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A proposed "Law on Criminal Proceedings" would grant presiding judges the discretion – or consider requests by prosecutors – to order media outlets, under the threat of criminal liability, to cease reporting on legal procedures.
On 4 June, news presenter, editor and reporter Pradeep Kaphle who works at the Damauli FM was sacked without prior notice and his program banned.
In two separate sessions on 6 June 2013, the Specialized Press and Publications Court found a Yemeni daily guilty of defamation charges in one case and innocent in another, according to news reports.
The French radio station Europe1 said today that its reporter, Didier François, and photographer, Edouard Elias, had not been heard from in more than 24 hours as of 7 June 2013.
The Sri Lankan government needs to take serious measures to end enforced disappearances, provide information to families on the fate or whereabouts of their relatives, and prosecute all those responsible, Human Rights Watch said.
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ARTICLE 19 is concerned that a week after a UN independent expert recommended that the United Kingdom review its public order legislation, 21 climate activists have received criminal sentences for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly.
The Indian government recently began rolling out the Central Monitoring System (CMS), which will enable the government to monitor all phone and Internet communications in the country.
On 4 June 2013, President Aliyev signed a bill criminalize defamatory and offensive views expressed on the Internet. Online activists could now face up to three years in prison for posting critical views online.
Timothy Hallet Tracy, a U.S. filmmaker jailed in Venezuela since April on trumped-up charges of espionage, has been freed and deported from the country.
The seven newspapers named in a complaint on 15 May complaint have been accused of publishing “illegal information” and spreading fear among the population. Some of the charges are covered by Pakistan’s anti-terrorism legislation.
Twenty Egyptian organisations have come to gether to condemn in the strongest terms the verdict issued on June 4 by the Cairo Criminal Court which convicted 43 staff members of international NGOs in the so-called “foreign funding case.”
IFEX members sent a joint letter to President Museveni calling for an end to impunity in cases of police violence against the media, after a violent crackdown on a demonstration in May over media closures.
An interactive timeline of the Libel Reform Campaign.
The government should allow Nauru Broadcasting Service to fully report politics leading up to the 8 June 2013 general elections, says the Pacific Freedom Forum.
Members of the IFEX network speak about impact – the impact they’ve had, and how being a part of IFEX has had an impact on them.
Burundi's new media law introduces a requirement for journalists to have set levels of education, fundamentally undermines the protection of journalistic sources and imposes debilitating fines for media organisations who are deemed to be contravening the law.
A number of African countries have passed access to information legislation, but challenges of implementation remain.
IFEX marks World Refugee Day, 20 June 2013, with profiles of five people living in exile for practicing the right to free expression through their professions.
Despite his imprisonment, cartoonist Mohamed Saba’aneh continues to speak out for Palestinians with his art.
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