The family of cyber-dissident Jin Haike, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence, is very worried about his state of health. He has been suffering from unexplained stomach pains ever since recently undergoing a belated operation for the removal of…

Yang Chunlin, a human rights activist who has been held since July 2007 for taking part in the „We want human rights not Olympic Games“ campaign, is to be tried on 19 February. His lawyer, Li Fangping, said he feared…

Die Pressefreiheitsorganisationen Reporter ohne Grenzen und Article 19 haben heute den Chef der Britischen Olympischen Gesellschaft (BOA), Simon Clegg, aufgefordert, jegliche Maßnahmen zu unterlassen, die zu einer Einschränkung der Redefreiheit der britischen Athleten während der Olympiade 2008 in Peking führen…

Reporters Without Borders today condemned charges laid against Mike Chipalasa, of the privately-owned Daily Times, and its managing editor, James Mphande, for „publishing false news likely to lead to a breach of public order“. The charges relate to an article…

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the undertakings given today by President Hamid Karzai as regards Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young journalist who has been sentenced to death on a trumped-up charge of distributing information that insulted Islam. Karzai told a delegation…

Reporter ohne Grenzen ist erleichtert über die gestrige Freilassung des chinesischen Journalisten Ching Cheong, der zwei Jahre vor Ende seiner Gefängnisstrafe auf Bewährung frei kam. Ching hatte von Hong Kong aus als Korrespondent der Tageszeitung Straits Times mit Sitz in…

Reporters Without Borders and Journalist in Danger (JED), its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, urge the military judicial authorities in the eastern city of Bukavu to release Serge Muhima and Alain Mulimbi Shamavu, close friends of slain journalist…

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the four-year prison sentence passed today by an intermediate court in the eastern city of Hangzhou on cyber-dissident Lü Gengsong for „inciting subversion of state authority.“ Lü had spent 10 months in pretrial detention.

Information minister Iyad Madani announced a nationwide ban on all live broadcasts on Saudi public TV channels on 30 January, two days after angry viewers made unflattering comments about senior officials, including King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, during a phone-in…

Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of radio show host Julito Ucab, who has been held in Butuan City, on the southern island of Mindanao, since 22 January for failing to attend a court hearing on a defamation case dating…

Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the release from prison of journalist and dissident Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, after nine months and eight days in prison. She was sentenced to nine months in prison by a court in Hanoi today for…

A demonstration was held today in Kabul in support of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, while the senate issued a statement disagreeing with the statement issued yesterday by the senate president supporting Kambakhsh’s death sentence.

Four journalists with the German TV station ARD had to abandon an attempt to meet Yuan Weijing, the wife of imprisoned lawyer and human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, on 24 January. As they approached her home in a village in…

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association firmly condemn the arrest of blogger and writer Nay Myo Latt yesterday at his home in the Rangoon district of Thingankyun.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Fiji TV reporter Emily Moli and cameraman Shalendra Datt for „disobeying a police order“ on 23 January, when they went to cover a dispute between the principal and administration of Rishikul Sanatan high…

Two journalists and eight other pro-democracy activists who signed the Damascus Declaration, an appeal for „radical democratic change,“ were brought before a judge in Damascus yesterday, six weeks after the start of a wave of arrests, and were formally charged…

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Syed Jaymal Zahiid of the news website Malaysiakini while covering a demonstration by the Coalition Against Inflation at the foot of the Petronas towers, Kuala Lumpur’s most famous landmark, on 26 January. A…

Constant harassment of the media shows that serious efforts are needed by the authorities to bring Turkey’s laws and judicial practices into line with democratic standards, Reporters Without Borders said today. „Laws under which any comment straying from the standard…