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• Uganda: Stop Harassing the Media

  
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  Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The Ugandan government should immediately end politically motivated police intimidation of newspapers and radio stations and ensure that the media can operate freely. (Nairobi) – The Ugandan government should ...
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• Caixin Suspends Legal Section Under Pressure from Censors

  
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  Under censorship pressure,  Caixin’s flagship financial and business publication  Century Weekly  recently  merged its legal-affairs-related reports into other sections of the magazine earlier this month. From South China Morning Post : An insider from the magazine, who spoke on condition of ...
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• Support Fox News Washington Correspondent, James Rosen and Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  
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  Is prior restraint from the Obama administration just around the corner, are intimidation and persecution enough? Zealous, careerist-minded US DoJ attorneys and the mindless continuation of the worst aspects of the War on Terror may bring down the legacy of another president, just as surely as the Vietnam War ...
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• Ukraine rally after journalists are beaten

  
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  Dozens of Ukrainian journalists have been staging a rally today outside the interior ministry in Kiev after the police initially refused to investigate the beating of two journalists. Olha Snitsarchuk, a journalist with the Channel 5 television channel and her husband Vladislav Sodel, a photographer with the ...
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• Algerian editor complains of censorship

  
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  Algerian editor Hicham Aboud has accused the countrys government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers - My Journal and Djaridati. He said the ban was imposed after he rejected an order from the communication ministry on Saturday night to remove an article that claimed the president, ...
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• In Mexico drug gangs target local journalists

  
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  The former journalist asks not to use his real name. So I will call him Francisco. He had been at the height of his career in 2007, in the vibrant city of Torreon, in northern Mexico, when he received a call from an unknown man, Ana Arana reports . The man said he wanted to drink “lemonade” with him, slang ...
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• Two sons of opposition figure and activist arrested

  
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  Ethiopian security forces arrested two sons of prominent opposition figure and internet activist Assegid Gebre Selassie in the northern town of Mekele, hauling them off to a remote location without showing a warrant, he told local magazine. “My two sons are incarcerated at different prisons, one at illegal solitary ...
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• New York Times Pakistan bureau chief expelled on eve of countrys election

  
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  Veteran Pakistan correspondent Declan Walsh received order to leave country at midnight local time for undesirable activities The New York Times Pakistan bureau chief has been expelled from the country, on the eve of the national election. The paper said Pakistans Interior Ministry had not explained why it ...
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• Press Freedom, Other Topics Off Limits for Academics

  
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  The South China Morning Post reports on a directive allegedly being distributed to universities outlining seven topics professors are not permitted to discuss in class : Wang Jiangsong, a philosophy professor at the China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing , said that on Tuesday he had seen the ...
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• 5 Facts: Press Freedom

  
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  World Press Freedom Day was observed last Friday, May 3, under the theme ‘Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in all Media.’ This Fact Friday, we share some more related information: May 3, 2013 marked the 20th anniversary of World … Read more ›
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• After the inquiry and the report comes Leveson the exhibition...

  
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  I doubt that Lord Justice Leveson, or any of us for that matter, imagined at its July 2011 inception that his eponymous inquiry into the ethics and practices of the press would have quite such an impact. No day passes, it seems, without some mention somewhere of "Leveson", and often - given that the majority of ...
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• Dual ‘Salafist jihadist’ threat to Tunisia’s transition

  
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    Tunisia’s major parties may have ended a months-old stalemate by negotiating a provisional agreement on the country’s future constitution, but the country’s democratic transition faces an overlapping threat from violent jihadists and ultra-conservative Salafists, say analysts.   “We have ...
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• Human Rights Ads (86): Putin Wishes You a Happy Press Freedom Day

  
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  ( source ) Actually, he’s a few days late: May 3rd is the official press freedom day. More on Putin . More human rights ads .
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• “I want my country back”

  
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  A young woman from Eritrea describes how her country’s joy of independence was smothered by a political stranglehold that is still keeping thousands of people locked up. “We are moving back to our home country, it’s a beautiful place – … Continue reading →
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• Arrests - is it possible to publish names without mud sticking?

  
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  My column in todays London Evening Standard concerns the difficulty of drawing a line between privacy and the right to know when reporting arrests. It was inspired by the revelation that there had been a 12-day gap between Jimmy Tarbuck being arrested by North Yorkshire police and that fact being reported. Of all ...
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• Saradha Group scandal exposes ties between India’s media, politicians

  
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  The discovery of a financial scam at a company in India’s West Bengal state is shining a light on the relationship between politicians and media owners, Mahima Kaul reports. The firm in question, Saradha Group, had risen to become a financial empire over the past eight years under boss and owner Sudipta Sen. The ...
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• Repression Worsening as Putin Returns Russia to Dark Period in its History

  
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  (Photo Credit: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images). In collaboration with special guest Svetlana Reiter, a Russian journalist who has been reporting on the demonstrations. A year ago, on the eve of President Putin’s inauguration, the world watched demonstrators prepare to rally in Bolotnaya Square and wondered if ...
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• King George had his own State Controlled Media too…. “Generally speaking, the role of journalism and the press in support of tyrants historically has been woefully under-explored.”

  
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  King George had his own State Controlled Media too PGA Weblog ^ Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 11:23:59 AM by ProgressingAmerica On the website for McGraw-Hill, there is an interesting poll question available for now: #1: Fearing the power of an unrestricted printing press during 1476-1776, the British Crown: A) ...
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• Saudi columnist claims he is banned

  
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  A Saudi journalist says he has been banned from writing in a Saudi newspaper after criticising the countrys interior minister, reports the Associated Press. Ali al-Elayan tweeted that the daily paper, Al-Watan, stopped him from writing after publishing his last column, which urged interior minister Prince Mohammed ...
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• Iranian website editor arrested

  
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  The editor of an Iranian news website, Ali Ghazali, was arrested on Sunday after carrying a report claiming that a tape recording existed of the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, discussing vote rigging in the disputed 2009 election. Ahmadinejads office has strongly denied the report that appeared on the Baztab website ...
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