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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 (…)
Egypt \ The arab revolt \ Une - Moyen Orient - 1
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 (…)
Tajikistan \ Une - Europe - 1 \ Une - Générale - 3
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 (…)
Turkey \ Une - Europe - 1 \ Une - Générale - 3
Turkey – Investigative journalists complete six months in detention on terrorism charges
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the way the Turkish authorities continue to treat two of the country’s leading investigative journalists, Ahmet Sik (Ahmet Şık) and Nedim Sener (Nedim Şener), who have just completed their sixth month in prison on trumped-up terrorism charges. They have been held since 3 March. “These two journalists have already been detained without any justification for six months and the trial has not even started,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Each day they spend (…)
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Egypt – Hunger striking blogger’s health and prison conditions much worse
Maikel Nabil Sanad, an imprisoned blogger who began a hunger strike on 23 August, has now stopped drinking water and his physical condition is extremely worrying. The conditions in which he is being held have also deteriorated. His family used to be able to see him once a week but the prison authorities have reduced the frequency of visits to two a month. His family was not allowed to see him at the start of this week. Prison officials claimed that Sanad had said he did not want to see (…)
Iraq – Leading independent newspaper editor badly beaten
Reporters Without Borders condemns the severe beating that Asos Hardi, the founder and editor of the independent newspaper Awene (The Mirror), received from an unidentified gunman dressed in black as he left his office in Sulaymaniyah at around 7 p.m. yesterday Hardi told Reporters Without Borders that his assailant pointed a gun at him and then hit him repeatedly. The gunman acted alone but a car was waiting nearby. “I had to be rushed to hospital and I have 32 stitches and six bruises on (…)
Syria \ The arab revolt \ Une - Générale - 1 \ Une - Moyen Orient - 2
Syria – Systematic use of torture by security services
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the Syrian regime’s appalling repressive methods, which continue unchanged while the world’s media turns its attention from Syria to the battle for Tripoli. The famous cartoonist Ali Ferzat’s torture while abducted for several hours today in Damascus and the woman journalist Hanadi Zahlout’s torture while in detention are typical of the way the regime treats those who challenge its propaganda and express views different from its own. Ferzat was (…)
Accueil - Focus - 2 \ Helping journalists
Interview with Nikahang Koswar, editor of collective news website Khodnevis.org
Nikahang Koswar is an Iranian journalist and cartoonist who was forced to flee his country in 2003 for trying to sketch too realistic a portrait of the society fashioned by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Now living in Canada, Nikahang launched Khodnevis.org, a collective news website, in December 2009 in order to continue the fight for freely reported news and information and “to give a voice to the voiceless.” He regards exile as a way to independence and believes that a free and critical press is (…)
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Tajikistan – BBC correspondent tells court he was tortured while detained
Reporters Without Borders reiterates it call to the judicial authorities to drop all charges against BBC correspondent Urinboy Usmonov, whose trial began on 16 August in the northern city of Khujand. “Usmonov’s claims of being tortured while in detention are shocking,” Reporters Without Borders said. “They must be the subject of a serious investigation and those responsible should be punished. Unfortunately this is just the latest in a long list of irregularities since his arrest on 13 June, (…)
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Israel – Palestinian journalists under fire again from Israeli troops
Reporters Without Borders condemns the complete failure to punish abusive treatment of Palestinian journalists by the Israel Defence Forces in the West Bank. Many arbitrary arrests have been reported in the past two months and five journalists are currently held. Cases of Israeli soldiers deliberately firing on media personnel have also been reported. We urge the Israeli authorities to investigate these serious violations of physical integrity and to free all the detained journalists. The (…)
Bahrain \ Middle East & North Africa \ Morocco \ The arab revolt \ tunisia \ Une - Moyen Orient - 1 \ Yemen
Yemen – Violence, blocked websites and prosecutions – anti-media offensive continues
Yemen Reporters Without Borders condemns the attempted assassination of deputy information minister Abdu Al-Ganadi. A bomb exploded outside his home on the morning of 18 August without causing any casualties. An investigation is under way to identify those responsible and their motives. Suhail TV cameraman Ahmad Firas was arrested by soldiers from Daylami airbase on the afternoon of 12 August as he was driving towards Sanaa with his wife and children, who were released a few hours later. (…)
