Posts Tagged ‘Une – Asie – 1’

Shots fired by riot police using rubber bullets and teargas injured two reporters covering protests against fuel prize hikes on 17 June. Anton Nugroho of Jakarta-based Trans 7 TV, was hit in the left eye by a rubber bullet at a protest in the western province of Jambi. According to local press reports, Aroby Kilerley of Mata Public was hit by a teargas canister at ... Full story

A open letter to President Xi Jinping by Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, was posted by her lawyer on Twitter on 14 June, five days after her brother, Liu Hui, was sentenced to 11 years in jail in the latest evidence of the government's harassment of the families of dissidents. Liu Xia has been under house arrest since October ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders condemns the blogger Dinh Nhat Uy's arrest in the southern province of Long An on 15 June on a charge of posting photos and articles on his personal blog that “distort the truth and defame state organizations.” He is to be detained for three months while the authorities investigate his alleged “misuse of democratic freedoms to attack state interests.” Uy is the ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders hails yesterday's European Parliament resolution on the plight of Burma's Rohingya Muslims, who are not only persecuted by the authorities and denied Burmese citizenship, but also denied access to news and information and subjected to an information blackout. “We welcome the European Parliament's calls for journalists to be given unrestricted access to sensitive regions of Burma such as the western state of ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the way Chinese diplomatic personnel have harassed and threatened French journalist Cyril Payen, a reporter for the French TV news station France 24, since the station broadcast his documentary “Seven days in Tibet” on 30 May. A few days after it was broadcast, Chinese embassy personnel went to the TV channel's headquarters in Paris to demand the documentary's withdrawal ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the way Chinese diplomatic personnel have harassed and threatened French journalist Cyril Payen, a reporter for the French TV news station France 24, since the station broadcast his documentary “Seven days in Tibet” on 30 May. A few days after it was broadcast, Chinese embassy personnel went to the TV channel's headquarters in Paris to demand the documentary's withdrawal ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Du Bin, a Beijing-based documentary filmmaker and former New York Times photographer, has been held incommunicado since 31 May. A newly-completed a documentary by Du Bin about a labour camp for women in Masanjia, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, was released in Hong Kong on 1 May. Entitled “Above the Ghosts' Heads: The Women of Masanjia ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is releasing a copy of the “First Information Report” that police in Quetta, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, issued in response to a formal complaint on 15 May against seven newspapers for publishing a communiqué by the outlawed militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. “No one can dispute the right to file a complaint against a newspaper, but accusing a news outlet of providing ... Full story

Update : Abusive arrests Netizens arrested in connection with 4 June anniversary Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of netizens for trying to commemorate the anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989. “The government must put an immediate and permanent end to the censorship, blocking of access to information and harassment that occurs every year in ... Full story

A Bangkok criminal court investigating Italian freelance journalist Fabio Polenghi's death during clashes between security forces and “Red Shirt” demonstrators in Bangkok on 19 May 2010 ruled yesterday that a soldier fired the bullet that caused his death. After talking to Polenghi's sister, Elisabetta Polenghi, Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities not to pardon those responsible for the fatal shot. “We take note of the ... Full story