3 November 2011
IFEX Digest | 26 - 27 May 2010
Africa
Ethiopia
Pressure on media heightened in weeks before elections (Human Rights Watch)Guinea-Bissau
Newspaper office vandalised for publishing narcotics story (MFWA)Liberia
Newspaper website hacked (MFWA)Somalia
Insurgent group arrests three radio journalists in Afgoye (NUSOJ)+ Somali press freedom takes another blow, as journalists detained, attacked, and radio equipment seized (IPI)
Sudan
WiPC concerned by detained editor's reports of torture (WiPC)+ Several journalists on opposition daily tortured in prison (RSF)
+ End post-election repression (Human Rights Watch)
+ Sudanese editor charged with terrorism and espionage (CPJ)
+ IFJ demands freedom for journalists in Sudan (IFJ)
The Gambia
BBC journalist prevented from witnessing treason trial (MFWA)Americas
Colombia
Investigation stalls in journalist's murder (CPJ)Guatemala
Office break-ins part of wider problem (ARTICLE 19)Mexico
Journalist assaulted by political party supporters (CEPET)Riot police assault journalists during protest (CEPET)
Peru
IACHR to consider petition by families of Uchuraccay massacre victims (OLA)IAPA concludes mission to Peru (IAPA)
Venezuela
Reporters detained, photos deleted (IPYS)Asia and Pacific
Burma
Censors suspend two journals' publishing licences (Mizzima News)Thailand
As dust settles in Bangkok, media in Thailand considers its own injuries (SEAPA)Vietnam
Government crackdown on bloggers and websites (Human Rights Watch)Europe and Central Asia
Azerbaijan
Experts interrogated in Eynulla Fatullayev's hearing (IRFS)Belarus
Writer Vladimir Neklyayev and editor Sergei Voznyak released (WiPC)Serbia
ANEM urges government to appoint director of company tasked with assisting transition to digital broadcasting (ANEM)Turkey
Two reporters harassed in separate incidents (BIANET)+ DİHA reporter attacked on public bus (BIANET)
Reporter released pending trial after five months in detention (BIANET)
Telecommunications authority accused of concealing information on blocked websites (RSF)
Publisher and human rights activist faces imprisonment (WiPC)
Uzbekistan
Tashkent journalist receives death threats over critical article (CJES)Middle East and North Africa
Bahrain
Authorities ban import and sale of historical book (BCHR)Egypt
Drop charges against human rights defenders, blogger, Human Rights Watch urges (Human Rights Watch)+ Human Rights organisations respond with solidarity campaign against the government’s crackdown on media and human rights defenders (ANHRI)
+ Statement on the eve of the 26 June hearing in the case against Gamal Eid, Ahmed Seif and Amr Gharbeia (ANHRI)
+ Human rights activists in danger (EOHR)
+ A blogger and two human rights activists to be tried (RSF)
Iraq
CPJ calls for action following spate of recent attacks on the press in Iraqi Kurdistan (CPJ)Kuwait
ANHRI expresses fear of unfair trial (ANHRI)Yemen
Press Court gives five journalists suspended jail sentences (CPJ)Presidential pardon on 20th anniversary of country's reunification (RSF)
UN Committee against Torture deeply concerned about attacks against human rights defenders (CIHRS)
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