Posts Tagged ‘Une – Générale – 2’

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by last night's murder of Thomas Pere, a reporter for the state-owned New Vision media group in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. His body was found early this morning in an open field a few miles outside the city. “It is clear from the injuries to Pere's body and the way it was found that his death was not accidental, ... Full story

After several years of controversy and delays, Ecuador's Organic Law on Communication begins the final stage of approval by the National Assembly today. An international NGO that defends freedom of information, Reporters Without Borders contributed to the debate when the law's first draft was being discussed in 2010 and it would like to update its comments now. Reporters Without Borders has never questioned the principle ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the deteriorating security situation in Libya and the behaviour of certain militias towards media personnel. Journalists have repeatedly been attacked, threatened or kidnapped by militias in recent months. RWB urges the Libyan government to guarantee the safety of journalists and to control the behaviour of militias operating under the command of the defence or ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision on 1 June by the High Council for Freedom of Communication (CLSC), the Republic of Congo's media regulator, to suspend three independent Brazzaville-based newspapers – L'Observateur, Talassa and Le Trottoir – for four months for publishing “seditious articles.” A fourth, Le Glaive, has been suspended for two months. “The simultaneous suspension of four newspapers that are well-known for keeping ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The following is a joint appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs calling for an investigation to torture in Bahraini prisons. The appeal, signed by over 50 NGOs, was initiated by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights : 22 May 2013 Dear Special Rapporteurs Mendez, Sekaggya and La Rue, We the undersigned NGOs worldwide are ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that three employees of Dainik Ganadoot, a local Bengali-language daily based in Agartala, the capital of the northeastern state of Tripura, were stabbed to death at the newspaper's headquarters by two unidentified intruders on 19 May. “We are shocked and horrified by this targeted triple murder of news professionals and we call for immediate measures to protect the ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by a government decree, called Decision 20/2011/QD-TTG, which has prevented local retransmission of four categories of foreign TV channels since 15 May by requiring them to pay for simultaneous translation of all their programming into Vietnamese. Vietnam Satellite Digital Television Company (VSTV), a pay-TV operator launched by French broadcaster Canal+ and Vietnam's national TV broadcaster, suspended retransmission of 21 TV ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders provided funding for two round-table meetings that local journalists' groups organized for media personnel in the cities of Butembo and Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of Nord-Kivu, on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day. The subject for debate at the meetings was “Speaking without fear and guaranteeing press freedom in all the media.” The meetings also provided an ... Full story

Download PDF The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan's National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The amendments were submitted by the prosecutor-general's office to a parliamentary commission two weeks before and are being enacted in the run-up to October's Presidential election. The existing draconian penalties for criminal defamation and insult have been ... Full story

16.05.2013 - Update: Reporters Without Borders is relieved by the lifting of censorship on the Reyhanli bombings. On appeal, a court in the nearby city of Antakya yesterday quashed the publication ban that the Reyhanli magistrate's court issued within hours of the bombings on 11 May. Reporters Without Borders condemns the drastic restrictions that a magistrate's court in Reyhanli, a southern town on the Syrian ... Full story