12.06.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Colombia
3 journalists targeted in assassination plot resign themselves to period of temporary exile; increasing threats and attacks against journalists, human rights campaigners, union representatives and community activists [ID 250118]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Exile of journalists named in murder plot shows need for plan to combat impunity |
11.06.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Guinea
Conakry: Decline of security for news providers since April 2013; at least 15 journalists physically attacked and equipment damaged in growing political tension [ID 250122]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: "You journalists talk too much. You are spies, we are going to tear you apart” |
06.06.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
China
Netizens arrested for trying to commemorate anniversary of bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989 [ID 250131]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Tiananmen Square massacre heads long list of taboo subjects |
05.06.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Turkey
RSF condemns rigorous police action against media workers covering Gezi Park protests in Istanbul; 14 journalists injured since beginning of the protests [ID 249389]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: At least 14 journalists injured by security forces since start of protests |
04.06.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Congo
High Council for Freedom of Communication (CLSC) decides to suspend 3 independent Brazzaville-based newspapers – L'Observateur, Talassa and Le Trottoir – for 4 months for publishing “seditious articles”; a fourth, Le Glaive, suspended for 2 months [ID 248957]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Regulator suspends four independent newspapers |
02.06.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic
Skopje: Journalist Tomislav Kezarovski arrested by special forces on 28 May 2013 and sentenced to 30 days in prison on faked charge of revealing a protected witness's identity in 2008 [ID 249391]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Call for imprisoned journalist's immediate and unconditional release |
29.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Vietnam
Da Nang: Truong Duy Nhat, one of Vietnam's most influential bloggers, arrested by public security ministry officials under article 258 of criminal code [ID 249964]
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Open Document
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Media report: Newly-detained blogger insisted he was “neither criminal nor reactionary” |
29.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Uganda
Kampala: Police raids on 2 newspapers, forced closure of their printing presses and closure of 2 radio stations [ID 249967]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Police raids on two Kampala newspapers |
27.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Mexico
Young independent journalist, Verónica Basurto Gamero, criticizes Federal Mechanism for Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, which failed to protect her from dangers arising from her journalistic work [ID 250111]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Journalist who fled abroad describes protective mechanism's flaws |
25.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Zimbabwe
Despite new constitution, arrests and harassment of journalists continue in connection with forthcoming elections [ID 248952]
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Open Document
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Media report: Journalists still being harassed as elections loom |
24.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Congo, Democratic Republic
Fighting between M23 rebels and government forces and actions of some rebels endanger journalists and availability of diverse, freely-reported news and information [ID 250109]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Censorship reigns in Nord-Kivu areas under M23 rebel control |
24.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Bolivia
Caranavi: Community radio station affiliated to network of Radios of the Original Peoples (RPO) destroyed in clashes between 2 rival peasant groups [ID 250132]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Community radio destroyed in clashes between rival peasant groups |
24.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Ukraine
Sudden change of management at the opposition TV station TVi results in restrictions to TVi journalists independence [ID 248154]
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Open Document
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Media report: Ukraine - TVi's broadcasts suspended after new management bars journalists |
23.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Turkmenistan
Turkmenabat: Reporter for RFE/RL, Rovshen Yazmuhamedov, freed after more than 2 weeks of detention for unknown reasons [ID 248959]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: RFE/RL correspondent freed |
23.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Ukraine
Prime minister Azarov withdraws accreditation of 10 journalists who staged silent protest at cabinet meeting to draw attention to impunity enjoyed by attackers on 2 reporters during street demonstrations on 18 May 2013 [ID 249971]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Journalists stripped of accreditation over protest about attack on colleagues |
23.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Vietnam
Vinh: Court rules on appeals by 5 bloggers against their long jail terms on charges of attempted overthrow of regime [ID 249972]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Appeal court upholds jail time for five bloggers |
23.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Turkey
Istanbul: Turkish-Armenian journalist Sevan Nisanyan sentenced to 13.5 months in prison for posting insulting comments about prophet Mohammed in his blog [ID 249392]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Journalist given 13 months in jail for insulting Mohammed |
22.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
India
Tripura state: 3 employees of Dainik Ganadoot, local Bengali-language daily based in Agartala, stabbed to death at newspaper's headquarters by 2 unidentified men [ID 248471]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Three newspaper employees murdered, police urged to act quickly |
22.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Congo, Democratic Republic
Ituri region: Body of radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro found 12 days after disappearance in Bunia [ID 249970]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Journalist's body found in river bed 12 days after his disappearance |
21.05.2013 -
Reporters Sans Frontières
Afghanistan
Kapisa Valley: Body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab, found near his home 18 days after he disappeared [ID 249968]
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Open Document
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Appeal or news release: Radio station technician and host murdered in Kapisa Valley |
