2005-2014

Physical attacks against journalists have been the most common form of press freedom violations in Palestinian areas, according to a recent report. On many occasions, reporters and cameramen have been exposed to teargas and arrested. A report on press freedom in the Palestinian territories between January 1 and September 30 this year by the Palestine Partners Centre for Media Development has found

Egypt continues to imprison journalists and editors who publish stories critical of President Hosni Mubarak and other high officials. Activist advocating minority rights in the country are also detained and fined. Basic right of freedom of religion and fundamental right of free expression are being explicitly violated. Members and partners of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)

The ongoing violence in Sri Lanka is taking its toll on press freedom and freedom of expression. Journalists are directly in the line of fire; their safety and security have been compromised; some have even been forced to flee for their own safety. At the recent general meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) appealed to the government, the

Press freedom in Tunisia is going thorough one of its worst phases. There have been blatant attempt to silence subversive voices through censorship and intimidation. Judicial courts are appallingly used to infringe on the fundamental human right to freedom of expression, enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Tunisia has both signed and

Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy has said she is disappointed at today's High Court ruling ordering her and public affairs correspondent Colm Keena to appear before the Mahon tribunal. The court this morning ordered the two journalists to answer questions on the source of an article about financial payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 1993. The article was published on September 21st, 2006...

Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that Giovanni Alvarez, a community radio journalist who had criticised political corruption in the northern department of Atlántico, was forced to flee the country on 19 October after getting death threats. His departure brings the number of Colombian journalists who have fled their region or the country since the start of the year to four. “The forced...

Reporters Without Borders welcomes today’s decision by the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee to approve the proposed Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA). Drafted in February 2006 by Republican Representative of New Jersey, Christopher Smith, this bipartisan bill would prevent US Internet sector companies from collaborating with repressive governments. It will now go before the House...

New York, October 23, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today’s release of Khin Mar Lar, the wife of award-winning Burmese journalist and documentary filmmaker Thaung Tun (also known as Nyein Thit), who is still in hiding. Khin Mar Lar was detained on September 25, when security agents raided her home in the central city of Mandalay. “The news of Khin Mar Lar’s release is welcome...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) AMMAN - Government Spokesperson Nasser Judeh on Monday reiterated Jordan's "strong commitment" to increasing the level of press freedoms in the country in reference to an index on the state of press freedom around the world released last week by an international press watchdog. According to the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RWB) Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007...

NEW YORK As many papers have done in the past two years, the Los Angeles Times delivered breaking, and diverse, news about a major local story -- in this case, the California wildfires -- to millions of online readers in blog-like fashion, with brief dispatches from correspondents, added at the top. Many were in the human interest vein. A box near the top of the Web site's home page held changing...