverse its recent backward slide in respect for freedom of expression, as illustrated by the sharp increase over the past ten months in cases under the lese majeste law...
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Thursday, 14 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
THAILAND: Samak Sundaravej jailed for two years.Date:26/09/2008 The Court of Appeals in Thailand has upheld the defamation jail terms for former prime minister Samak Sundaravaj, stating that he and the former senator showed no remorse...
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Friday, 26 September 2008Last Modified:
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Thailand: Thai court jails Thaksin supporter for royal insultDate:28/08/2009 A Thai court on Friday sentenced a political campaigner to 18 years in prison for insulting the monarchy, the latest in a slew of lese-majeste cases critics say are stifling dissent and freedom of speech...
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Friday, 28 August 2009Last Modified:
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Thai arrest over 'royal insult'Date:07/11/2008 One of Thailands best-known social activists has been arrested on charges of insulting the monarchy...
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Friday, 7 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thai court dismisses Tesco libel case against former MPDate:19/06/2009 Thai court has dismissed a law suit filed by Tesco against a former MP, Jit Siratranont, for making comments that the supermarket giant's expansion was at the expense of small retailers...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
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Thai government moves to suppress mediaDate:24/04/2009 Following the anti-government protests, the Thai government has begun to crack down on the opposition media...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thai government wants prior restraint on community radio programs and satellite, cable TV stationsDate:15/05/2009 The Thai government announced on 14 May 2009 its plan to regulate the program content of radio stations and satellite TV stations in the country, media reports said...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
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Thai journalist settles Tesco libel caseDate:28/11/2008 A Thai business columnist sued for libel damages of £1...
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Friday, 28 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thai media caught yet again in political crossfireDate:15/04/2009 Thai media found themselves caught in the middle of the political turmoil that has been gripping the country since last week, media reports said...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thai protesters attack three broadcast journalists covering rallyDate:09/04/2009 Three Thai broadcast journalists were attacked in three separate incidents by opposition demonstrators dubbed as the Red Shirts, during a massive protest rally in Bangkok meant as a final bid to pressure the government of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the King's close aides to resign...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
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Thai webmaster on trial in free speech test caseDate:04/02/2011 The head of a popular Thai political website went on trial today, charged with violating the country's tough internet laws in a case seen as a bellwether for freedom of expression in the politically troubled nation...
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Friday, 4 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thai webmaster on trial in free speech test caseDate:07/02/2011 Prachatai website manager faces up to 20 years' jail for failing to remove offending comments posted by readers...
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Monday, 7 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thailand Blocks 2, 300 Web Sites It Says Insult King Bhumibol Date:06/01/2009 Thailand has blocked 2, 300 Web sites it says insult King Bhumibol Adulyadej and is establishing a war room for future crackdowns, actions critics say threaten free speech...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thailand blocks news conference on Vietnam's human rights record, drawing criticismDate:13/09/2010 BANGKOK ; The Thai government blocked a planned news conference Monday on Vietnamese human rights because it feared the disclosures might insult the neighbouring country...
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Monday, 13 September 2010Last Modified:
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Thailand blocks news conference on Vietnam's human rights record, drawing criticismDate:14/09/2010 BANGKOK ; The Thai government blocked a planned news conference Monday on Vietnamese human rights because it feared the disclosures might insult the neighbouring country...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010Last Modified:
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Thailand's draconian lese-majesty law is a blunt instrument that Thais can too easily turn on foreigners – and each otherDate:23/01/2009 Australian writer Harry Nicolaides has been sentenced to three years in a Thai prison for writing a novel that practically nobody has read...
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Friday, 23 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Writer jailed for Thai 'insult'Date:19/01/2009 Australian writer Harry Nicolaides has been sentenced to three years in jail for insulting the monarchy...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Macedonia: Freedom of expression threatened. Date:16/11/2010 Reporters have been made to appear on lists of undesirable persons while the prime minister openly recommends distrust of certain media...
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EAST TIMOR: Journalists Hold Out For Better Media LawsDate:15/05/2009 Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Asia Foundation: Media in Timor-Leste: Freedom Under Challenges Date:12/01/2010 Jose Belo, founder and editor of Timor-Leste’s local weekly newspaper Tempo Semanal, is familiar with uncertain terms...
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Timor Leste: Analysis of Media LawsDate:20/03/2009 ARTICLE 19 has prepared a Memorandum assessing the compatibility of a set of five draft laws on media regulation and the right to information - prepared on behalf of the UNDP for consideration by the authorities in Timor Leste - with international standards on freedom of expression...
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Friday, 20 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Timor Lests government vows to decriminalize defamationDate:25/09/2008 The government of Timor Leste announced on September 24 its decision to decriminalize the countrys Defamation Law, a move that was welcomed by the Timor Lorosae Journalists Association (TLJA)...
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Thursday, 25 September 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Togo: Broadcast media forbidden to let public express views on the airDate:20/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns an order issued by the High Council for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC) on 17 April banning all radio and TV programmes in which the public is allowed to express its views...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
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Togo: Broadcast media forbidden to let public express views on the airDate:21/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns an order issued by the High Council for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC) on 17 April banning all radio and TV programmes in which the public is allowed to express its views...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Trinidad and Tobago: Is it over yet?Date:27/04/2009 April 21 marked the 29th anniversary of the declaration of a state of emergency during the Black Power uprising in 1970...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Court dismiss cooking oil lawsuits against opposition dailyDate:13/05/2009 A Tunis court has dismissed the lawsuits that five Tunisian companies brought against the opposition daily Al Maoukif over an April 2008 article about an Algerian import ban on their cooking oil because it was said to be tainted...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia: Police in Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaperDate:22/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Gafsa (400 km southwest of Tunis) have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days...
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Academic sentenced to eight months in prison for posting message on FacebookDate:13/07/2009 On 4 July 2009, Tunis's Court of First Instance sentenced academic and rights defender Dr...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Attacks on Freedom of ExpressionDate:02/02/2009 The Tunisian government is confirming again its strong support for freedom of speech...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Government wages smear campaign against Al JazeeraDate:10/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns a smear campaign against Al Jazeera in which the Tunisian government is using both state-run and pro-government media to accuse the Qatar-based satellite TV station of acting as the mouthpiece President Ben Ali’s opponents...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia: In Tunisia, court orders transfer of syndicate boardDate:09/09/2009 'The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a Tunisian court’s decision to recognize a pro-government board of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (NSTJ)...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: In Tunisia, government allies oust syndicate boardDate:18/08/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the ousting of the board of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (NSTJ) on Saturday...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
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TUNISIA: Kalima website targeted, police attack OLPEC secretary generalDate:16/10/2008 The online magazine Kalima (http://www...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia: Rights Activist Arrested, Threatened Date:21/09/2009 'New York) - The Tunisian government should end the harassment of the human rights activist and journalist Abdallah Zouari immediately, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia excels in the high art of lowdown slanderDate:14/01/2009 Theres an old proverb that a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia jails dissident reporter Taoufik Ben Brik Date:26/11/2009 A prominent critic of Tunisian leader President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been jailed for six months after a trial criticised by rights groups...
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Thursday, 26 November 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisia tries to oust head of journalist syndicate Date:14/05/2009 Tunisian government efforts to force out the president of a critical journalists union is part of a campaign to eliminate independent media in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 14 May 2009Last Modified:
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Tunisian leader defends law accused of limiting free speechDate:08/11/2010 Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali defended Sunday a controversial law that critics say limits press freedom as he announced increased subsidies to opposition parties and their newspapers...
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Monday, 8 November 2010Last Modified:
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Turkmenistan: Gas contracts but no press freedomDate:17/09/2009 'Ogulsapar Muradova, the Turkmenistan correspondent of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, died three years ago, on 12 September 2006, after being severely beaten by guards in Ovodan Depe high security prison, to the north of the capital Ashgabat...
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Thursday, 17 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Uganda: Arrest of opposition leaders an outrageous affront to freedom of expressionDate:12/04/2011 The opposition politicians, activists and their supporters were arrested during demonstrations calling for people to walk to work in protest at fuel price rises...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Uganda: ARTICLE 19 Lauds Whistleblowers BillDate:08/03/2010 ARTICLE 19 welcomes the recent bold move by the Uganda Parliament to pass the Whistleblowers Bill, a critical milestone in the country’s efforts to stem corruption and embrace transparency and accountability...
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Monday, 8 March 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Uganda: Constitutional Court blows chance to expand free speechDate:06/07/2009 A month ago today, the Constitutional Court dismissed a petition seeking to abolish the law of criminal defamation/libel...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Uganda: Court upholds Mwondha’s libel caseDate:08/06/2009 THE Constitutional Court has directed Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court to continue with criminal proceedings against The Daily Monitor journalists, who are accused of writing defamatory information against the Inspector General of Government, Faith Mwondha...
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Monday, 8 June 2009Last Modified:
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Uganda: Four from Uganda's Monitor face criminal chargesDate:26/08/2009 Four journalists from Uganda's largest independent newspaper are facing criminal prosecutions, joining four others already charged since 2007, according to local journalists and news reports...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009Last Modified:
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Uganda: Four radio stations closed and a talk-show host detained for inciting riotsDate:14/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the government’s closure of four radio stations and its ban on live debate programmes in response to the protests that have shaken Kampala in recent days...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
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Uganda: Joint Mission Calls to Safeguard Free Speech Ahead of 2011 ElectionsDate:30/09/2010 Following a joint mission to Uganda, ARTICLE 19 and four other international freedom of expression organisations are calling on the government of Uganda to respect its international and constitutional obligations to safeguard freedom of expression...
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Thursday, 30 September 2010Last Modified:
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Uganda: Ugandan radio stations shut; debate programs bannedDate:14/09/2009 The government-run Uganda Broadcasting Council effectively shut down four radio stations today and Thursday, and ordered all radio stations to halt political debate programming in the wake of violent clashes in the capital, Kampala...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
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HRNJ-Uganda Reports On Shrinking Space for Free Expression And Media Freedom Ahead of 2011 General ElectionsDate:08/10/2010 Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) is concerned about the declining safety and security environment for journalists in Uganda, and the growing overall threat to freedom of expression in the country...
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Friday, 8 October 2010Last Modified:
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Uganda’s commitment to democracy is encouragingDate:03/09/2010 In any country, the foundations for free and fair elections are laid well before election day by establishing freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, an independent media, and a transparent voter registry...
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Friday, 3 September 2010Last Modified:
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Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato found murderedDate:27/01/2011 One of Uganda's most prominent gay rights activists has been murdered in his home weeks after winning a court victory over a tabloid that called for homosexuals to be killed...
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Thursday, 27 January 2011Last Modified:
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Ukraine: A Draft Law Fails to Fully Safeguard the Independence of National BroadcastersDate:23/04/2009 ARTICLE 19 today releases a legal analysis of the proposed changes to the Ukrainian law 'On Television and Radio Broadcasting' (Broadcasting Law)...
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Thursday, 23 April 2009Last Modified:
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Ukraine: ARTICLE 19 Calls on the Ukrainian Parliament to Adopt Progressive Law on Access to InformationDate:07/04/2009 ARTICLE 19 today releases its analyses of the draft Law of Ukraine on Access to Public Information...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009Last Modified:
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Ukraine: Journalist harassed by police officer and court security guardDate:13/07/2009 Officials at the Kyiv-Svyatoshin district court have responded to a complaint filed at the office of Ukraine's prosecutor general by freelance journalist and lawyer Valentyna Prybylska regarding a 5 May 2009 incident in which Prybylska was harassed by a police officer and a court security guard for taking a picture of a sign posted on a courtroom door...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
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Ukraine: News agency website targeted by hacker attacksDate:07/07/2009 The Malakava news agency website has systematically been the target of hackers, who edit texts or break their website, according to Olesya Tkachyk, editor-in-chief of Malakava, which operates in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Two Ukrainian TV Stations Have Licences Revoked, Could Face Criminal ChargesDate:30/08/2010 The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed grave concern for the state of media freedom in Ukraine after a court ruling forced one TV station off the air and limited the licences of another...
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Monday, 30 August 2010Last Modified:
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Ukrainian journalists threaten strike - paperDate:15/08/2010 In case Ukraine authorities continue to neglect recommendations of international journalistic organizations, Ukrainian press freedom group Stop the Censorship will call on journalists across the country to take part in a mass strike, the Ukrainskaya Pravda paper reported on Sunday...
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Washington insists on Ukrainian regime’s guarantees for freedom of speechDate:04/07/2010 Speaking in a live TV talk show July 3 night, US State Secretary Hilary Clinton requested the Ukrainian regime to respect the freedom of the press...
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Dubai needs no more support measures: ministerDate:03/03/2009 Government measures taken so far to support Dubai through a sharp economic downturn should be sufficient to stabilize its economy for at least nine months, the United Arab Emirates economy minister said on Monday, as press said that a UAE draft media law could give authorities wider powers to regulate increasingly gloomy economic reporting...
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UAE: Civil society leaders urge President to reconsider media lawDate:06/02/2009 Civil society leaders appealed to President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to intervene to reconsider the new media draft law, which was passed by the Federal National Council on January 20...
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UAE: CPJ concerned about UAE draft media lawDate:11/03/2009 Your Highness, We are writing to express our concern about a draft of the United Arab Emirates media law, recently approved by the Federal National Council (FNC)...
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UAE: Draft Media Law Draws Flak for ‘Shortcomings’Date:26/01/2009 The draft media law passed by the Federal National Council (FNC) was criticised for its shortcomings by media professionals on Sunday, but a senior minister said it would encourage freedom of speech and protect journalists...
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UAE: Journalists have nothing to fear: Director General, National Media CouncilDate:09/02/2009 The criticism of a draft media law is unjustified as the new regulations promise to lift earlier restrictions and provide new freedoms to journalists in the UAE, the director general of the National Media Council said...
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UAE: Journalists urge authorities to reconsider media law Date:27/01/2009 Unhappy about the new media law, the Journalists Association will present its grievances in an official letter to be sent to the concerned authorities, it was decided on Monday...
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UAE: Need to Explicitly Ban Imprisonment of Journalists StressedDate:26/01/2009 Rashid Al Oraimi, editor-in-chief of Abu Dhabi-based Arabic daily Al Ittihad, has criticised the draft of the amended media law...
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UAE: Two years in the makingDate:17/02/2009 The current UAE media law, dating to 1980, includes 26 articles that imply or specifically refer to the imprisonment of journalists...
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United Arab Emirates: Draft media law: Journalists 'will insist on changes'Date:29/04/2009 The UAE Journalists Association reiterated their objection to some articles of the new media draft law and insisted that they would not change their stance...
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United Arab Emirates: Federal Court of Appeal upholds sentence against editor and newspaperDate:09/07/2009 A ruling by the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal to suspend a local newspaper and fine its editor-in-chief further undermines press freedom in the United Arab Emirates, Human Rights Watch said today...
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: FNC Media Law Seeks to Scrap Jail Sentence for JournalistsDate:21/01/2009 The Federal National Council (FNC) on Tuesday approved the final draft of UAE's Media Law, which stipulates that journalists cannot be jailed in the course of their duties...
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United Arab Emirates: Newland gives up The National editorshipDate:11/06/2009 Martin Newland is giving up the editorship of The National, the daily paper based in Abu Dhabi that he launched in April last year...
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UAE: Dubai Press Club Chief Backs Draft Media LawDate:04/02/2009 The new media draft law should be viewed positively by journalists, said Dubai Press Club executive director Maryam bin Fahad, despite the law being slammed by the local media...
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U.A.E. Tightens Press Rules Amid Financial Downturn Date:22/01/2009 The government of the United Arab Emirates is tightening its media laws amid a slew of negative headlines about the countrys economy and corporate scandals in Dubai...
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UAE journos jump on draft media lawDate:09/03/2009 Authorities in the United Arab Emirates are drafting a new media law which has already earned the rebuke of local journos for what they fear is an attempt to curtail their freedom of expression...
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UAE Media Law Faces Human Rights Watch Scrutiny Date:14/04/2009 The United Arab Emirates faces scrutiny from a leading human rights organization over a proposed law that the group says will crimp press freedom in the Persian Gulf state...
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UAE President urged to reconsider media lawDate:09/02/2009 Civil society leaders in UAE have joined hands in opposing the proposed media law, terming it as unclear and harmful to civil liberties and free media in the country...
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America: U.S. officials detain Pakistani VOA journalistDate:17/08/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by U...
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America: U.S. officials detain Pakistani VOA journalistDate:17/08/2009 'New York, August 14, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by U...
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Battle for human rights increasingly fought on Internet: USDate:12/03/2010 The United States said Thursday that the battle for human rights is increasingly being fought on the Internet as China, Iran and other states try to block access by political activists and others...
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NEW YORK: Judges say no to teachers' campaign buttons, but yes to certain politikingDate:20/10/2008 A federal judge on Friday upheld New York City's policy prohibiting public school teachers from wearing political buttons in the classroom, but said the teachers could place campaign material into colleagues' mailboxes and hang posters on bulletin boards maintained by their union, as long as they were in areas off-limits to students...
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Watchdog: Press freedom deteriorated in AmericasDate:17/03/2009 Freedom of the press has deteriorated in the Americas, with Mexico among the most dangerous countries in the region to be a journalist, the Inter American Press Association said Monday...
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WikiLeaks: US opens grand jury hearingDate:12/05/2011 First session of process of deciding whether to prosecute website and founder Julian Assange for espionage...
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Gay marriage foes: NY law blocks free speech rightDate:21/10/2010 Lawyers for an anti-gay marriage group have appeared before judges in Rhode Island and New York seeking the right to run political ads without having to comply with certain donor and spending reporting requirements...
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Thursday, 21 October 2010Last Modified:
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Our challenge: Keeping the Internet openDate:21/04/2010 The Internet is one of the world's most important means of free expression...
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US: Arguments are heard in Athens' noise law caseDate:15/01/2009 Two University of Georgia students are asking the Georgia Supreme Court to conclude an Athens ordinance against loud noise violates their constitutional right to free speech, but the countys lawyer says their lawsuit is riddled with technical flaws...
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US: Attorney general-designate backs shield lawDate:16/01/2009 After eight years of conflict between the Bush administration and the news media over reporters confidential sources and government secrecy, attorney general-designate Eric Holder signaled Thursday that the Obama administration will take a different approach...
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US: Campus Free Speech Policy QuestionedDate:30/01/2009 The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit group aimed at defending civil liberties in U...
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US: Censorship of art exhibitDate:02/02/2009 When he was 21 years old, my father fled a war-ravaged Vietnam with his family by boat...
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US: Congress Considers Journalist Shield LawDate:03/03/2009 With new legislation introduced to protect reporters from naming sources in federal investigations, controversy ignites over who is covered and whether a shield is needed...
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US: Court says private school can expel lesbiansDate:29/01/2009 A private religious high school can expel students it believes are lesbians because the school isnt covered by California civil rights laws, a state appeals court has ruled...
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US: CPJ calls U.S. detention of Ibrahim Jassam unjustDate:03/09/2009 CPJ called on U...
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US: CPJ urges Obama to assert U.S. leadership on press freedomDate:13/01/2009 Dear President-elect Obama: I am writing as chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists to seek your leadership in reaffirming Americas role as a staunch defender of press freedom throughout the world...
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US: CSULB explores free expressionDate:03/03/2009 LONG BEACH -- Academics, artists and journalists will discuss global challenges to the freedom of expression and belief this week at the three-day Presidents Forum on International Human Rights at Cal State Long Beach...
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US: Dentist sues over negative Yelp reviewDate:14/01/2009 A pediatric dentist in Foster City has sued two people over negative comments about her practice that were posted on the review site Yelp, accusing them of libel...
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US: Fearful erosion of liberties Date:05/02/2009 Freedom of speech is a big deal here in America...
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US: Fliers, posters may create problemsDate:14/01/2009 When it comes to campus safety, fliers and signs posted on college campuses might pose an issue for some universities...
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US: Freedom of speech on college campuses should not be abridgedDate:13/01/2009 Freedom of speech is not exclusively the right to speak out...
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US: Investor Coalition Seeks Reports From Internet Service Date:29/01/2009 Members of a coalition of investors have filed shareholder resolutions with 10 publicly-held U...
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US: Journalist shield law argued againDate:03/03/2009 AUSTIN, Texas - Legislation to protect Texas journalists from revealing confidential sources in court went before the House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee on Monday as lawmakers took up the issue for the third straight session...
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US: Judge: Federal law may not protect Kilpatrick's messagesDate:03/02/2009 A Wayne County judge today said he doesnt think federal law shields text messages of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff Christine Beatty...
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US: Justice Scalia, Talmudic Scholars On Privacy, Free SpeechDate:30/01/2009 Gossip columns may plaster the internet and paper newsstands...
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US: Lawmakers unveil plan to prevent state police spyingDate:26/01/2009 This can never happen again...
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US: Media advocates to push shield law again Date:08/01/2009 Texas open government and news media advocates said Wednesday because of past groundwork and changes afoot in the state House of Representatives they are optimistic about passage of a reporters shield law, called the Free Flow of Information Act...
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US: Media failed to examine realities of Gaza occupationDate:02/02/2009 Any objective report card on the American media coverage of Israels war on Gaza would have a grade of C at best...
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US: Media ownership rules safe in FCC nominee Julius Genachowski's handsDate:16/01/2009 THE nomination of Julius Genachowski, 46, to replace Kevin Martin as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a hopeful step...
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Friday, 16 January 2009Last Modified:
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US: Media's 'speak truth to power' gapDate:20/02/2009 'Speak truth to power, a phrase of Quaker origins adopted by campus radicals, Hollywood gadflies and establishment journalists, has become shorthand for bravely criticizing government, big corporations and other stereotypical villains...
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US: Noonan v Staples - For The Good Of The CauseDate:09/03/2009 Defamation is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image...
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US: Now at Reason.tv: Freedom of Expression in the Age of ObamaDate:12/02/2009 At Reason Goes Hollywood, our 40th anniversary bash held November 14-15, 2008 in Los Angeles, Reason...
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US: Privacy Act still misapplied against reportersDate:16/01/2009 The ongoing dispute between Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter and former U...
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Friday, 16 January 2009Last Modified:
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US: Senate battles the FOI BillDate:16/10/2008 Attempt by the Senate Committee on Information to smuggle a controversial clause into the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill is drawing criticism from the public...
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US: Should Bloggers Be Afforded The Same Rights Granted To Journalists?Date:11/03/2009 Together with the ACLU of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Center for Freedom of Expression, we have intervened in a case pending in Buckingham County, Virginia in which a plaintiff in a defamation case retaliated against a blogger who covered his defamation suit in less than flattering terms by sending a highly invasive subpoena that demands production of the bloggers communications with his sources, IP numbers of all who posted on his web site or even READ the web site...
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US: Staples libel ruling concerns news media groupsDate:16/03/2009 Journalists who believe truth is the ultimate defense against libel suits fear that a federal appeals court has created a dangerous exception that could chill news reporting...
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US: Student's Free Speech Case May Lead To LegislationDate:05/02/2009 In his ruling on a pioneering Internet free speech case last month, U...
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US: Subpoena to blogger seeks everything, including Web site viewersDate:03/02/2009 A Virginia-based blogger is fighting a subpoena that seeks the identities of everyone who viewed an online article he wrote about a defamation lawsuit, the Citizen Media Law Project reports...
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US: Supreme Court deals death blow to antiporn lawDate:22/01/2009 The U...
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US: The Freedom of Information Act is BackDate:22/01/2009 A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency...
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US: The Rise of Soft CensorshipDate:03/02/2009 Among the accusations swirling around ousted Illinois Gov...
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US: Web 2.0 defamation lawsuits multiplyDate:09/02/2009 The Web 2...
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USA: 2 sides in 'shield law' fight over media near compromiseDate:25/03/2009 A compromise version of a bill that would give journalists limited protection from revealing their confidential sources was approved by a House committee on Monday, signaling an agreement between media groups and district attorneys who have sparred for several sessions over the shield law...
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USA: Blogger jailed for contempt in Smith caseDate:28/05/2009 A Houstonian who’s being sued by the mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith spent the holiday weekend in jail, making her the latest gossip blogger to pay a steep price for her hobby...
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USA: Charges Withdrawn after Controversial Message AlteredDate:27/01/2009 Charges have been withdrawn against a man who was cited for having obscene words printed on his truck...
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USA: Chicago Sun-Times Media Group Files for Bankrupcy ProtectionDate:01/04/2009 The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, a storied newspaper once home to legendary columnist Mike Royko and other greats, followed its hometown rival by filing for bankruptcy protection Tuesday raising questions about whether both can survive in a brutal time for newspapers...
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USA: Corporate Counsel Launches New “Daily Alert” E-Newsletter for In-House Attorneys Date:03/06/2009 Incisive Media’s Corporate Counsel, the nation’s leading print and online magazine for general counsel and in-house attorneys at corporations across the country, today launched its new “Daily Alert...
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USA: Don't pan Michigan's movie law yetDate:07/04/2009 State lawmakers need to see the full picture before editing the tax incentives for film makers...
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USA: Internet Child-Protection Bill Raises Too Many QuestionsDate:25/02/2009 Are you a child molester? I know Im not...
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USA: Journalists need a federal shield lawDate:17/04/2009 The 1st Amendment protects freedom of the press in the broad sense, not just the freedom to publish what a reporter has learned...
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USA: Journalists warily eye Massachusetts libel rulingDate:09/03/2009 For decades, journalists have been guided by what most considered an absolute defense to libel lawsuits: If a news report is true, it cant be libelous...
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USA: Laws That Could Save JournalismDate:18/05/2009 Unless Congress embarks on far-reaching change in public policy to maintain the viability of journalism as it evolves online, we will soon find ourselves with the remnants of a broken industry incapable of providing the knowledge necessary to manage life in a complex world...
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USA: Liable for Libel? Massachusetts case may have chilling potential implications for news mediaDate:25/03/2009 A recent ruling by a federal appeals court reversed in part a Massachusetts District Court decision, raising considerable national concern among media organizations by calling into question the long-held principle that truth constitutes an absolute defense against charges of defamation...
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USA: Media groups urge court to protect anonymous speechDate:30/03/2009 Several news media organizations, including the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in an Illinois appellate court this week, urging the adoption of procedural safeguards to protect the identities of anonymous bloggers...
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USA: Obama revives Freedom of Information Act. Date:26/01/2009 During the campaign for President of the United States, Barack Obama pledged to revive the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that was undone during the administration of George W...
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USA: Officers Can Order Removal of VeilsDate:08/06/2009 Maryland Attorney General Douglas F...
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USA: Police say powder sent to NY media was harmlessDate:22/01/2009 Police say white powder sent in envelopes to the Wall Street Journal building in New York was harmless and probably was flour...
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USA: Ruling recognizes Detroit Free Press reporter’s right to protect his sourcesDate:23/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is thrilled with U...
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USA(Texas): Reporters' shield law faces final hurdleDate:08/05/2009 The Texas Legislature has made it possible for the state to join 36 other states in providing a reporters shield law...
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California Nonprofit Internews Network Joins Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! in Free Speech and Privacy InitiativeDate:29/10/2008 Internews Network, a nonprofit leader in fostering independent media and access to information around the world, has joined with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and other stakeholders to develop a global code of conduct to protect free speech and guard privacy against government interference on the Internet...
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FBI Arrests 4 Activists as “Terrorists” for Chalking Slogans, Leafleting and ProtestingDate:24/02/2009 It was only a matter of time...
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Mich. worker's blog sparks debate on free speechDate:02/10/2010 LANSING, Mich...
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Michigan Teacher Reprimanded in ‘Free Speech Flap’Date:03/11/2010 A Michigan teacher has been accused of bullying students in an incident sparked by the teacher himself wearing a purple shirt in a gesture of support toward gay students who suffer at the hands of bullies...
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NY Post cartoon sparks debate over freedom of expressionDate:26/02/2009 A political cartoon published by the New York Post earlier this month stirred the waters of an age-old debate, pitting freedom of the press against political correctness...
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Pentagon issues new rules for Guantanamo coverageDate:13/09/2010 Reporters Without Borders takes note of the new ground rules for journalists covering the “military commissions” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which the US Department of Defense issued on 10 September...
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UZBEKISTAN: ARTICLE 19 condemns sentencing of Uzbek journalist to ten years imprisonmentDate:10/10/2008 ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns the imprisonment of Uzbek journalist and human rights defender, Salijon Abdurakhmanov...
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UZBEKISTAN: ARTICLE 19 Wins Key Case at UN Human Rights CommitteeDate:11/05/2009 On 19 March 2009, the UN Human Rights Committee issued its decision in the case of Mavlonov and Sa'di v...
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UZBEKISTAN: Journalist sentenced to 10 years in prisonDate:16/10/2008 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns todays politicized imprisonment of independent journalist Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov and calls for his immediate and unconditional release...
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UZBEKISTAN: Media Freedom Needs Action As Well As DialogueDate:06/10/2008 The International Crisis Group has called for more action in respect of media freedom in Uzbekistan...
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Uzbekistan: Uzbek appeals court should overturn harsh sentenceDate:04/09/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Samarkand Regional Court in central Uzbekistan to overturn on appeal a 12 and a half year jail sentence given to independent journalist Dilmurod Saiid...
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Vanuatu Times right of reply breach 'alarming'Date:01/11/2010 Pacific Freedom Forum, Rarotonga COOK ISLANDS -- The refusal by the Vanuatu Times newspaper to allow the subject of a front page article right of reply is an ‘alarming’ breach of media ethics, says the Pacific Freedom Forum, PFF...
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Venezuela: 34 broadcast media shut down at government’s behestDate:03/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders vigorously condemns the massive closure of broadcast media on allegedly “administrative grounds...
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Venezuela: Authorities Threaten to Close another 29 Radio StationsDate:08/09/2009 On 5 September 2009, Minister Diosdado Cabello, Director of Venezuelan´s National Commission on Telecommunications (Conatel), announced that 29 unidentified radio stations will soon be forced to cease operations...
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Venezuela: Chavez Government Claims Venezuela Clamoring for Media CrackdownDate:03/08/2009 Infrastructure and Public Works Minister Diosdado Cabello, who oversees the government’s broadcasting policy, claimed Friday that the country was clamoring for the government to regulate freedom of expression – which in any case, he argued “isn’t the most sacred liberty in existence...
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Venezuela: Chavez Government Threatens to Revoke Venezuela TV, Radio LicensesDate:07/07/2009 Venezuela's Conatel regulatory agency said 285 radio and television stations will have their licenses revoked if they don't provide the entity with updated data on their operations, Public Works Minister Diosdado Cabello said Friday...
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