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Volume 18 - 2009 Issue 14 (8 Apr.)

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International

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS LAUNCHES ARABIC WEBSITE: http://cpj.org/ar

Last week the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) launched the Arabic version of its website, featuring translated content from CPJ's Middle East and North Africa programme. Arabic-speaking journalists and media professionals can now access CPJ's alerts, statements and special reports about their region, including the full MENA chapter from CPJ's 2009 annual publication "Attacks on the Press".

International

ENTRIES WANTED FOR KURT SCHORK AWARDS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM

The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism celebrate freelance and local journalists who show great courage and commitment to reporting on controversial issues in a developing country or nation in transition. The deadline for applications is 22 June 2009.

Sri Lanka

WICKREMATUNGE WINS UNESCO'S WORLD PRESS FREEDOM PRIZE

UNESCO's World Press Freedom Prize has been posthumously awarded to a Sri Lankan editor who was critical of his government's war against the Tamil Tigers and predicted his own murder.

Thailand

BLOGGER GIVEN 10 YEARS FOR DEFAMING MONARCHY

A Thai engineer who allegedly sent online pictures that offended the royal family has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, report the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), ARTICLE 19, Index on Censorship and English PEN.

Russia

JOURNALISTS, RIGHTS DEFENDERS UNDER ATTACK

The Russian authorities should investigate the recent string of violent attacks on journalists and human rights defenders, IFEX members say.

Honduras

IFEX MEMBERS CONDEMN MURDERS OF JOURNALISTS

IFEX members have expressed outrage at the murder of two journalists in Guatemala and Honduras this week, countries "plagued by an overall lack of safety", said the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).

International

CUBA, CHINA, TUNISIA, IRAN NAMED WORST VIOLATORS OF INTERNET FREEDOM BY FREEDOM HOUSE

China's sophisticated efforts to control the Internet - most recently using regulations that demand video-sharing websites like YouTube to increase censorship - earned it a "not free" rating in Freedom House's new report on Internet and mobile phone freedom.