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 Broadcaster
slain in Legazpi City, Philippines
Source:
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
February 12, 2004
A RADIO broadcaster was murdered in Legazpi City, Albay Province, approximately
556 kilometers south of Manila on Wednesday (11 January). He was the 44th
journalist killed in the Philippines since 1986, when the Marcos dictatorship
ended and democracy was restored. (Continue)
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Army
Harassment Forces Aceh-Based Biweekly to Close
Source:
Reporters sans frontiere, Paris
December 12, 2003
(RSF/IFEX) -- RSF has condemned the Indonesian army's harassment
of the independent biweekly "Beudoh", in the troubled province of Aceh.
The newspaper was recently forced to suspend publication. (Continue)
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Burmese
Military Sentences Journalist to Death
Source:
Article 19
December 12, 2003
We condemn the death sentence imposed on Burmese magazine editor Zaw Thet
Htwe for allegedly committing high treason by plotting to murder senior
government figures. (Continue)
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Editor-in-chief
of Sports Magazine Sentenced to Death
Source:
Reporters sans frontier (RSF), Paris
December 3, 2003
RSF and the Burma Media Association (BMA) have voiced outrage over the
death sentences passed by a military court on 28 November 2003 against
sports journalist Zaw Thet Htway and eight other persons for allegedly
trying to kill members of Burma's military junta. (Continue)
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Abdullah
Ahmad: A Blow to Media Freedom?
Source: Statement by the Centre for Independent
Journalism
December 2, 2003
The sacking
of Abdullah Ahmad, former group editor-in-chief of the New Straits Times
Press has demonstrated once again the executive interference into the
country's media institution. However, it is not the sacking of a journalist.
(Continue)
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Armed
Men Raid Davao Radio Station
Source:
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Quezon City
November 28, 2003
(CMFR/IFEX) -- On 23 November 2003, armed men stormed Radyo Natin
(RN) radio station in Lupon town, Davao Oriental (123 kilometres from
Davao City, southern Philippines). The men beat up a staff member after
he refused to reveal the whereabouts of his boss and an anchor. (Continue)
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Journalist
Goenawan Mohamad's Residence and Newspaper Offices Seized by Court
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York
October 1, 2003
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the court ordered
seizure of the home of Goenawan Mohamad, the co-founder and senior editor
of Tempo magazine, and the offices of Koran Tempo, Tempo's sister publication.
Mohamad, a 1998 CPJ International Press Freedom Award recipient, and several
of his colleagues, are being sued for libel by businessman Tomy Winata.
(Continue)
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Killings
of Filipino journalists reaches crisis proportions
Source:
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)
September 20, 2003
THE KILLING of journalists in the Philippines, the Constitution of which
guarantees the protection of press freedom, has reached its most critical
level since 1987. (Continue)
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Cyber-Dissident
Gets Five-Year Prison Sentence
Source:
Reporters Sans Frontier
August 26 2003
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) protested today
at a five-year jail sentence imposed on Vietnamese cyberdissident Pham
Hong Son, who has already been in prison for more than a year and half.
(Continue)
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IFJ
Calls on Prime Minister to Relinquish Stake in ITV Television Network
Source: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Brussels
22 August 2003
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation
of journalists representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has written
today to Thailand's Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Thaksin Shinnawatra,
calling on his family company, Shin Corp, to relinquish its stake in television
network ITV and to introduce new rules to prevent conflicts of interest
over media ownership. (Continue)
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CPJ
Condemns Journalist's Murder in Philippines
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York
21 August 2003
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns this week's murder
of journalist Noel Villarante in Santa Cruz, a town in the Philippine's
central Laguna Province. (Continue)
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Newspaper
Editor Arrested After President's Lawyer Accuses Her of Libel
Source: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
August 7, 2003
(RSF/IFEX) -- In a 6 August 2003 letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,
RSF condemned the arrest of "The Daily Tribune" editor-in-chief Ninez
Cacho-Olivares. In May, the opposition newspaper had reported on corruption
allegations implicating the president's personal lawyer and some of her
associates. (Continue)
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Government
Urged to Give Police More Resources to Investigate Journalist Bonifacio
Gregorio's Murder
Source:
Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
August 6, 2003
(RSF/IFEX) -- On 31 July 2003, RSF called on Interior and Local
Government Secretary José D. Lina to make more resources available to
police investigating the 8 July murder of newspaper reporter and columnist
Bonifacio Gregorio, and to do everything possible to identify and punish
those who may have been behind the killing and the gunman who carried
it out. (Continue)
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IFJ
Protest at Jailing of Reporter and Calls for Indonesia to Assist Release
of
Captives in Aceh
Source:
international Federation of Journalists
August 1,2003
The International Federation of Journalists today stepped up efforts to
secure the urgent release of two journalists being held in Aceh by Indonesian
rebels and appealed to the Indonesian authorities to give assurances of
safe conduct when they are released. (Continue)
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CPJ
Calls on Government to Investigate Journalist's Murder
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
July 30, 2003
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent murder
of Bonifacio Gregorio, a reporter and columnist for the weekly Dyaryo
Banat, in La Paz, Tarlac Province. (Continue)
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Arson
Attack on Newspapers Truck Condemned
Source:
SEAPA Jakarta
July 24, 2003
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta condemns the arson
attack by unidentified armed men on Serambi Indonesia delivery
trucks in Indonesia’s war-torn province Aceh in two separate occasions
in mid July 2003. (Continue)
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Two
Sports Magazine Journalists Held by Military Police
Source: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
July 24, 2003
RSF and the Burma Media Association (BMA) voiced outrage at the 17 July
2003 arrest by military police at a Rangoon sports magazine of four journalists,
two of whom are still being held in an undisclosed location. The arrests
came after the magazine ran an article on a Burmese football team's absence
from an Asian tournament. (Continue)
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Call
on the Cambodian Government to Guarantee Freedom of Expression During
the Election
Source: ARTICLE 19, London
July 21, 2003
ARTICLE 19, Forum-Asia and ADHOC are concerned over the violations of
freedom of expression, in particular freedom of the media, that have occurred
preceding Cambodia's third national election, which will be held on 27
July 2003. (Continue)
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Youth
Magazine Suspended
Source: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
July 17, 2003
RSF has condemned a three-month ban on the weekly youth magazine "Sinh
Vien Vietnam". The magazine's cover recently featured naked human statuettes
and, last year, displayed a photo-montage of banknotes with an image of
late President Ho Chi Minh floating in a toilet bowl. (Continue)
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Reporter-Columnist
Killed by Unknown Assassin
Source: Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR),
Quezon City
July 17, 2003
A reporter-columnist for a tabloid in Tarlac province, central Philippines,
has become the third journalist to be killed in the country this year.(Continue)
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IPI
Condemns Laos’ Jail Terms for Foreign Journalists
Source: International Press Institute (IPI)
June 30, 2003
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors,
media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the sentencing
on 30 June of two European journalists, as well as an American pastor,
to jail terms of 15 years each for illegal weapon possession and obstructing
a state official. (Continue)
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IFJ
Condemns "Draconian and Unjust" 15-Year Jail Term For Journalists in Laos
Source:
IFJ
June 30, 2003
The International Federation of Journalists today condemned the authorities
in Laos over what it called "a draconian and unjust punishment" after
two European journalists and their American guide were sentenced to 15
years' imprisonment by a court in Vientiane.(Continue)
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RSF
Outraged Laos’ Jail Terms for Two European Journalists
June 30,
2003
PARIS -- Reporters Without Borders voiced shock and outrage at
the 15-year prison sentences passed by a Laotian court today on Belgian
reporter Thierry Falise and French cameraman Vincent Reynaud for "obstructing
the exercise of authority." (Continue)
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Court
Sentences Journalists and their Translator to 15 Years in Prison
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New
York
June 30, 2003
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged that two journalists
and their American translator were convicted today by a Laotian court
in Phonesavan, a town in the northeastern Xieng Khuang province. (Continue)
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CPJ
Calls for Journalists' Release
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York
**Updates IFEX alert of 10 June 2003**
June 12, 2003
(CPJ/IFEX) -- In an 11 June 2003 letter to Laotian President Khamtay
Siphandone, CPJ expressed deep concern about the safety of two European
journalists and their American guide who were arrested last week by Laotian
authorities: Thierry Falise, a Belgian free-lance photographer and reporter;
Vincent Reynaud, a French free-lance photographer and cameraman; and Naw
Karl Mua, a U.S. citizen of ethnic Hmong origin who was working with the
two journalists as a guide and translator. Falise and Reynaud are well-regarded,
professional journalists based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Continue)
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SEAPA
Protest Indonesian Government’s and Military’s Growing Press Censorship
on Aceh
June
3, 2003
BANGKOK -- Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Protests the
mounting and systematic efforts by Indonesian government and security
forces in Aceh to restrict press coverage of the fighting there. (Continue)
SEAPA
Jakarta Condemn Violence Against Journalists in the War on Iraq
April
11, 2003
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta condemns the
United States and its Coalition troops for deliberately firing at
journalists in Baghdad on April 8, 2003. There are at least nine
journalists killed throughout the war, while others were missing,
detained or wounded. (Continue)
SEAPA
Jakarta Protest Military’s Press Cenzorship on Aceh
May
26, 2003
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta condemns the
statement made by TNI's Military Emergency Authority in Aceh. (Continue)
SEAPA
Jarkata Protest Mob’s Raid on Tempo Magazine
March
10, 2003
Saturday, March 8 2003 was a dark day for press freedom in Indonesia,
and particularly the Tempo magazine, as thugs from the Artha Graha
Group (GAG) and Banteng Muda Indonesia (BMI) rallied outside the
magazine’s offices and assaulted its chief editor and journalists.
(Continue)
SEAPA
Jakarta Protest Attacks on Journalists in Aceh
May
24, 2003
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta condemns the
attacks on journalists and media offices in Aceh since the Indonesian
Armed Forces (TNI) declared war against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)
on May 19, 2003. SEAPA has recorded seven attacks so far in the
forms of shooting, terror, burning and kidnapping. (Continue)
Charter
2000-Aliran Condemns Mob Attack On Indonesian Newsmagazine
Source:
Aliran
March10, 2003
Charter 2000-Aliran, a Malaysian citizens' media initiative, condemns
the March 8 mob attack on the office of Tempo newsmagazine in central
Jakarta. (Continue)
SEAPA
Jakarta Protest Bundung Police’s Assails on Journalists
Source:
SEAPA Jakarta
February 27 2003
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta condemns the
brutal act by Bandung Police officers on one photographer and four
TV journalists in Bandung, West Java, on February 26 2003. The officers
assaulted, destroyed and confiscated the cameras of the journalists
in front of the West Java Parliament House in that afternoon. (Continue)
Hands
Off MALAYSIAKINI!
January
20,2003
Aliran strongly condemns the police raid on the malaysiakini
office this afternoon (Monday, 20 January 2003) which led to the
police’s removal of all nineteen (19) computers used by malaysiakini
journalists and personnel and three (3) servers. (Continue)
SEAPA
Alerts
January 20,2003
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), the Bangkok-based
regional press advocacy group, condemns the police raid on the office
of Malaysiakini, Malaysia’s independent Internet daily on
19 January 2003. (Continue)
TJA
Says Year 2002 was the Year of Media Co-optation
January 8, 2003
Thai Journalists Association (TJA) says the Year 2002 marks the
year of media co-optation when overall abuses against press freedom
declined as the government’s interference with the media become
more sophisticated and subtle. (Continue)
19
Journalists Killed for Their Work in 2002
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
January 3, 2003
A total of 19 journalists were killed worldwide for their work in
2002, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). This
number marks a sharp decrease from 2001 when 37 journalists were
killed, eight of them while covering the war in Afghanistan. Of
the 19 journalists killed in 2002, most were targeted in direct
reprisal for their work, and their killers had not been brought
to justice at year's end. (Continue)
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