Source: wired.com
From the page: -- A media watchdog group protested the conviction of an Italian blogger for defamation, warning Friday that such a verdict could lead to censorship of blogs in Italy. --
Source: upi.com
The year 2005 was the deadliest in a decade for global media, according to a new report by Reporters Without Borders.
Source: rsf.org
The authorities have freed five of the seven students from Pegu university (north of Rangoon) who were arrested on 29 March for publishing a pro-democracy poem, Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association noted today. They were released on 10 April.
Source: rsf.org
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the murder of Koussai Kahdban, an Iraqi journalist with local radio station Al-Bilad, who was shot by gunmen on 22 April in Baghdad.
Source: rsf.org
The Hong Kong-based China correspondent of the Singapore-based Straits Times newspaper, Ching Cheong faces a possible death sentence on a charge of spying although the Chinese authorities have produced no evidence against him.
Source: rsf.org
The Independent’s general manager, Madi Ceesay, and its editor, Musa Saidykhan, were released this afternoon on bail after being illegally detained for more than three weeks. They will have to report to the police every day. Meanwhile, Lamin M.
Source: rsf.org
Reporters Without Borders today hailed the release on 11 April of CBS cameraman Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein, who had been held by the US military for a year at Camp Bucca detention centre and Abu Ghraib prison.
Source: rsf.org
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the detention of Rabah Al-Quwai, who writes for the Saudi daily newspapers Okaz and Chams and the Arabic-language websites Dar el-Nadwa and Gasad al-Thaqafa.
Source: rsf.org
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about detained Sudanese cameraman Sami Al-Haj of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera and reiterated its call for his release in the absence of specific charges after speaking to his London-based lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith.
Source: news.com.com
Reporters Without Borders challenges Yahoo execs at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters on Monday. The issue: data Yahoo released to police in China.
Source: rsf.org
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Source: ifex.org
The supplement "Bing Dian" ("Freezing Point") of the daily "Zhongguo Qingnian Bao" ("China Youth Daily") has been allowed to reappear after the sacking of its main editor and at least one investigative journalist.