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Burma – Government censors issue warnings to two opposition party newspapers
Information minister Kyaw Hsan promised more media freedom during a conference last week in Rangoon, but the Burmese authorities continue to keep the media on a short leash and still try to intimidate media they regard as too outspoken. Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, the Burma Media Association, condemn the warnings that have been issued by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), the government’s media oversight agency, in response to published content (…)
Haïti – Radio Boukman resumes broadcasting two weeks after director’s murder
Reporters Without Borders hails the courage and perseverance of the staff of Radio Boukman, who resumed broadcasting on 20 March, 15 days after its director-general, Jean Liphète Nelson, was gunned down, and who are determined to maintain his commitment to help the population of Cité Soleil, the Port-au-Prince district where the community radio is based. “The radio station’s programming has resumed and we are continuing to broadcast from our studios in Cité Soleil despite the many suggestions (…)
Sri Lanka – Government-orchestrated threats against exile journalists
Reporters Without Borders deplores a government-orchestrated campaign of threats and smears against journalists and human rights activists that is being waged above all through media controlled by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL), a state-owned company better known as “Lake House.” The targets include Rohitha Bashana Abeywardane of Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (LINK), a Reporters Without Borders partner organization, Dharmasiri Lankapeli of the Federation of Media (…)
India – National media prevented from covering anti-nuclear protest in Tamil Nadu
Reporters Without Borders condemns police obstruction of national print and broadcast media today in Idinthakarai, a fishing village in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where the authorities are trying to remove entrenched anti-nuclear protesters from their camp beside the Koodankulam nuclear power station. “It is always disturbing to see the authorities establish a perimeter and deny access to the media, even temporarily, for reasons other than their security,” Reporters Without Borders (…)
China – Prior censorship, legalized secret detention and increased Internet control
Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the prior censorship that the propaganda ministry imposed on domestic media coverage of the news conference that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao gave on 14 March, on the last day the annual National People’s Congress. The organization is also very worried by the introduction of a system for identifying bloggers (实名制), the increased cooperation by the companies Sina and Baidu in monitoring Internet users (described in a report in the official periodical (…)
Burma – Is government reneging on promise to respect media freedom?
Reporters Without Borders is worried by the mining ministry’s announcement that it plans to launch “legal proceedings” against the Rangoon-based weekly The Voice for reporting that cases of alleged corruption involving the mining ministry and five other ministries were revealed by the report of a government audit that was given to parliamentarians last week. The press freedom organization urges the mining ministry not to bring a libel suit against the weekly as it would send a negative signal (…)
