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Egypt – Disturbing moves against news media by Supreme Council

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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 (…)

OSCE promotes regional cooperation on ground waters management in Central Asia

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 12 September 2011 – A workshop on groundwater management organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana, the Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Cluster Office in Almaty and the International Hydrological Prog…

Honduras – Journalist who supported ousted president becomes 15th killed in 18 months

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Honduras – Journalist who supported ousted president becomes 15th killed in 18 months

Medardo Flores, a radio journalist who supported former President Manuel Zelaya, was gunned down on the night of 8 September, joining the long list of journalists who have been killed since Zelaya’s ouster in a June 2009 coup. Employed by Radio Uno in San Pedro Sula, he was slain in an ambush near his home in the Caribbean coast city of Puerto Cortés. Regional finance manager of the pro-Zelaya Broad Front for Popular Resistance (FARP), Flores was shot just two days after another leading FARP (…)

OSCE supports discussion on role of parliamentarians ahead of presidential election in Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK, 10 September 2011 – An OSCE-organized forum on the role of the Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament in ensuring the conduct of transparent presidential elections, took place today…

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Italia, Aziende e sanzioni: Gruppo Marcegaglia

Il gruppo opera in tutto il mondo con 7.000 dipendenti, 51 unità commerciali, 210 rappresentanze commerciali e 50 stabilimenti sparsi su una superficie complessiva di 6 milioni di metri quadrati,dove produce ogni giorno 5.500 chilometri di manufatti in acciaio inossidabile e al carbonio per oltre 12.000 clienti.Nel 2010 il fatturato atteso dalle sue attività nel [...]

Egypt – Is the Supreme Council a new predator of press freedom?

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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 (…)