Reporters Without Borders deplores the transport and aviation minister’s use of a repressive law – which his government promised to amend – to prosecute Jonathan Leigh, the editor of the Freetown-based weekly The Independent Observer.
Slovenia, as EU president, asked to disown „outrageous“ comments by Slovenian sports minister
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by Slovenian sports minister Milan Zver’s recommendation yesterday, in an interview for the Associated Press, that Olympic athletes avoid talking about human rights while they are in Beijing. „This kind of statement by Slovenia, the…
CBS journalist and Iraqi interpreter kidnapped from Basra hotel
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the disappearance yesterday of a western journalist working for the US television network CBS and his Iraqi interpreter in the city of Basra, 590 km south of the capital. According to the latest…
Reporter ohne Grenzen veröffentlicht Jahresbericht 2008
Reporter ohne Grenzen: Gewalt an Journalisten steigt weltweit Meinungsfreiheit sinkt dagegen stetig – auch Österreich ist betroffen Immer mehr Journalisten werden Opfer politisch motivierter Gewalt: Bespitzelungen, Drohungen, Verhaftungen und Mord an Journalisten stehen in vielen Ländern auf der Tagesordnung. Der…
Arab League adopts strict rules for satellite TV stations
Reporters Without Borders condemns an agreement imposing draconian regulations on satellite TV content that was adopted yesterday in Cairo by the information ministers of 21 of the Arab League’s 22 member states. It authorises governments to punish offenders.
Imprisoned cyber-dissident denied adequate medical treatment
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…
Human rights activist Yang Chunlin to be tried next week
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…
Britische Olympische Gesellschaft darf Redefreiheit der Athleten nicht einschränken
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…
Journalist and managing editor charged with „publishing false news“
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…
Blogger has been held in interior ministry for past week
ROG begrüßt Enthaftung des Journalisten Ching Cheong
President Karzai tells delegation not to worry about journalist under sentence of death
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…
ROG begrüßt Enthaftung des Journalisten Ching Cheong
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…
Military appeal court urged to clear two men convicted of masterminding murder of journalist who was their friend
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…
Cyber-dissident Lü Gengsong sentenced to four years in prison
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 bans live programmes on state television
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…
A second radio journalist jailed for defamation
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…
Journalist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy released from jail
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…
Authorities urged to quickly reexamine case of journalist under sentence of death
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.
Stones thrown at German TV crew trying to interview imprisoned dissident’s wife
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…