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(SEAPA/IFEX) - East Timor's Land and Property Department has ordered the country's major and oldest local daily, "Suara Timor Lorosae", to leave its present premises in the capital of Dili within 60 days. Local media outlets believe that the move is in retaliation for the newspaper's constant criticism of the government. (Continue) |
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Political uncertainty in Cambodia, underscored by recent developments stripping three leading oppositionists of parliamentary immunity, is creating anxiety among the country’s journalists and giving rise to a troubling trend for self-censorship. (Continue) |
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(SEAPA/IFEX) - On the morning of 14 February 2005, Kiat Saetang, managing editor of the bi-monthly newspaper "Had Yai Post", was shot dead near a central market in the bustling town of Had Yai, in Thailand's southern province of Songkhla. (Continue) |
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A newspaper publisher in southern Thailand received a veiled threat from an influential politician after he submitted himself to an official inquiry into an alleged vote-buying violation by a senior member of the ruling Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party. (Continue) |
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SOURCE: Alliance of
Independent Journalists (AJI), Jakarta |
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Ko Sein Ohn released after more than eight years in prisonSOURCE: Reporters sans fronti?res (RSF), Paris 30 November 2004 Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today hailed the release of Ko Sein Ohn after eight years and two months in prison but regretted that he is the only one of Burma's 13 imprisoned journalists to have been freed despite the military junta's promises and the release of thousands of prisoners. The authorities say the wave of releases is over. (Continue) |
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Radio-Thailand 25 November 2004 Media experts wary
of government agency's offer to allow community radio stations to earn
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Immediate Release SEAPA expresses concern over new Indonesian restrictions on journalists, aid workers in Aceh The Southeast Asian Press Alliance, a leading advocate for press freedom and greater access to information in Southeast Asia, is dismayed and perplexed by Jakarta’s stated intent to restrict the movement of aid workers and journalists in Aceh. (Continue) |
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alarmed by government attempts to intimidate the media in the wake of violence
in southern Thailand SEAPA is alarmed by reports that the Thai government is putting pressure on the country's media in line with efforts to control and sanitise news and information about violence in the province of Narathiwat, southern Thailand. (Continue) |
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the Killings! The following statement was issued at the 11th General Meeting of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) in Baku, Azerbaijan, 13-18 June 2004: (Continue) |
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- News from the international freedom of expression community Media ban at People's Forum "bodes ill" for Asia-Europe meeting in Hanoi, say SEAPA (SEAPA/IFEX) - SEAPA has condemned government actions that severely limited media coverage of the fifth Asia-Europe People's Forum, held in Hanoi from 6 to 9 September 2004. (Continue) |
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Protest Statement on Libel Suits against Journalists of Tempo Magazine 16 August 2004 The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)-an alliance of free press advocates across the region-is gravely troubled by the Indonesian government's seeming indifference to international calls demanding the reform of Indonesia's Criminal Defamation laws. (Continue) |
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journalist suspended (SEAPA/IFEX) - A radio journalist has been suspended from an army radio station morning news programme in a move believed to have stemmed from his comments on sensitive political issues.. (Continue) |
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selection process for independent broadcast regulator criticised (SEAPA/IFEX) - Thai independent media advocates have decried a controversial decision by a national selection committee to call for a new selection round for membership in the country's first independent broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), based on a previous controversial list of candidates.. (Continue) |
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Letter Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and its Cambodian partner Cambodian Association for Protection of Journalists (CAPJ) protest in a strongest term an arrest and detention of two journalists in Northeast Cambodia by Cambodian authorities on Sunday 25 July 2004. (Continue) |
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Journalist Killed in the Philippines in Five Days A CORRESPONDENT of radio station DZRH and the Manila-based tabloid "Bulgar" was killed in an ambush in Bauan, Batangas province, about 80 kilometers south of Manila on Thursday (August 5). He was the second journalist killed in the Philippines in just five days, the fourth so far this year, and the 47th since 1986. (Continue) |
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documentary filmmaker arrested for filming flooding disaster in northern
Burma Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Bangkok (SEAPA/IFEX) - SEAPA has learned that on 27 July 2004, Military Intelligence agents arrested Lazing La Htoi, a local documentary filmmaker, for having filmed a flooding disaster in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state (northern Burma). They were attempting to block public access to information about the incident. (Continue) |
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broadcaster killed Source: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Quezon City (CMFR/IFEX) - Roger Mariano, a broadcaster with DZJC-Aksyon Radio in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte province, northern Philippines, was shot and killed by unknown assailants on 31 July 2004 at around 8:00 p.m. (local time). Mariano is the third journalist to be killed in the Philippines this year and the 46th since the country's return to democracy in1986. (Continue) |
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journalists detained, released two days later Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Bangkok SEAPA and its partner, the Cambodian Association for Protection of Journalists (CAPJ), protest in the strongest terms the arrest and detention of two journalists by authorities in northeast Cambodia on 25 July 2004. (Continue) |
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Intelligence cracks down on distribution of politically-sensitive songs; band members and concert organisers arrested Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Bangkok Burma's Military Intelligence (MI) has renewed a nation-wide crackdown on politically-sensitive music. According to Mizzima News agency sources, the latest target is a newly-released CD containing songs by an exiled Burmese contemporary hip hop band, Myanmar Future Generation (MFG). (Continue) |
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journalist released from Malaysian prison Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Bangkok 23 June 2004 Thai Criminal Court Decision to Accept Libel Suit Alarming The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is alarmed by the decision of a criminal court in Thailand to accept a libel suit filed by a Thai telecommunications conglomerate, owned by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family, against media reform campaigner Supinya Klangnarong, a local newspaper and three of its editors. (Continue) |
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alarmed by criminal court's decision to accept libel suit Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Bangkok On 24 June 2004, Burmese journalist Sein Mar was released from a Malaysian prison into the custody of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), according to the Center for Independent Journalists (CIJ) in Malaysia. (Continue) |
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alarmed by criminal court's decision to accept libel suit Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Bangkok The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is alarmed by the decision of a criminal court in Thailand to accept a libel suit filed by a Thai telecommunications conglomerate, owned by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family, against media reform campaigner Supinya Klangnarong, a local newspaper and three of its editors for a story alleging that the company was benefitting under Thaksin's tenure. (Continue) |
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broadcaster survives assassination attempt Source: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Quezon City A radio commentator in Cebu City (approximately 587 kilometres south of Manila) survived an attempt on his life on the afternoon of 8 June 2004, as he was about to leave the station where he works. (Continue) |
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Calls on Berlusconi-style Thai Government To End "Vendetta" Against
Media Campaigners The International Federation of Journalists said that developments in Thailand, where a media campaigner faces ruin in a Government court action, mirror the media crisis in Italy where politics and media ownership mix at the highest level. (Continue) |
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Criminal Court Decision to Accept Libel Suit Alarming Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is alarmed by the decision of a criminal court in Thailand to accept a libel suit filed by a Thai telecommunications conglomerate owned by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family against media reform campaigner Supinya Klangnarong, a local newspaper and three of its editors for a story alleging that the company was benefitting under Thaksin's tenure. (Continue) |
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APPEAL TO RELEASE JAILED BURMESE JOURNALIST We call on the Malaysian government to release Burmese journalist Sein Mar. She is being held in a Malaysian jail after being arrested at a demonstration outside the Myanmar Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on 17 May 2004. Sein Mar, editor of the newsletter Yaung Chee Oo, has been denied bail twice by the Malaysian courts and is being detained without having been charged. She has been given UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) refugee status. (Continue) |
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