Secretary of State Hillary Clinton US Department of State Washington DC USA Paris, 28 October 2009 Dear Secretary of State Clinton, Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends press freedom worldwide, would like to draw your attention to the disturbing deterioration in the press freedom situation in Morocco on the eve of your official visit [...]
Filed under: Marocco | Messo il tag: Hillary Clinton, libertà di stampa, Marocco, RSF Italia, USA | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association condemn the arrests of at least three Burmese journalists and bloggers in a crackdown on Lin Let Kye, a citizen network of volunteers that has been helping the victims of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the south of the country last year. “Last month, the authorities released several [...]
Filed under: @ INTERNET, Birmania | Messo il tag: Birmania, blogger, Burma, giornalisti, libertà di stampa, RSF Italia | Commenti disabilitati
Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has told Reporters Without Borders of harassment and intimidation by the intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors. Duque, of Radio Nizkor, is about to present a file to the authorities exposing the persecution she has suffered since 2001 [...]
Filed under: Colombia | Messo il tag: arresto, Colombia, giornalista, libertà di stampa, RSF Italia, servizi segreti | Commenti disabilitati
Questo è un estratto della conferenza stampa tenuta in occasione del 3° anniversario dell’assassinio di Anna Politkovskaja. La conferenza è stata organizzata da Reporters sans Frontères a Mosca, il 6 ottobre 2009. In questo estratto (con sottotitoli in inglese) compaiono: Ilya Politkovsky, figlio di Anna Politkovskaya Tikhon Dzyadko, corrispondente russo per Reporters sans Frontères Sergey [...]
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Reporters Without Borders has surveyed access to websites dedicated to the Uyghur community, including sites in the Uyghur language, in Mandarin and sometimes in English. These sites, operated by Uyghurs for Uyghurs, are for the most part inaccessible both to Internet users based in Xinjiang and those abroad. More than 85 per cent of the [...]
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Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest of one journalist and a vicious assault on another following the re-election of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali as president for the fifth time on 24 October. In the run-up to polling, the president publicly warned his detractors that the law would be “brought to bear on anyone casting [...]
Filed under: Tunisia | Messo il tag: arresto, giornalista, libertà di stampa, RSF Italia, Tunisia | Commenti disabilitati
The exclusive account of Courtney C. Radsch, a US journalist who was recently fired by the Al Arabiya news website (www.alarabiya.net) in the United Arab Emirates for posting information about safety violations by the national air carrier, Emirates Airlines. “ On Sunday Oct. 4 one of my reporters asked me if we could write about a [...]
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Reporters Without Borders has been given an assurance by Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, elected on 4 August 2009, that freedom of the press will be one of his priorities. The head of state, on an official visit to Paris yesterday, met a delegation from the worldwide press freedom organisation and in a cordial [...]
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In the latest example of official paranoia and harassment of the press, Tashkent-based freelance journalists Vasiliy Markov and Sid Yanyshev were interrogated by police and members of the secret services about their work for more than 10 hours during a recent visit to the eastern border region near the city of Andijan. “The European Union has just [...]
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The Grenada Today weekly is apparently about to disappear as a result of a drawn-out libel suit by one of Grenada’s former prime ministers, Keith Mitchell. High court judge Claire Henry ordered its liquidation this week after the owners failed to reach an agreement with Mitchell over payment of an exorbitant damages award. “Grenada Today’s liquidation [...]
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