Reporters sans frontières esprime la propria profonda inquietudine per l’accanimento di cui è vittima il settimanale privato La Voix. Il 28 novembre 2009 uno dei suoi giornalisti è stato trattenuto per diverse ore dopo aver subito offese da parte del ministro dell’Interno. Le autorità contestano la “regolarità” del settimanale, le cui sorti saranno stabilite da [...]
Filed under: Ciad | Commenti disabilitati
“Questa iniziativa ha come unico scopo quello di rendere ancora più difficile la vita di Taoufik e la sua famiglia. Perché mai infatti un trasferimento in una prigione così lontana? Sua moglie, i suoi figli e i suoi avvocati avranno tutte le difficoltà di questo mondo per fargli visita. Le autorità tunisine si sono dichiarate [...]
Filed under: Tunisia | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders deplores the reported intention of the majority of the board of the German public television network ZDF – who are led by members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat Union – to reject the director-general’s request to renew editor-in-chiefNikolaus Brender’s contract for another five years. The press freedom organisation believes the opposition to [...]
Filed under: Germania | Commenti disabilitati
In the absence of any independent media, Reporters Without Borders condemns the state-owned media’s totally one-sided coverage of the campaign for the 29 November presidential election. After winning the 2002 election with 97.1 per cent of the votes, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has “promised” to win this one with more than 97 per cent again. [...]
Filed under: Guinea Equatoriale | Commenti disabilitati
The body of José Galindo Robles, the head of Radio Universidad de Guadalajara, was discovered at his home in Guadalajara, in the western state of Jalisco, on 24 November, after it was noticed that several days had gone by with no word from him. His body was found wrapped in a blanket and with the [...]
Filed under: Messico | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders notes that the authorities have finally arrested Andal Ampatuan Jr, the leading suspect in the 23 November massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province. Local reporters have meanwhile told Reporters Without Borders that the toll of journalists killed in the massacre has risen to 29. “All the bodies have been located and [...]
Filed under: Filippine | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters Without Borders is “extremely relieved” to learn that Canadian freelance reporter Amanda Lindhout and Australian freelance photographer Nigel Brennan were released today in Mogadishu. “This fortunate outcome ends a cruel ordeal for Lindhout and Brennan, who were held hostage for 15 months in very tough conditions,” Reporters Without Borders said. “They are still in the Somali [...]
Filed under: Somalia | Commenti disabilitati
Two bloggers in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso, economist Adriana Vandoni and lawyer Enock Cavalcanti, were ordered by judge Pedro Sakamoto on 10 November to withdraw all comments from their blogs (www.prosaepolitica.com.br and paginadoenock.com.br) that were “offensive” to José Riva, the president of the Mato Grosso legislative assembly. The judge also told them they [...]
Filed under: Brasile | Commenti disabilitati
A total of 26 journalists were among those killed in the 23 November massacre in Maguindanao province (on the southern island of Mindanao) by alleged supporters of the province’s governor, Andal Ampatuan Sr, according to journalists who have gone to the massacre site. “This bloodbath is beyond human understanding,” a journalist from the nearby city [...]
Filed under: Filippine | Commenti disabilitati
Reporters sans Frontières è “sconvolta” dalla segretezza che ha circondato la visita in Italia del presidente turkmeno Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. A Roma è arrivato il leader di uno dei paesi più repressivi del mondo, ieri ha incontrato una delegazione di uomini d’affari e oggi ha incontrato il primo ministro italiano Silvio Berlusconi. Contattato da Reporters sans Frontières, [...]
Filed under: Italia, Turkmenistan | Commenti disabilitati
