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Censored, prosecuted and on terror list, filmmaker denied First Amendment rights
Washington, United States, February 7, 2012Filmmaker and environmentalist Josh Fox is to appear in court on 15 February on a charge of “unlawful entry” following his arrest in Congress on 1 February, when he was prevented from filming a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment on the grounds that he lacked press credentials.
2/7/12
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Government scraps plan to force journalists to inform police
Santiago, Chile, January 23, 2012Thanks to a wave of demonstrations and protests in Santiago the government has abandoned plans to force journalists to hand over images to police under controversial new legislation sponsored by interior minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, who announced on 18 January that he would withdraw that section of the bill.
1/25/12
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TV satellite operator usurps court’s prerogative to silence Kurdish TV station
Paris - France, Turkey, January 22, 2012Reporters Without Borders is stunned by Paris-based TV satellite operator Eutelsat’s decision yesterday to stop carrying the broadcasts of Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV station Roj TV on the grounds that a Danish court found it guilty of supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an armed separatist group regarded by Turkey as a terrorist organization.
1/25/12
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Media Council deals serious blow to broadcasting pluralism
Budapest, Hungary, January 22, 2012Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns yesterday’s decision by Hungary’s Media Council to strip Klubradio, the country’s only national opposition radio station, of its broadcast frequency within a couple of months.
1/22/12
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ActiveWatch - MMA and Reporters Without Borders condemn acts of violence during protests
Bucarest, Romania, January 22, 2012ActiveWatch – Media Monitoring Agency and Reporters without Borders condemn the acts of violence perpetrated against journalists by both policemen and protesters over the past four days. The two organizations also denounce basic human rights violations by the riot police, such as the right to free speech, the right to freedom of movement and the right to freedom of assembly
1/22/12
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Reporters Without Borders to close its English-language site for 24 hours in protest against SOPA and PIPA
Nueva York, United States, January 18, 2012In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 a.m. EST on 18 January, in protest against two online piracy bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which are currently working their way through the US Congress.
1/19/12
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Annual overview - The 10 most dangerous places for journalists in 2011
Paris, France, December 21, 20112011 in figures: 66 journalists killed (16% more than in 2010), 1,044 journalists arrested, 1,959 journalists physically attacked or threatened, 499 media censored, 71 journalists kidnapped, 73 journalists fled their country, 5 netizens killed, 199 bloggers and netizens arrested, 62 bloggers and netizens physically attacked, 68 countries subject to Internet censorship
12/22/11
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Reporter shot dead in Mogadishu is fourth journalist killed this year in Somalia
Mogadiscio, Somalia, December 20, 2011Reporters Without Borders expresses its deepest sympathy to the family and colleagues of the journalist Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, shot dead yesterday by a man in military uniform in the Hamar Jajab district of Mogadishu.
12/20/11
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Maikel Nabil Sanad’s two-year jail term “insults spirit of Egyptian revolution”
Cairo, Egypt, December 15, 2011Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the two-year jail sentence that the supreme military court of appeals in Cairo imposed today on Maikel Nabil Sanad, a blogger who has been held since March on a charge of insulting the military in a blog entry.
12/18/11
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Soldiers use clubs to disperse women journalists demonstrating outside presidential palace
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, December 14, 2011Reporters Without Borders condemns the violence used by police and soldiers to disperse yesterday’s demonstration by journalists – mostly women – outside the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa to demand justice for the 24 journalists killed since 2003, 17 of them since the June 2009 coup d’état. The latest journalist to be murdered, last week, was a woman.
12/14/11
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Journalist Lina Ibrahim freed
Damasco, Syria, November 27, 2011Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Lina Ibrahim, a journalist of pro-government newspaper Tishreen. The news was reported on Facebook by a support group that had called for her release ever since her abduction on 25 October in Damascus suburb of Harasta. It was confirmed by other sources that she had been held by the mukhabarat (intelligence services) in AlKhatib
11/27/11
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New libel law designed to muzzle the media
Tel Aviv, Israel, November 23, 2011Reporters Without Borders expresses its grave concern over parliament’s approval yesterday of the first reading of a bill toughening Israel’s libel laws, despite strong objections from Israeli journalists. The bill, provides for a steep rise in the amount of damages payable for articles judged to be defamatory.
11/23/11
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Journalists arrested and obstructed again during Occupy Wall Street camp eviction
New York, United States, November 16, 2011“Zuccotti Park is not Tiananmen Square,” said Scott Stringer, the Borough of Manhattan’s Democratic Party president, criticizing the way the New York police manhandled reporters and kept them at a distance as they evicted Occupy Wall Street protesters from their camp in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in the early hours of yesterday.
11/16/11
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Three news websites hacked, newspaper publisher bombed
Santiago, Chile, November 14, 2011Reporters Without Borders unreservedly condemns such acts of violence accompanied by incitement to hatred and violence, and hopes there will soon be results from the investigations into these incidents, which do not bode well for the free circulation of ideas and opinions. Article by Benoît Hervieu, form the Americas desk
11/14/11
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Leading suspect cleared of killing journalist, “clean-up” of police announced
RSF, Honduras, November 3, 2011Reporters Without Borders is astonished to learn that Marco Joel Álvarez Barahona, also known as El Unicornio” (The Unicorn), was acquitted by a court in the northern city of La Ceiba on 31 October of being the main perpetrator of last year’s murder of radio journalist David Meza Montesinos.
11/3/11
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Reporters arrested, roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests
New York, United States, October 25, 2011The often violent response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign that is growing in the United States and elsewhere is affecting the freedom to inform. Reporters Without Borders [campaigning for press freedom] condemns the arrests of reporters in recent weeks, especially in New York where the police assume the right to decide who are journalists.
10/25/11
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More media freedom violations feared in protests called for today and tomorrow
Santiago, Chile, October 19, 2011Reporters Without Borders shares the concern that the Chilean Union of Photographers and Cameramen has expressed about the possibility of more violence against media personnel by the security forces, especially the carabinero militarized police, during the large protests that are expected to take place today and tomorrow in response to calls from the student movement.
10/19/11
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More media freedom violations feared in protests called for today and tomorrow
Santiago, Chile, October 18, 2011Reporters Without Borders shares the concern that the Chilean Union of Photographers and Cameramen has expressed about the possibility of more violence against media personnel by the security forces, especially carabineros militarized police, during the protests that are expected to take place today and tomorrow in response to calls from the student movement.
10/18/11
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Reporters arrested, roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests
RSF, United States, October 14, 2011The often violent response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign that is growing in the United States and elsewhere is affecting the freedom to inform. Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of reporters in recent weeks, especially in New York where the police assume the right to decide who are journalists.
10/14/11
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Salta broadcaster repeatedly sabotaged, other attacks on radio stations
RSF, Argentina, October 13, 2011The broadcasts of TV and radio stations owned by Norte Visión Satelital, a media company based in the northern city of Salta, have been seriously disrupted by the deliberate destruction of an antenna by persons unknown on 3 October. Other regional broadcast media have been affected by this act of sabotage, the fourth against the company since the start of the year.
10/13/11
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