Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the “shameful” 20-year jail sentence which a Colombo high court passed today on journalist J.S. Tissainayagam on charges of supporting terrorism and inciting racial hatred in his articles. “The imposition of this extremely severe sentence on Tissainayagam suggests that some Sri Lanka judges confuse justice with revenge,” Reporters Without Borders [...]
Filed under: Sri Lanka | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders condemns reporter Huy Duc’s dismissal by the governmental daily Sai Gon Tiep Thi on 25 August for posting criticism of the Cold War-era Soviet Union on his personal blog. “The sole aim of this arbitrary and ideological dismissal was to extend the reach of the censorship already exercised over all the governmental press”, Reporters [...]
Filed under: @ INTERNET, Vietnam | Commenti disabilitati
Filed under: Marocco | Commenti disabilitati
As the world marks the 26th International Day of the Disappeared on 30 August, Reporters Without Borders has provided a grim reminder that nothing has been heard, sometimes for years, of scores of journalists, who have been kidnapped, arrested or simply kept “appointments” that turned out to be traps. “Whether carried out by agents of [...]
Filed under: - Mondo | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders said today it was deeply shocked by the murder in Ciudad Juárez, northern Mexico of an official heading the investigation into the murder of journalist Armando Rodríguez, who was shot dead on 13 November 2008.. Pablo Pasillas, aged 33, who worked for the prosecutor’s office, had taken over the case from his superior officer [...]
Filed under: Messico | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an Amsterdam court’s ruling today that the Associated Press violated the Dutch royal family’s privacy by distributing photos of them in an Argentina ski resort. The court ordered the news agency to pay 1,000 euros for each further publication of the photos up to a ceiling of 50,000 euros. [...]
Filed under: Olanda | Commenti disabilitati
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. The security forces intervention, in which broadcast equipment was forcibly seized, was ordered by the courts over a failure to pay royalties. “If there is a dispute between the [...]
Filed under: Senegal | Commenti disabilitati
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. Communications minister Laure Olga Gondjout today nonetheless tried to defuse tension and concerns by spelling out the rules for journalists on voting day. The election is to choose a [...]
Filed under: Gabon | Commenti disabilitati
Ukrainian forensic experts have concluded that the skull that was found with the help of Gen. Olexy Pukach, a former interior ministry intelligence officer who was arrested on 21 July, is that of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist who was murdered in September 2000. This was announced at a news conference today by Valentyna Telychenko, the lawyer [...]
Filed under: Ucraina | Commenti disabilitati
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. In one case this week, a journalist was beaten by police and detained for 48 hours. “We are disturbed to see that the media have [...]
Filed under: Nepal | Commenti disabilitati
