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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...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders issued an urgent appeal to the international community for energetic measures towards the Somali government on behalf of the country's journalists after the murder in Mogadishu of Bashir Nur Gedi, the head of the Shabelle press group on 19 October 2007. Gedi is the eighth journalist to be slain this year in Somalia and the third leading media owner to be...

New York, October 19, 2007 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is saddened that ARY One World TV cameraman Muhammad Arif was among the more than 130 people killed in the Thursday bombing in Karachi, according to the official Associated Press of Pakistan. We send our condolences to his wife and six children. Several others were injured in the twin blasts, which took place during a political...

Reporters Without Borders issued an urgent appeal today to the international community for energetic measures towards the Somali government on behalf of the country’s journalists after yesterday’s murder in Mogadishu of Bashir Nur Gedi, the head of the Shabelle press group. Gedi is the eighth journalist to be slain this year in Somalia and the third leading media owner to be killed by unidentified...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unknown attackers shot dead the acting head of an independent radio station at his home on Friday in the latest attack on a journalist in the Somali capital, the victim's employer said. The killing of Bashir Nur Gedi brings to eight the number of journalists murdered this year in the Horn of Africa country, where reporters routinely face harassment, imprisonment and mortal...

(FLIP/IFEX) - On 11 October 2007, a group of students from Santa Marta University, protesting a court ruling against the university's former rector, attacked the offices of the newspaper "Hoy Diario del Magdalena". They stoned the building and wrote denunciatory graffiti on its walls. Later, the editor of the newspaper, Ulilo Acevedo Silva, received a new death threat. The students marched on the...

(NUSOJ/IFEX) - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is deeply shocked by the ssassination of a media executive of a prominent and popular radio station in Mogadishu. Bashir Nor Gedi, Acting Chairperson and the vice chairperson of Shabelle Media Network, was assassinated at his home in the Wardhigley district of Hamarjadid neighbourhood, on 19 October 2007, by unknown gunmen, according...

(BIANET/IFEX) - Despite pressure from the EU and human rights activists internationally and domestically, the prosecution of journalists, writers and activists under the infamous Article 301 continues. Before the Progress Report of the European Union, EU authorities had called for the abolition of Article 301, and Turkish government officials had signaled that changes were on the way. However...