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Wed. December 03, 2008

Russia - Government puts combating press before combating economic ...

CNW Telbec (Communiqu� de presse)
December 3, 2008

"Monitoring the content of Articles about the Russian economic situation is a disturbing and surreal political choice," Reporters without Borders said. ...

Another large fine imposed on embattled Arabic-language daily

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 3, 2008

"The courts have become a tool for censoring the independent press in Morocco," Nini told Reporters without Borders. "Whoever sues our newspaper is nowadays ...

Intelligence agency pressures newspaper editor to reveal source of ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 3, 2008

Reporters Without Borders condemns the harassment of independent journalist Ramazan Esergepov by the National Security Committee (KNB), which wanted him to ...

Seven years after radio journalist's murder, convicted killers ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 3, 2008

Seven other people who were convicted in absentia of his murder in January of this year are still on the run, Reporters without Borders pointed out, ...

No sign that jailed blogger Dieu Cay will get fair appeal

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 3, 2008

Reporters without Borders calls on the Vietnamese authorities to stop manipulating the legal proceedings against blogger and human rights activist Nguyen ...

Reporters Sans Borders is outraged by killing of broadcaster in ...

Mindanao Examiner
December 3, 2008

Reporters without Borders is outraged by the murder of Leo Mila, a Radyo Natin presenter in San Roque, in the central province of Northern Samar. ...

Journalist's body found two months after he went missing, identity ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 2, 2008

Reporters without Borders condemns the murder of Jagat Prasad Joshi, also known as JP Joshi Pandit, a journalist with the local edition of the Maoist daily ...

Concern about wave of attack on media in northwest

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 2, 2008

Reporters without Borders expressed concern today for press freedom in northwestern Argentina after recent threats and censorship efforts, including some ...

russia: A dubious trial

Monday Morning
December 2, 2008

Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media rights group, praised the decision to hold an open trial but said more needed to be done to investigate the ...

Alberta journalist held hostage in Somalia believed to be fine

Calgary Herald
December 2, 2008

... photojournalist Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, but things are moving slowly, said Leonard Vincent, Africa desk chief of Paris-based Reporters without Borders. ...

Four-year sentence for online journalist who posted dissident ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 1, 2008

Reporters without Borders condemns the four-year prison sentence which a special court for the clergy in the religious city of Qom imposed on online ...

French police treatment of journalist raises free-speech issues

International Herald Tribune
December 1, 2008

France ranks 35th in press freedom in a list of countries established by Reporters without Borders - just below Mali - and Sarkozy himself has not shied ...

Newspaper editor jailed in Nouakchott after being extradited from ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
December 1, 2008

Reporters without Borders condemns the imprisonment of Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, the editor of the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly Al-Aqsa, ...

Strangling Press Freedom In Iran

Voice of America
December 1, 2008

The press freedom organization Reporters without Borders has called Iran "the Middle East's biggest prison for Journalists." In 2007, more than fifty ...

Journalist Detention, Search, Sparks French Outcry

Javno.hr
December 1, 2008

His arrest also sparked outcry from CFDT, a French union for journalists, and Paris-based journalist watchdog, Reporters without Borders. ...

Belgian news crew assaulted in China

Digital Spy
December 1, 2008

... station VRT had been in Central China interviewing a number of people about the disease when they were set upon, claims Reporters without Borders. ...

BIA Media Monitoring Report For The Third Quarter of 2008 (3)

BİA
December 1, 2008

Reporters without Borders (RSF) protested the closing of the channel without any warning and indicated to the Turkish authorities that this was a sign ...

Treatment of Journalist Prompts Outcry in France

Washington Post
November 29, 2008

Reporters without Borders, a media advocacy group, condemned what it called "coercive methods" and said they were a sign of "deterioration in press freedom ...

Person(s): Reda Abderrahman Ali, Mohammed Adel

IFEX
November 28, 2008

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called on the Egyptian authorities to reveal the charges against two bloggers who are being held at secret ...

Press freedom group condemns Iran for arrest of journalist

IranVNC
November 28, 2008

Washington, 28 November (IranVNC)-The press freedom watchdog, Reporters without Borders [RSF] yesterday denounced the recent arrest of Kurdish-Iranian ...

"Nothing has been done since I was assaulted"

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 28, 2008

Reporters without Borders interviewed him about the case. Reporters Without Borders : What happened to you on 20 October 2008 ? Makis Nodaros (MN) : It was ...

Reporters Without Borders appeals for calm after attacks on media ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 28, 2008

Reporters Without Borders today called on both sides in the unrest in Thailand to stop physical attacks on the media and urged journalists to resist the ...

Generacion Y Wins 2008 Best of the Blogs Award

Deutsche Welle
November 28, 2008

The 2008 Reporters Without Borders Prize was awarded by the jury to a pair of blogs. Zeng Jinyan, the wife of an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu ...

Journalist investigating drug trafficking gunned down in Bihar state

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by yesterday's murder of Vikas Ranjan, the Hindi-language daily Hindustan's correspondent in Samastipur district, ...

Grenades kill five in Somalia's seat of parliament

Reuters South Africa
November 27, 2008

... constant threat to foreigners -- journalists and humanitarian workers -- who go to Somalia," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement on Thursday. ...

Call for release of radio director in Baidoa

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters without Borders today voiced its shock at the arrest on 25 November of Hilal Sheik Shuayb, director of privately-owned Radio Warsan based in ...

Two foreign journalists kidnapped in Puntland

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters without Borders is very concerned about yesterday's abduction of two foreign journalists - a Briton and a Spaniard - in Bosasso, the business ...

One journalist held incommunicado, a second stabbed

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters without Borders condemns the arrest of Bahman Totonchi, a former contributor to the weekly Karfto, on 18 November in Sanandaj, the capital of the ...

Amid signs of tentative liberalisation, government urged to do ...

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters without Borders has learned that two independent newspapers that were dropped from official distribution networks for criticising the government ...

Mexican Government Tries to Pin New Charges on Juan Martinez in ...

The NarcoSphere
November 27, 2008

Will's family and friends, physicians for Human Rights, Reporters without Borders, and the Mexican government's own National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) ...

National. Journalist's aides freed in Afghanistan

Ottawa Citizen
November 27, 2008

... Canadian journalist hostage Mellissa Fung have been released from police custody, the CBC and media watchdog Reporters without Borders said yesterday. ...

EU: Conference on Afghan media and local organisations

آكي
November 27, 2008

He is the second journalist to be sentenced to death since the fall of the Taliban, according to media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. ...

Two bloggers being detained at secret locations

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters Without Borders today called on the Egyptian authorities to reveal the charges against two bloggers who are being held at secret locations in ...

Wall Street Journal Asia unjustly found in contempt of court and fined

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 27, 2008

Reporters without Borders condemns a Singapore high court ruling yesterday finding the Hong Kong-based Wall Street Journal Asia in contempt of court and ...

Political Essayist Gets Three Years in Prison For Three Articles ...

China Digital Times
November 27, 2008

"Chen Daojun is guilty only of expressing his views on Chinese politics," Reporters without Borders said. "He is the second cyber-dissident to be convicted ...

Rwanda: Media Conference Condemns Reporters Without Borders

AllAfrica.com
November 25, 2008

"These Reporters without Borders are not honest when it comes to African issues." Robert B. Mugimba, in charge of ICGLR, Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...

Australian writer formally indicted on lese-majeste charge

Reporters without borders (press release)
November 25, 2008

Reporters without Borders condemns Australian writer Harry Nicolaides' formal indictment on 21 November by a Bangkok criminal court on a charge of ...