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3 November 2011
IFEX Digest | 24 - 25 February 2010
International
Human rights advocates present plan of action to Obama administration (Freedom House)
+ Obama meets human rights defenders, including ARTICLE 19, in human rights discussion (ARTICLE 19)
Sri Lanka's Lasantha Wickrematunge named 53rd IPI World Press Freedom Hero (IPI)
Africa
Angola
Government urged to release Cabinda rights defenders (Human Rights Watch)Côte d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast's suspension of France 24 is politicized (CPJ)Liberia
Security agency instructs printing press not to print newspaper (CEMESP)Rwanda
Three Rwandan journalists sentenced to prison (CPJ)Somalia
Radio reporter held by Al-Shabaab militia for past three days (RSF)Somali journalist arrested by Al-Shabab militia after reporting on execution (IPI)
Americas
Argentina
Journalist assaulted in La Leonesa, Chaco (FOPEA)Canada
CJFE condemns vandalisation of newspaper office (CJFE)Colombia
Five journalists mentioned in threatening pamphlet distributed in Cartago (FLIP)+ Five journalists fear for their lives after pamphlet calls them 'military targets' (IPI)
Photojournalist threatened in Cartagena (FLIP)
Cuba
RSF correspondent turns 60 in prison (RSF)Ecuador
Police officer assaults photojournalist (IPYS)Honduras
President Porfirio Lobo commits to press freedom (IAPA)United States
Human rights advocates present plan of action to Obama administration (Freedom House)+ Obama meets human rights defenders, including ARTICLE 19, in human rights discussion (ARTICLE 19)
Venezuela
Authorities arrest former police officer in Sambrano murder (CPJ)Asia and Pacific
Place communications rights at centre of development, radio broadcasters demand (AMARC)
Burma
Internet cafés in Sittwe ordered to monitor customers (Mizzima News)China
New regulations announced as Internet censorship reaches unprecedented level (RSF)Sri Lanka
Journalist's wife calls for investigation into his disappearance (CPJ)+ Sri Lankan journalist missing for one month (IFJ)
+ Cartoonist kidnapped two months ago still missing (RSF)
Sri Lanka's Lasantha Wickrematunge named 53rd IPI World Press Freedom Hero (IPI)
Europe and Central Asia
Italy
Google conviction could lead to prior control over videos posted online, reports RSF (RSF)Turkey
IFJ condemns terrorist charges against journalist (IFJ)Middle East and North Africa
Bahrain
Authorities suspend permits of two foreign correspondents (BCHR)Egypt
UN Rights Council: Egypt rejects important rights reforms, accepts others (CIHRS)Palestine
West Bank court sentences Palestinian journalist to 18 months in prison (RSF)Syria
Journalist released after three months in arbitrary detention (RSF)Tunisia
Boukadous's appeal on four-year sentence adjourned (ANHRI)United Arab Emirates
Access to independent online discussion forum blocked (RSF)+ Emirates endeavours on the policy: "We are open . . . for blocking!" (ANHRI)
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