3 November 2011
IFEX Digest | 18 - 22 June 2010
Africa
Burundi
Journalists under threat from mounting violence, political unrest (RSF)+ Pro-government radio station's disturbing comments (RSF)
Ethiopia
American journalist reporting in rebel area expelled (CPJ)Ghana
North Star radio station attacked by ruling party sympathisers (MFWA)Niger
Communications Ministry targets foreign media in new decree (MFWA)Americas
Bolivia
Mayor threatens to shoot journalist (IPYS)Canada
CJFE welcomes Air India report; calls for killers of journalist to be brought to justice at last (CJFE)Colombia
Journalist's website hacked (FLIP)Mexico
Local newspaper journalists are Mexico's forgotten victims, says RSF (RSF)IAPA marks sixth anniversary of Francisco Ortiz Franco's murder in Tijuana (IAPA)
+ IAPA to submit new case of unpunished journalist’s murder to IACHR (IAPA)
IAPA voices concern at attacks on "Noroeste" workers (IAPA)
United States
Supreme Court ruling a blow to free speech, says Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)Increased Patriot Act oversight welcome news for reader privacy advocates (PEN American Center)
Venezuela
Government asks INTERPOL for international arrest warrant for Globovisión's owner (IPYS)+ Chavez ramps up efforts to silence critics (Freedom House)
Politicians threaten journalist, photographer (IPYS)
Journalist fined, jailed and banned from working, after accusing mayor of nepotism (IPI)
Asia and Pacific
Philippines
Third Filipino journalist killed in five days (IPI)+ Journalist gunned down in another possible case of post-electoral violence (RSF)
+ Third Philippine journalist killed in one week (CPJ)
+ Another media practitioner killed, third in a week (CMFR)
+ CJFE concerned over killing of three journalists in the space of a week (CJFE)
Two broadcasters killed in separate incidents (CMFR)
Sri Lanka
Freed Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam arrives in United States (CPJ)Thailand
Government creates agency to pursue lese majeste violators online (SEAPA)Europe and Central Asia
Armenia
Reporter detained while covering rally (CJES)Azerbaijan
IRFS sends appeal to Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly summer session participants (IRFS)Belarus
Effort to shut down paper seen in filing of lawsuit (CJES)France
French government stops Alaqsa channel from broadcasting on Eutelsat (ANHRI)Iceland
New legislation to provide exemplary protection for freedom of information (RSF)Russia
Human rights lawyer beaten by police in Dagestan (Human Rights Watch)Human Rights Watch calls on authorities to drop slander charges against rights advocate (Human Rights Watch)
Masterminds still unpunished 12 years after journalist's murder (CJES)
Turkey
Man who threatened "Agos" newspaper employees given three-year prison sentence (BIANET)Journalist acquitted in "insult to president" case (BIANET)
Journalist fined for criticising judge (BIANET)
Editor of women's magazine detained since March, faces three-year sentence (BIANET)
Change of prosecutor - journalist Namik Durukan's trial postponed (BIANET)
Supporters of conscientious objector convicted (BIANET)
Ukraine
Presidential security officer assaults journalist (IMI)Middle East and North Africa
Egypt
IFJ condemns criminal charges against editor and journalist (IFJ)+ Wael Al-Abrashy to appear before Giza Criminal Court on 18 July 2010 (EOHR)
+ Journalists on trial over criticism of tax law (CPJ)
+ Journalists who challenged constitutionality of real estate tax bill to be tried before a criminal court (ANHRI)
Young activist's death mobilises public opinion against police violence (RSF)
+ Latest impunity victims: Security tortures and kills man in internet café (ACM)
+ EOHR's campaign to combat the phenomenon of impunity (EOHR)
Iran
One year on, repression continues: RSF calls for release of prisoners of opinion (RSF)Journalist sentenced to one year in jail, 30-year ban on writing (CJFE)
Israel
Journalists assaulted by Israeli forces in Biet Jala (MADA)Kuwait
CPJ protests journalist's ongoing detention (CPJ)Lebanon
Draft law on information technology limits freedom of expression, says Maharat (Maharat Foundation)+ Lebanese parliament votes on flawed communications bill (ANHRI)
+ Lebanon's parliament must revise repressive tech bill (CPJ)
Palestine
Journalists assaulted by Israeli forces in Biet Jala (MADA)Syria
Human rights organisations express concern over lawyer's trial and call for his release (CIHRS)Authorities refuse to release journalist on completion of sentence (RSF)
+ The Syrian government re-arrests the writer Ali Abdullah (ANHRI)
+ Political detainee, sentence ended, held on new charges (Human Rights Watch)
+ Syria detains journalist beyond sentence (CPJ)
Tunisia
IFEX-TMG condemns adoption of new law against government critics (IFEX-TMG)+ Tunisia moving forward with restrictive bill for press (CPJ)
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