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3 November 2011
Recueil 27 Novembre - 3 Décembre 2009
International
Pakistani editor receives WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom (WAN-IFRA)
Over 30 IFEX members endorse Vienna Declaration calling on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorism (IPI)
Africa
Chad
Authorities continue to hound new weekly, seek its closure (RSF)Democratic Republic of Congo
Journalist detained by intelligence agents in Béni (JED)Leading suspect in journalist's murder escapes from military cell in Bukavu (RSF)
Equatorial Guinea
President dominates state media election coverage, opposition invisible (RSF)Guinea
Free or charge rights defender, Human Rights Watch urges (Human Rights Watch)Somalia
Two journalists killed in Mogadishu suicide bombing, others injured (NUSOJ)+ Toll of journalists killed in suicide bombing increases to three (RSF)
Journalists launch action plan to counter media oppression (NUSOJ)
Further details emerge of kidnapped journalists' ordeal (IPI)
Trois journalistes tués et plusieurs autres blessés dans l’attentat-suicide de Mogadiscio (RSF)
Americas
Argentina
IAPA concerned at government bid to control newsprint production (IAPA)Bolivia
Police officers assault and detain television crew; journalist reports she was kidnapped (IPYS)+ Journalist abducted and held for over nine hours (IPI)
Brazil
Journalist caught in gunfire (IPYS)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)
Canada
Hydro-Québec remporte le prix de la Noirceur (FPJQ)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
Pakistani editor receives WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom (WAN-IFRA)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
Azerbaijan
Appeal of Fanat.az website not fulfilled (IRFS)Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia
Public broadcasters under threat in southeastern and central Europe (IPI)Georgia
Government department threatens to blackmail journalist (Norwegian PEN)+ Concern at attempts by special services to blackmail and intimidate investigative journalist (WAN-IFRA)
Germany
IFJ condemns political interference to remove TV chief (IFJ)+ No contract extension for ZDF Editor-in-Chief Nikolaus Brender (IPI)
Greece
IFJ condemns outbreak of violence against media (IFJ)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)Iran
Two prominent journalists sentenced to long prison terms (CPJ)Syria
Newspaper journalist is latest victim of wave of arbitrary arrests and trials (RSF)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)
Awards
Pakistani editor receives WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom (WAN-IFRA)
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