Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried for the safety of Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo, the BBC’s correspondent. After being threatened and roughed up by soldiers while covering the violent dispersal of an opposition demonstration two days ago in which hundreds died, they are now reportedly wanted by the military [...]
Filed under: Guinea | Commenti disabilitati
Confermando con una serie di azioni concrete quanto aveva annunciato, il governo “de facto” dell’Honduras, dopo aver sospeso le libertà civili con un decreto, ha fatto chiudere, lo scorso 28 settembre a Tegucigalpa, la stazione Radio Globo e il canale di televisione Canal 36. Le due emittenti erano già state sospese, a più riprese, e vittime [...]
Filed under: Honduras | Commenti disabilitati
Per Bjorklund, a Cairo-based Swedish freelance journalist and blogger who covered a recent wave of factory strikes in Egypt, was denied entry on returning to the country yesterday and his passport was confiscated, apparently because his name appeared on a blacklist. As he arrived in Cairo on a flight from Prague, he is reportedly to [...]
Filed under: @ INTERNET, Egitto | Commenti disabilitati
Hamma Hammami, the former editor of the banned newspaper Alternatives and spokesman of the Communist Party of Tunisian Workers (PCOT), was badly beaten by police on arriving at Tunis international airport yesterday from Paris, where he had criticised the government in an interview for Al Jazeera. “We no longer have the right to express our views in [...]
Filed under: Tunisia | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters senza frontiere preferisce una continuazione dello status quo nella governance internazionale di Internet, piuttosto che la creazione di un sistema intergovernativo per sostituire il controllo esistente dell’ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), organizzazione non-profit con sede in California. L’ICANN ha fin’ora sotto condotto la supervisione di Internet nell’ambito di un contratto con [...]
Filed under: @ INTERNET | Commenti disabilitati
Turning its words into actions, the facto government yesterday followed up its decree suspending civil libertiesby closing Radio Globo and Canal 36 television, two Tegucigalpa-based stations that had already been assaulted and suspended several times in the past three months for their opposition to the 28 June coup d’état. In both cases, the police evicted staff and confiscated [...]
Filed under: Honduras | Commenti disabilitati
Four days after a joint international press freedom mission to Belarus, Reporters Without Borders today called on the Belarusian government to stop obstructing the work of journalists working for foreign news media. The press freedom organisation has signed a statementissued by the mission at the end of its five-day visit noting that: “Accreditation of journalists working [...]
Filed under: Bielorussia | Commenti disabilitati
“Government security paranoia in the run-up to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October has led to a reinforcement of online censorship and abusive behaviour towards foreign journalists,” Reporters Without Borders said today. “A case of police brutality towards three foreign journalists was particularly [...]
Filed under: @ INTERNET, Cina | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders is today releasing the report of its latest visit to Mexico, which took place from 4 to 12 July. The release coincides with a Reporters Without Borders news conference in Washington at which the speakers will included Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, a Mexican journalist who fled to the United States and is now waiting [...]
Filed under: Messico | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders said today that the last vestiges of independent news were under threat after the de facto government signed a decree yesterday banning “unauthorised” public meetings and giving itself the power to close media “damaging public order” “Three months to the day after the 28 June 2009 coup, basic rights and public freedoms [...]
Filed under: Honduras | Commenti disabilitati
