3 November 2011
IFEX Digest | 20 - 26 September 2010
International
Five IFEX members urge UN to abandon efforts to prohibit defamation of religions (PEN American Center)
Right to information: Global index released for comment (ARTICLE 19)
Africa
Angola
Angolan Journalist Alberto Graves Chakussanga gunned down (MISA)Eritrea
Journalists still hunted down nine years after September 2001 purges (RSF)Ghana
Prison officers storm radio station, assault staff (MFWA)Lesotho
Cabinet delays implementation of media policy (MISA)+ Prime minister gives assurance on media policy (MISA)
Somalia
Stop hostilities, embrace peace: NUSOJ statement on International Day of Peace (NUSOJ)Two radio stations taken over by militants (NUSOJ)
+ Attacks on Mogadishu radio stations leave journalists in untenable situation (RSF)
Uganda
Five suspects arrested for journalist's murder (HRNJ-Uganda)Photojournalist evacuates family over threats by government officials (HRNJ-Uganda)
MISA seeks justice for brutal murder of Ugandan journalists (MISA)
Zimbabwe
Artist granted leave to refer to Supreme Court (MISA)Americas
Argentina
Access to information bill advances in Congress (ARTICLE 19)Aruba
IAPA condemns mistreatment of press in Chile; expresses concern over attack on journalist in Aruba (IAPA)Bolivia
Concern about article in proposed law against racism (RSF)Brazil
Media group prevented from publishing information about Senate candidate (ABRAJI)Police seize newspapers, detain journalist in Mato Grosso do Sul (ABRAJI)
Chile
IAPA condemns mistreatment of press in Chile; expresses concern over attack on journalist in Aruba (IAPA)Colombia
Journalist in Putumayo receives death threats (FLIP)In response to IAPA request, Attorney General reopens investigations into cases of murdered journalists (IAPA)
Another journalist denied visa by western government (RSF)
Ecuador
Television station manager murdered along with her husband (Fundamedios)Journalist's bank account frozen on judge's orders (Fundamedios)
Journalists subjected to insults and harassment after publishing investigative book (Fundamedios)
+ Minister "summons" journalists to provide statements (Fundamedios)
+ Minister threatens to file lawsuit if book is not withdrawn from circulation (Fundamedios)
Honduras
Critical Honduran reporter survives shooting attack (CPJ)Mexico
President Calderón pledges to push for legal reforms and protection to safeguard press freedom (IAPA)+ IAPA-CPJ mission to meet with Mexico's President Felipe Calderón (IAPA)
+ Calderón to support federalization of anti-press crimes (CPJ)
Journalist killed, colleague injured in gunfire attack (CEPET)
+ Trainee becomes 11th journalist to be murdered this year in Mexico (RSF)
+ Two photographers shot in Juárez; one killed (CPJ)
+ IAPA calls for international action to halt crimes against journalists (IAPA)
+ IFJ condemns deadly attack on journalists in Mexico (IFJ)
+ Newspaper curbs drug cartel coverage after death of journalist (IPI)
+ Newspaper's call for truce sign of government failing to protect (ARTICLE 19)
Asia and Pacific
Afghanistan
Three journalists freed after President Karzai intervenes (RSF)+ Three journalists freed (CPJ)
+ NATO frees Afghan journalist (IPI)
Three journalists arrested over election coverage, contact with Taliban (RSF)
+ IFJ accuses NATO and calls for release of Al Jazeera cameramen (IFJ)
+ Two journalists seized by ISAF forces (CPJ)
Burma
Editors secure release of reporter detained over coverage of flooding (Mizzima News)Journalist arrested for taking pictures of flooded areas (Mizzima News)
Junta announces conditions for poll campaigning over state-run media (Mizzima News)
Cambodia
Opposition leader sentenced to 10 years in prison (Human Rights Watch)China
Strings attached to release of detained writer (IFJ)+ Author of book about Sanmenxia Dam freed on bail (RSF)
India
Strict curfew silences media in Kashmir (RSF)Mongolia
IFJ condemns confiscation of newspaper computer in Mongolia (IFJ)Nepal
Journalist severely beaten by unknown individual (Freedom Forum)Pakistan
IFJ calls for prompt inquiry into murder of senior journalist (IFJ)+ Second journalist killed in a week in Pakistan's northwest (CPJ)
Philippines
Housing mogul threatens "Philippine Daily Inquirer" correspondent (CMFR)Philippines siege - IFJ warns against charging journalists (IFJ)
Thailand
Webmaster of independent news site arrested on charges of violating computer law (SEAPA)+ Police arrest web editor on anti-crown charge (CPJ)
+ News website editor arrested on return from international conference (RSF)
+ Website editor facing possible combined sentence of 82 years in prison (RSF)
Authorities still using emergency powers to suppress free expression and other rights, says Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)
Europe and Central Asia
ECHR ruling bolsters media freedom, says ARTICLE 19 (ARTICLE 19)
+ Press groups welcome European Court ruling on protection of sources (WAN-IFRA)
Azerbaijan
IRFS appeals to President Obama to address press freedom issues during meeting with President Aliyev (IRFS)Six IFEX members and other NGOs issue joint statement on deterioration of free expression ahead of elections (ARTICLE 19)
+ Joint mission concerned by state of freedom of expression ahead of elections (ARTICLE 19)
Belarus
Reporter found hanged (CJES)Kyrgyzstan
Seriously ill Uzbek journalist remains detained (WiPC)Moldova
Media organisations express concern over broadcasting council's decision on election ads (Independent Journalism Center)Netherlands
Press groups welcome European Court ruling on protection of sources (WAN-IFRA)Turkey
Five children and pro-Kurdish party district chairman arrested for distributing leaflets (BIANET)Journalist, nine others face up to 13 years in prison (BIANET)
Writer's trial moved to higher court (BIANET)
Folk musician charged with "praising a criminal and criminal activities" (BIANET)
+ Pinar Sag case, double standards in judiciary? (BIANET)
ECHR orders Turkey to provide compensation to murdered journalist's family (BIANET)
+ Turkey must bring justice in Dink murder after ECHR ruling (CPJ)
+ Uncover plot behind journalist's murder (Human Rights Watch)
+ IFJ welcomes court condemnation of Turkey over murder of journalist (IFJ)
Appeals court upholds sentence against mayors (BIANET)
Journalists Durukan and Çakkalkurt facing jail sentences (BIANET)
Ukraine
Journalist suffers savage beating in Donetsk (IMI)Joint statement on the 10th anniversary of journalist Gyorgy Gongadze's death (IMI)
+ Ukraine says late minister ordered Gongadze murder (CPJ)
+ International conference: "10 years on – No justice for Georgiy Gongadze – the need to find new ways to fight impunity" (ARTICLE 19)
+ World's press calls for further investigation into Ukraine murder (WAN-IFRA)
United Kingdom
Another journalist denied visa by western government (RSF)Middle East and North Africa
Algeria
Polisario arrests rare dissenter in refugee camps (Human Rights Watch)+ Mustapha Salmi's fate must be declared and right to peaceful expression should be respected, says ANHRI (ANHRI)
IFJ demands freedom of movement for Moroccan journalists (IFJ)
Bahrain
Four IFEX members and other organisations highlight international community's worrying silence on growing campaign of repression (CIHRS)Crackdown on free expression results in blocking of political society's website (BCHR)
+ Continued war on human rights defenders in Bahrain (ANHRI)
Bahrain’s big experiment with democracy: the missing facts (BCHR)
Egypt
Human rights lawyer barred from entering country (ANHRI)Iran
Blogger held by Revolutionary Guards could face death penalty (RSF)Authorities convict two journalists; consider death penalty for blogger (CPJ)
+ ANHRI resents sentencing of journalist (ANHRI)
+ CJFE and PEN Canada deeply concerned about death sentence for Canadian journalist (CJFE)
+ Freedom House condemns sentencing of activist (Freedom House)
+ IFJ slams Iran over jail term for leading journalist (IFJ)
Iraq
Life sentence for militants who held two French journalists hostage in 2004 (RSF)Mounting tension between ruling parties and journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan (RSF)
Kuwait
Thirty-five books banned from Kuwaiti Book Fair (ANHRI)Palestine
Journalist's home raided in Khanyounis (MADA)Syria
Release detained blogger Tal al-Mallouhi, ANHRI tells Syrian president (ANHRI)+ CPJ alarmed by detention of blogger (CPJ)
+ In solidarity with Tal: meeting on 2 October 2010, Journalists Syndicate, Cairo (ANHRI)
Release student blogger held incommunicado (Human Rights Watch)
Tunisia
IFJ condemns police obstruction of demonstration for imprisoned journalist (IFJ)Yemen
One journalist's detention extended, another released (RSF)+ Cartoonist still held despite court's release order (RSF)
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