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Armenia has refused to allow four reporters with the Finnish public broadcaster YLE to enter the country, according to New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On Thursday, immigration authorities at the Zvartnots International Airport in the capital, Yerevan, refused to issue visas to the four reporters, and forced them to leave the country, according to local...

Angola's ruling MPLA government must allow the press to freely cover public events, the Committee to Protect Journalists demanded Wednesday after a number of recent incidents in which authorities barred journalists from covering public events related to the country's opposition party. On Tuesday, police officers and clerks at Angola's National Assembly arbitrarily denied reporters access to a...

Brazilian reporter Andrei Netto of the O Estado de São Paulo newspaper has been released after being held for eight days, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “We share the joy and relief of Netto’s family and friends, but the situation of journalists in Libya continues to be very worrying,” RSF said. “Foreign journalists who enter the country without...

A reporter has been sentenced to a year in prison in Angola and several media and journalists have been threatened, roughed up or censored in the past two weeks, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “It is a disgrace for Angola that a journalist has been given a jail sentence for an alleged case of defamation that has not been proved,” RSF said. “We call...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has deplored the decision by the police in the Republic of the Maldives to summon two journalists for interrogation after their newspaper carried news of a pornographic video racket operating in parts of the country. Ahmed Hamdhoon and Ismail Naseer, who researched and wrote the story in the Dhivehi-language edition of the daily Haveeru, were...

The group of nine newspapers supporting Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised President of Cote d'Ivoire, began an indefinite suspension of their publications on March 1 to protest against constant harassment and intimidation by pro-Gbagbo forces. The Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) correspondent reported that what prompted the action of the newspapers was the suspension of...

There has been a wave of searches and arrests of investigative journalists in Istanbul and Ankara in connection with a probe into an alleged anti-government plot. Journalists who have helped to shed light on this case are being made to pay for the tension between the government and the secularist and ultra-nationalist opposition, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans...

Journalist Natallya Radzina has alleged that that KGB officers had subjected her to psychological pressure and attempted to recruit her as an informant while she was in the KGB detention center in Minsk, according to naviny.by. At a news conference held on Monday, presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich, who was released from the jail on his own recognisance on February 19, three weeks later than...

The police in Bulgaria recently confiscated copies of news bulletin Macedonia Voice, according to delayed reports received by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) . According to reports in the local press, and a statement issued by United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) based in Washington, D.C., officers of the State Agency for National Security (DANS) entered the Iranik-M printing house...

The worsening situation of the Tajik media has been detailed by the National Association of Independent Mass Media in Tajikistan (NANSMIT) in a report of its press freedom monitoring in 2010. Independent media and journalists have been subjected to constant pressure for more than six months and ten media prosecutions are currently under way. NANSMIT said in its report that it registered 58 cases...