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IFEX Communique Vol 16 No 32 - 7 August 2007
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 1:06 pm | IFEX
China under Fire in Run Up to Olympics / Iran Cracks Down on Journalists with Death Sentences, Prison Terms / United States: Editor Killed for Article Criticising Bakery / Sri Lanka: Student Journalist Gunned Down in Front of Home. More >>
Article 19 Calls On EU To Improve Transparency
Friday, 3 August 2007, 8:43 am | IFEX
Article 19 has made a submission to the Commission, identifying areas in which the Regulation currently falls short of international standards, including those recommended by the Council of Europe. More >>
IFEX Communique Vol 16 No 31 -- 31 July 2007
Wednesday, 1 August 2007, 11:29 am | IFEX
El Salvador: Police Use Anti-Terror Law to Suppress Protest / Putin Signs in Draconian Anti-Extremism Measures / Philippines: New Anti-Terror Law Challenged in Court / Tajikistan: President Urged to Veto Internet Defamation Law / Indonesia: Draft Bill ... More >>
IFEX Digest: 20-24 July 2007
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 11:55 am | IFEX
Recent headlines on freedom of expression collected from 71 non-governmental organisations that are members of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network that works to defend and promote the right to freedom of expression. More >>
IFEX Communique Vol 16 No 30 , 24 July 2007
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 2:32 pm | IFEX
The "IFEX Communiqué" is the weekly newsletter of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network of 71 organisations working to defend and promote the right to free expression. IFEX is managed by Canadian Journalists ... More >>
Freedom-Related Problems in Different Societies
Saturday, 14 July 2007, 12:47 am | IFEX
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) published a new book entitled 'Religion and Freedom of Expression: Freedom-Related Problems in Different Societies." The book covers various studies including the problem of the Freedom of Expression ... More >>
Human Rights Council Achieves Little, Says RSF
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 9:47 am | IFEX
A year after the creation of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to replace the discredited UN Human Rights Commission, Reporters Without Borders today voiced deep concern about the new body's functioning and, in particular, the obstructionist ... More >>
UN Tribunal To Investigate Journalists' Murders
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 10:26 am | IFEX
A bomb that exploded in Beirut's seafront on 13 June killing a vocal politician and eight others was the latest in a series of targeted attacks on anti-Syrian politicians and journalists, report human rights groups and press reports. More >>
China: Censorship Of Tiananmen Massacre Continues
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 3:56 pm | IFEX
A newspaper in southwest China has sacked three of its editors and four advertising staff over an ad paying tribute to mothers of protesters killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, report Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontiers, RSF) ... More >>
Ethiopia: Two Editors Could Face Death
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 3:55 pm | IFEX
Four editors and three publishing houses in Ethiopia were found guilty on 11 June of links to deadly 2005 protests against alleged poll-rigging, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, ... More >>
Women Journalists Becoming Targets
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 3:54 pm | IFEX
Two Afghan reporters and an Iraqi journalist who received numerous death threats for her work covering sectarian violence were killed last week, in a string of attacks against women journalists in conflict areas, report ARTICLE 19, the Committee to ... More >>
Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Jailed Journalist
Monday, 11 June 2007, 2:26 pm | IFEX
Cape Town, South Africa, 4 June 2007 - A Chinese journalist serving a 10-year prison sentence for revealing his government's orders to newspapers to censor their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen ... More >>
Dangers to Press Around the Globe
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:43 pm | IFEX
Nearly 60 journalists have been murdered in the past months, and prosecution of journalists for "treason" and "extremism" are on the rise, according to the annual half-year review of press freedom by the World Association of Newspapers. More >>
Police Brutality At Harare Protest
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 3:07 pm | IFEX
Free expression groups have deplored the use of brute force in stifling free expression and protest, seen in the beating and torture of the country's main opposition leader and others at a recent Harare protest. More >>
Iraq: Two Prominent Editors Murdered In Baghdad
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 5:37 pm | IFEX
Gunmen boldly murdered an Iraqi editor in Baghdad on 4 March 2007, four days after the body of another editor thought missing was identified in a Baghdad morgue. More >>
CPJ recounts a dangerous year
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 9:48 am | IFEX
New York, February 5, 2007 - Journalists were killed and jailed for the work in growing numbers in 2006, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports in its new analysis of international press conditions, Attacks on the Press. Targeted assassinations ... More >>
TV and radio stations ordered to stop broadcasting
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:40 am | IFEX
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the interim government head's decision to impose general censorship on the news media following an 11 January 2007 verbal order to radio and TV stations to stop broadcasting news programmes. Journalists ... More >>
IFEX Communiqué Vol 15 No 44
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 11:55 am | IFEX
1. Network of Cities Provides Refuge for Persecuted Writers 2. Nepal: Journalists Face Threats Despite Return to Democracy 3. Pakistan: Press Freedom Deteriorating, Journalist Killed 4. Peru: Proposed NGO Law Threatens Free Expression 5. Argentina: ... More >>
Internet Governance Forum in Athens Oversubscribed
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 10:11 am | IFEX
While the organizers had planned for 1,200 participants, some 1,600 persons have signed up to take part in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens 30 Oct.-Nov. 2. They include governments, intergovernmental organizations, NGOs and journalists. More >>
CPI To Honor Four Brave Journalists
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 12:16 am | IFEX
New York, October 11, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four journalists - from Colombia, Yemen, the Gambia and Iraq - with its 2006 International Press Freedom Awards in November. The awards ceremony will also commemorate CPJ's ... More >>
