As the US troops begin their withdrawal from Iraqi cities today, many questions remain about the persons still detained by the US forces. Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the release of Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who has been held since last September. “The US armed forces are now withdrawing from the main Iraqi cities after [...]
Filed under: Iraq | Commenti disabilitati
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. He was 63. “There is an urgent need for an impartial investigation into all the circumstances of [...]
Filed under: Russia | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the order issued unilaterally yesterday by the head of the High Council for Communication (CSC), Daouda Diallo, suspending the operations of the Dounia radio and TV group “until further notice” for broadcasting an opposition coalition’s call to resist a presidential bid to amend the constitution. “People in Niger are outraged [...]
Filed under: Nigeria | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the impact of yesterday’s military coup d’état on press freedom. President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster was followed by a curfew during which the broadcasts of several radio and TV stations were suspended. “We condemn a coup against a democratically-elected president on principle, especially as it raises concern about respect [...]
Filed under: Honduras | Commenti disabilitati
Nothing and no-one comes out of Iran’s prisons. Iranians line up at the gates of the prison, looking for a name, searching for relatives of whom they have had no news. The same desperate search is replicated in all the cities of the country. The list of 700 names posted at the entrance to Evin [...]
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The privately-owned national TV station Teleamazonas has just been told it is being fined 40 dollars for “broadcasting unverified information.” The notification comes just a few weeks after it was fined 20 dollars on 3 June for “broadcasting a bullfight outside permitted viewing times.” The station, which is owned by banker Fidel Egas, could be [...]
Filed under: Ecuador | Lascia un commento »
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned the military junta for intimidating the press trying to cover recent national and international events, as a journalist was jailed for two years after being arrested near the home of Aung San Suu Kyi. “Since the UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Burma one might [...]
Filed under: Birmania | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the impact on press freedom of a government decision to restore the former Press Council, which will have the power to pass jail sentences on journalists and newspaper publishers. The decision comes amid continuing tension between the authorities and renewed threats against Jaffna-based Tamil newspapers. “A press council [...]
Filed under: Sri Lanka | Commenti disabilitati
Today’s Russian supreme court decision overturning the acquittal of three men accused in connection with the 2006 murder of journalistAnna Politkovskaya and ordering a retrial does not bring justice any closer in the case, Reporters Without Borders said. “We take note of this decision but it does not address the core of the case, which [...]
Filed under: Russia | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-year prison sentence against mountain guide Gonpo Tserangfor sending texts and emails abroad. The messages related to March 2008 demonstrations against the Chinese authorities. He was found guilty of “incitement to separatism” in the autonomous Tibetan prefecture of Degen, in Yunnan, southern China on 26 April 2008. “This sentence is [...]
Filed under: @ INTERNET, Cina | Commenti disabilitati
