3 November 2011
IFEX Digest | 23 - 24 June 2010
Africa
Angola
Human Rights Watch calls on government to end case against Cabinda rights defenders (Human Rights Watch)Benin
Media regulator restricts media coverage of elections (MFWA)The Gambia
Threats made against reporter for AP and Jollof News (IPI)Americas
Colombia
Incoming Santos administration must break with practices of Uribe years (RSF)Cuba
Dissident doctor and reporter paroled after nearly a year in pre-trial detention (RSF)Mexico
Reporter fired after receiving threats over article on drug-related violence (CEPET)Shots fired at "Noticias de El Sol de la Laguna" offices in Torreón (CEPET)
+ Support for local daily targeted in shooting attack (RSF)
IAPA to submit new case of unpunished journalist’s murder to IACHR (IAPA)
Peru
Supreme Court frees editor jailed on defamation charges (CPJ)+ Call for defamation to be decriminalised following editor's release (RSF)
Venezuela
Photojournalist briefly detained by police and National Guard officers (IPYS)Chavez ramps up efforts to silence critics (Freedom House)
Asia and Pacific
Pakistan
Journalist shot in Abbottabad (PPF)Philippines
Key witness in Ampatuan massacre case shot dead (SEAPA)+ Investigate killing of massacre witness (Human Rights Watch)
Another media practitioner killed, third in a week (CMFR)
CJFE concerned over killing of three journalists in the space of a week (CJFE)
Sri Lanka
Safe passage for Tissainayagam just one step toward free media in Sri Lanka, says IFJ (IFJ)Europe and Central Asia
Albania
Court fines Top Channel TV for airing alleged sexual harassment scandal tape (IPI)+ IFJ demands reversal of ruling against Albanian TV over undercover film (IFJ)
Hungary
IFJ rejects new media bill and calls for public debate (IFJ)+ Parliament due to vote on media reform package threatening press freedom (IPI)
Kyrgyzstan
Two journalists detained as violence continues (CPJ)+ Ensure safety, due process for detained activist (Human Rights Watch)
Russia
ARTICLE 19 welcomes Council of Europe resolution on the North Caucasus (ARTICLE 19)+ Freedom House applauds resolution on North Caucasus (Freedom House)
Turkey
Higher court to hear case of former Kurdish deputy after appeals court overturns two-year sentence (BIANET)Middle East and North Africa
Egypt
Wael Al-Abrashy to appear before Giza Criminal Court on 18 July 2010 (EOHR)Journalists on trial over criticism of tax law (CPJ)
Statement on the eve of the 26 June hearing in the case against Gamal Eid, Ahmed Seif and Amr Gharbeia (ANHRI)
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