19 December 2011
IFEX Digest | 12 - 18 December 2011
Africa
Benin
Benin press regulators halt publication of daily "Le Béninois libéré" (RSF)Burundi
Three questions to Radio Publique Africaine manager Eric Manirakiza (RSF)Democratic Republic of Congo
Radio station shuttered, four journalists in custody (JED)Kenya
Journalist threatened for his reporting (CPJ)Malawi
Government recommends review of draconian laws (MISA)Somalia
Journalists' association leader harassed, briefly detained (NUSOJ)South Sudan
Newspaper editor receives death threat (ANHRI)The Gambia
Authorities fail to find editor's killers after seven years (MFWA)Zambia
Harassment by US embassy security prompts boycott threat by local journalists (MISA)Zimbabwe
Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe personnel denied freedom (MISA)Americas
International press organisations review state of free speech and press freedom (IAPA)
Argentina
IAPA renews its rejection of interference by government in newsprint production (IAPA)Brazil
Journalists threatened in Belém and Altamira (ABRAJI)Journalist threatened by politician's brother (ABRAJI)
Ecuador
Tribunal dismisses charges against magazine (Fundamedios)Judge shelves case against native leader (Fundamedios)
Honduras
Members of presidential guard, police suppress journalists' protest; two members of C-Libre assaulted (C-Libre)+ Soldiers use clubs to disperse women journalists demonstrating outside presidential palace (RSF)
Security analyst who spoke out against organised crime assassinated (C-Libre)
Jamaica
IPI endorses Press Association of Jamaica letter to prime minister (IPI)Peru
Journalist reports being assaulted by municipal councillors he is investigating (IPYS)Journalist assaulted by individuals associated with mayor; another reports receiving death threats (IPYS)
Journalist receives two-year suspended prison sentence (IPYS)
United States
Freedom House endorses Global Online Freedom Act (Freedom House)Venezuela
Court rejects Globovisión journalists' intervention against US$2.1 million fine (IPYS-Venezuela)Media Social Responsibility Law violates freedom of expression, says ARTICLE 19 (ARTICLE 19)
Asia and Pacific
China
Government imposes media blackout on village protests (IFJ)India
IFJ calls for transparency in case of arrested journalist (IFJ)Nepal
Maoist party member threatens local journalist over story (Freedom Forum)Government expels UN human rights watchdog (ARTICLE 19)
Europe and Central Asia
Azerbaijan
"Khural" editor receives death threat (CJES)Croatia
IPI condemns new death threats against journalist (IPI)Hungary
IFJ condemns political manipulation at public TV stations (IFJ)Russia
Impunity still reigns in beating of Oleg Kashin (CPJ)Journalists' house burgled, dog poisoned (CJES)
Journalist and human rights activist killed in Dagestan (IPI)
+ Killing of "Chernovik" founder in Dagestan must be investigated (CPJ)
+ Newspaper publisher killed in Dagestan on journalist remembrance day (ARTICLE 19)
+ Investigate murder of Dagestan publisher (Human Rights Watch)
Global journalists' community joins IFJ to mark memorial day for dead colleagues (IFJ)
Serbia
ANEM concerned about proposed Cinematography Act (ANEM)Turkey
Singer faces two lawsuits, multiple investigations (BIANET)Ukraine
Former president must be prosecuted in Gongadze murder, says CPJ (CPJ)Middle East and North Africa
Crackdown on human rights defenders: seeds of repression planted in year of revolution (CIHRS)
Bahrain
Police use tear gas, stun grenades to disperse protesters on highway outside capital (BCHR)Government urged to provide adequate protection to all human rights defenders (BCHR)
Egypt
Rights organisations condemn military court's sentencing of blogger (ANHRI)+ Egyptian blogger sentence is an insult to press freedom (CPJ)
+ Maikel Nabil Sanad’s two-year jail term "insults spirit of Egyptian revolution" (RSF)
CPJ calls on government to investigate attacks on the press (CPJ)
+ Press freedom violations cast dark shadow over elections (IPI)
Previously acquitted journalists now jailed in libel case (ANHRI)
Iran
RSF condemns ongoing crackdown on journalists, media (RSF)Lebanon
Film banned for allegedly "endangering public security" (ANHRI)Palestine
ANHRI condemns ongoing harassment, arrests, detentions of media workers (ANHRI)MADA, Palestinian journalists meet with UN free expression rapporteur (MADA)
Syria
Syria must release imprisoned journalists, says CPJ (CPJ)Photographer and film producer Guevara Nemer detained (ANHRI)
+ Journalist detained at Damascus Airport (ANHRI)
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