International Freedom of Expression Exchange: The global network for free expression
3 November 2011
Digest 27 November - 1 December 2009
International
Over 30 IFEX members endorse Vienna Declaration calling on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorism (IPI)
Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo
Leading suspect in journalist's murder escapes from military cell in Bukavu (RSF)Equatorial Guinea
President dominates state media election coverage, opposition invisible (RSF)Somalia
Journalists launch action plan to counter media oppression (NUSOJ)Further details emerge of kidnapped journalists' ordeal (IPI)
Americas
Brazil
Special commission presents amended right to information bill (ARTICLE 19)+ Special Commission passes right to information bill (ARTICLE 19)
Journalism student ordered to pay hefty amount in "moral damages" case after critical comments posted on his blog (ABRAJI)
Honduras
National Police officers detain Spanish journalist (C-Libre)Explosive device thown at television station building (C-Libre)
Radio América suffers grenade attack (C-Libre)
Mexico
Radio station director murdered in Jalisco state (RSF)+ Missing Mexican radio director found dead in his apartment (IPI)
State government official assaults journalist, files complaint against cartoonist (CEPET)
Crime reporter missing (WiPC)
Peru
Journalists attacked during confrontation between police and demonstrators (OLA)Venezuela
Individual accused of being behind journalist's murder to face new trial (IPYS)+ Breakthrough arrests of suspected instigators in two murders of journalists (RSF)
Asia and Pacific
Cambodia
Human Rights Watch submission to UN highlights free expression issues in the country (Human Rights Watch)India
Editor released after one month in prison (RSF)Pakistan
Gunmen fire at journalist's home (PPF)+ Prime Minister urged to investigate shooting attack, threats, censorship (RSF)
+ Attack against journalist's house still unpunished (IPI)
Lawyers attack media team on court premises (PPF)
Philippines
Press club president's home targeted by shooters (IFJ)Fifty-two IFEX members condemn massacre of journalists, call for justice (CMFR)
+ World's press calls on Philippines to act on massacre (WAN-IFRA)
Europe and Central Asia
Germany
IFJ condemns political interference to remove TV chief (IFJ)+ No contract extension for ZDF Editor-in-Chief Nikolaus Brender (IPI)
Russia
Television journalist dies after falling from window, local activists believe she was murdered (CJES)+ Journalist tumbles to death in suspicious circumstances (IPI)
Security guards attack journalists, prevent them from reporting (GDF)
Uzbekistan
Activist freed under government amnesty (Human Rights Watch)Middle East and North Africa
Egypt
Journalists, civil society groups call for freedom of information coalition (EOHR)Tunisia
TMG urges Tunisian government to free journalists and cease harassment (IFEX-TMG)+ Online journalist gets three months in prison (RSF)
+ Tunisia jails two critical journalists and harasses others (CPJ)
+ Yet another journalist sentenced to prison in Tunisia (IPI)
Journalist Taoufik Ben Brik sentenced to six months in prison with no parole (OLPEC)
+ Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik sentenced to six months in prison (IPI)
+ IFJ condemns jailing of leading Tunisian journalists (IFJ)
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