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BBC condemns 'harassment' of Persian TV journalists
BBC calls on government to put pressure on Iranian authorities to stop 'campaign of intimidation, persistent censorship and a disturbing abuse of power' against journalists at BBC Persian TV service
Posted by Paul McNally on 06/02/12Press freedom index: 'Media paid dearly' for coverage of uprisings
Eritrea, Turkmenistan and North Korea stay at the bottom of the annual press freedom index, while Syria, Bahrain and Yemen receive their 'worst ever rankings'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/01/12Pakistan: press freedom groups criticise report on journalist's murder
Pakistan government commission report into murder of Saleem Shahzad recognises suspicion against country's security services but concludes that there is no evidence to single out any culprits
Posted by Joel Gunter on 16/01/12Amid protests, Hungary faces US pressure over media regulation
As thousands take to streets in Budapest to protest changes to constitution, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton voices concerns over closure of radio station in personal letter to Hungarian prime minister
Posted by Joel Gunter on 03/01/12'Scared' governments pressured Al Jazeera, says former director
Wadah Khanfar tells the Global Editors Network summit governments across the Arab world feared of 'ramifications' in their own countries after Egypt's uprising reached the media
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28/11/11Syrian cameraman 'mutilated and killed following arrest'
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Ferzat Jarban was arrested while covering anti-government protests in Homs and found dead, with his eyes gouged out, the next day
Posted by Joel Gunter on 22/11/11Hungary media law having 'chilling effect' on press freedom
A mission of press freedom organisations to the country has warned that Hungary's controversial media law risks undermining both domestic and wider European press freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 18/11/11Dying for the truth: drug cartels target journalists in Mexico
Mexico is now considered to be the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere for journalists
Posted by Helena Hyvönen on 03/11/11IWMF honours four women for courageous journalism
A news magazine columnist in Mexico, Reuters bureau chief in Iran, and director of an online newspaper in Thailand have been recognised alongside Kate Adie for their courage
Posted by Joel Gunter on 25/10/11Tajik BBC reporter found guilty on extremism charge
Urunboy Usmonov, who has worked for the BBC Central Asian service for the past decade, was sentenced to three years in prison but released after being granted amnesty
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14/10/11WEF calls for pressure on Eritrea to release journalists
Erik Bjerager renews calls for the release of all journalists detained in Eritrea, as he presents the 2011 Golden Pen of Press Freedom to the brother of Dawit Isaak
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13/10/11Reporters Without Borders to open Tunisia bureau
Press freedom group is opening the bureau in a bid to raise awareness among Tunisian authorities of violations of media freedom
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 12/10/11'Tenacious' journalists win press freedom awards
The Committee to Protect Journalists has announced four winners of the International Press Freedom Awards for 2011, from Bahrain, Belarus, Mexico and Pakistan
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/10/11Free speech groups call for release of Vietnamese blogger
Organisations including Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists write to the Vietnamese prime minister calling for the release of Pham Minh Hoang
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 04/10/11Kurdish protesters demonstrate at Guardian offices
Guardian reports a group of demonstrators made it past security at the Guardian's Kings Place offices to protest against the lack of media coverage of the Kurdish plight
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30/09/11Al Jazeera hits back at Israel over alleged ties to Hamas
Qatar-based network has responded to the conviction of its Kabul bureau chief in Israel, denying that he has ties to Palestinian militant group Hamas
Posted by Joel Gunter on 28/09/11Labour criticised over call for journalists to be 'struck off'
Shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis criticised after suggesting in party conference speech today that journalists guilty of 'gross malpractice' should be 'struck off'
Posted by Joel Gunter on 27/09/11Israel releases Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist
Network's Kabul bureau chief Samer Allawi has been released after six-week detention. Allawi has reportedly confessed to links with Palestinian militant group Hamas
Posted by Joel Gunter on 27/09/11Filmmakers detained in Iran were not staffers, says BBC
BBC confirms that six filmmakers detained in Iran were not members of staff, contrary to State TV reports, but that the BBC Persian channel had bought the rights to their films
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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'
WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms
Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's
The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011Index: Take action to end impunity
This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated
The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim
Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]
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European Court of Human Rights 'recognises essential role played by press' with two landmark rulings in favour of free speech
Posted by Paul McNally on 10/02/12