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Syria – List of detained bloggers and journalists gets longer amid pro-regime rallies
Reporters Without Borders is worried about Hossein Ghoureir, a blogger who has been reported missing by his colleagues and who has probably been arrested. Aged 30 and the father of two children, he has organized and participated in many Palestinian solidarity campaigns. In his blog, he condemned the war in Lebanon in 2006 and campaigned against Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights. Sounding the alarm about Ghoureir’s “disappearance,” online activists have called on the Syrian authorities (…)
Election campaign brings return of prior censorship
Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the desire being expressed by Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentarians to assert their control over the media and, in particular, by the impact of a law banning direct retransmission of all foreign TV stations in the run-up to the 30 October presidential election. “A series of repressive measures are dashing hopes that Kyrgyzstan would be the post-Soviet world’s first parliamentary democracy,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The latest measure, more (…)
UN envoy arrives in Iraq to help country in transition to stability and prosperity
The newly arrived United Nations envoy to Iraq has begun meeting with senior officials from the country''s Government to discuss how the world body can help the Middle East nation rebuild and become more prosperous and stable.
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Iraq, Operazione militare turco-iraniana
L’esercito turco e quello iraniano stanno eseguendo un’operazione nel nord dell’Iraq alla ricerca di terroristi curdi. In Iran il 14 per cento della popolazione è curda; in Turchia i ribelli del Pkk hanno intensificato negli ultimi mesi i loro attacchi, uccidendo decine di guardie di sicurezza e dieci civili, tra cui tre nell’esplosione della bomba ad [...]
Sinai, Gasdotto parzialmente distrutto da esplosione
Un’esplosione ha distrutto una parte del gasdotto che serve Israele e la Giordania. Secondo fonti, uomini armati a bordo di una camionetta ha attaccato l’impianto nei pressi della città di al-Arish, nel Sinai ferendo una persona. L’esercito ha circondato l’area e il passaggio del gas è stato immediatamente sospeso. L’ultimo incidente è stato registrato a [...]
Turkey – Alarm over premature closure of prosecution case in Dink murder trial
Reporters Without Borders shares the view of the family of the murdered newspaper editor Hrant Dink that it is premature for the prosecution to conclude its case in the trial of his accused murderers. Dink’s family and its lawyers walked out of the Istanbul courtroom in protest when prosecutor Hikmet Usta began reading his 86-page summing-up during the 20th hearing on 19 September. “We have always said that the slowness with which this trial was proceeding was unbearable, but hastily (…)
Islam, Sistema Bancario: come funziona
I sostenitori dell’antica pratica, basata sulla guida della sharia che proibisce gli interessi e fare affari coi debiti, stanno promuovendo la finanza islamica come cura contro il collasso finanziario globale. “Il principio teologico dietro il sistema bancario islamico è una legge sacra che dichiara che l’accumulo di interessi è una forma di usura, la quale [...]
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Turkey – Court acquits online newspaper editor for second time
A court in the Istanbul suburb of Kadiköy acquitted Baris Yarkadas, the editor of the online newspaper Gercek Gündem (Real Agenda), on 15 September of defaming Nur Birgen, the head of the Institute for Forensic Medicine’s expertise section. Yarkadas had been facing a possible 30-month jail sentence. Birgen has a week to decide whether she wants to appeal. The same court acquited Yarkadas on 9 June 2010 of insulting President Abdullah Gül by failing to remove a message critical of Gül posted (…)
Afghanista, Attentato: muore ex presidente afghano, Burhanuddin Rabbani
L’ex presidente afghano, Burhanuddin Rabbani, è rimasto ucciso in un attentato nella sua abitazione a Kabul. L’attentato è costato la vita anche ad altre quattro persone, tra cui i due talebani e il segretario del Consiglio per la pace, Masoom Stanikzai. Rabbani, presiedeva l’Alto Consiglio per la pace (Hcp), creato nell’ottobre 2010 dall’attuale presidente afghano [...]
Regime continues to wage its war against foreign media
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government’s targeting of the BBC’s Farsi-language TV station, BBC Persian. Its satellite signal was jammed on 16 September when it broadcast a documentary about the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The next day, pro-government media announced the arrest of several of the station’s “collaborators” in Iran. Culture and Islamic guidance minister Seyed Mohammad Hosseini confirmed the arrests to the government news agency ISNA yesterday. “They (…)
Egypt \ The arab revolt \ Une - Générale - 1 \ Une - Moyen Orient - 1
Egypt – Disturbing moves against news media by Supreme Council
Reporters Without Borders is worried by the last night’s threat by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to use the state of emergency law against all journalists “threatening social peace.” It followed a raid earlier in the day on Al-Jazeera’s Egyptian affiliate, Al-Jazeera Mubasher Egypt, as part of an announced operation to check the licences of 16 satellite TV stations. “We fear a security clampdown in Egypt, with the use of all the provisions of the state of emergency law to impose order (…)
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Egypt – Is the Supreme Council a new predator of press freedom?
Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by information minister Osama Heikal’s 7 September decision, after consulting with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, to temporarily freeze the granting of satellite TV licences to recent applicants without saying how long the freeze will last. Heikal also threatened other TV stations, accusing them of indiscipline and saying he was asking the relevant agency to “take legal measures against satellite TV stations that jeopardize stability and (…)
Iraq – Lvin Magazine editor beaten by special forces, held for three hours
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s illegal arrest and beating of Lvin Magazine editor Ahmed Mira by special forces in Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. Mira was held for three hours before being freed by a judge. “It was 12:30 pm when men in the military uniform of the special forces stormed into Lvin’s offices,” Mira said. “After threatening by secretary, who refused to let them pass, and threatening to smash everything, they entered my office, searched (…)
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Tajikistan – President asked to intercede in detained journalist’s case
Reporters Without Borders and the National Association of Independent Mass Media in Tajikistan (NANSMIT) wrote to Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon today asking him ensure that detained journalist Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov gets a fair trial and an immediate conditional release pending the outcome of the trial. Ismoilov has been unjustly held in connection with his reporting since 23 November 2010. Dear President, The international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders and the (…)
