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The Jordanian Media Commission blocked the news website 7iber.org on Monday, just one year after blocking the outlet’s original domain, 7iber.com. The original domain was blocked in June 2013 on the basis of the country’s Press and Publication Law (2012), which requires websites to obtain licences from the statutory Media Commission in order to publish. The law also states that editors-in...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association are concerned about reports that the Hong Kong Police are preparing to arrest journalists at the annual July 1 street rally organised by the Civil Human Rights Front. Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily reported on June 29 that leaked information says police will act if the media is â...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reiterated its appeal for Iranian authorities to respect the rights and freedom of media workers following the latest media freedom violations in the country. Mashaallah Shamsalwaezen, the vice president of IFJ’s affiliate the Association of Iranian Journalists (AoIJ), has endured a series of government attempts to undermine his rights in...

Gambian police should stop harassing a journalist over a story highlighting human trafficking in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. Sanna Camara, a journalist with The Standard, was Tuesday summoned to police headquarters in the capital Banjul over a June 27 story titled "Police admit 'problems' with human trafficking," Camara told CPJ. The story was based on an...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today urged authorities in Ukraine to investigate an incident in which a Russian cameraman was shot dead in the city of Donetsk. Media reports said that Anatoly Klyan who worked for the Russian public television, Channel One, was fatally wounded in the stomach when the convoy he was travelling in came under fire reportedly from Ukrainian forces...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the killing Sunday in the Donetsk region of Anatoly Klyan, a cameraman with the Russian state-owned broadcaster Pervy Kanal (Channel One). Klyan, 68, died at a local hospital where he was treated for a gun wound to his abdomen, local and international press reported. Klyan, a Russian citizen, is the sixth journalist or media worker killed in...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have welcomed an agreement reached by representatives of their Ukrainian and Russian journalists’ unions to co-operate on steps to increase journalists’ safety and professionalism in Ukraine as they met again last Friday, 27 June, in Vienna. The meeting was hosted by the OSCE Representative on...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about reports of increasing control by the Thailand Military Junta over news and information on radio, television, printed and online media that is sent abroad and the implications this has for freedom of expression in the country. The Thai military junta has set-up five inter-agency subcommittees to inform the media and the...

The International Press Institute (IPI) Friday called on the Somali government to investigate the death of award-winning radio journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar, who was killed by a car bomb on Saturday. The 27-year-old reporter was driving through Mogadishu when a bomb planted underneath the front seat of his car exploded at 7:40 a.m., according to local reports. Abukar worked for Mustaqbal radio...

The International Press Institute (IPI) was saddened Friday to learn of the death of Radio Be Oko journalist Elisabeth Blanche Olofio in the Central African Republic, who succumbed to injuries she reportedly suffered in January 2013. According to the Community Radio Association (ARC), Seleka rebels attacked and destroyed Olofio’s home on January 4, 2013 in response to her “sharp tongue.”...