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Brazil – Bad year ends with two typical cases
Violence and local censorship threatened freedom of information in Brazil in 2012. Reporters Without Borders referred to this in the annual roundup that it published yesterday and will return to the subject in a report in January based on a visit to Brazil last month. Reporters Without Borders would meanwhile like to express its concern about two new cases that are typical of the obstacles that Brazilian journalists encounter in the course of their work. The first concerns Mauri König, a (…)
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Oman – Appeal court upholds jail terms for 28 netizens
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the appeal court rulings issued during the past two weeks that uphold the prison sentences passed on a total of 28 netizens last summer. “These arbitrary decisions represent a new stage in the sultanate’s determination to gag netizens whose only crime was to exercise their right to express opinions and provide information about the policies of the sultan and his government,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We call for their immediate (…)
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Cambodia – Some Internet cafés ordered to close
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) raise their concerns about online freedom in Cambodia as the Minister of Telecommunications, So Khun, signed a circular on November 16th, 2012, to regulate the use of Internet in the country. According to the decree issued by the ministry, Internet cafes cannot be located within 500 meters of a school or allow their clients to gamble, porn surf, visit websites selling drugs or commit crimes that threaten (…)
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France – Digital Council asks Sarkozy to be consulted about any terrorist website law
Reporters Without Borders approves of a request by the National Digital Council (CNN) to President Nicolas Sarkozy to be consulted about any draft legislation based on his 22 March proposal that “habitually” visiting websites that “advocate terrorism or call for hatred and violence” should be a criminal offence (read Reporters Without Borders press release). The CNN made its request in a letter to the president on 23 March voicing concern about the proposal and stressing that fundamental (…)
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France – Threat from use of Internet surveillance to combat terrorism
Reporters Without Borders is worried by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal yesterday that “any person who habitually consults websites that advocate terrorism or call for hatred and violence” should be criminally punished. Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech on 22 March 2012 (in French) – Watch around 2’00 “We do not in any way defend violent or terrorist websites, but we think that the president’s statement was made in the heat of the moment and went after the wrong target by focusing on the Internet,” (…)
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European union – Viviane Reding responds to Reporters Without Borders’ criticism of “right to be forgotten”
In its 2012 “Enemies of the Internet” report, Reporters Without Borders voiced reservations about a proposed European Commission directive and regulation on online personal data protection that would enshrine the “right to be forgotten.” Under the proposed reform, people will be able to have their online personal data deleted “if there are no legitimate grounds for retaining it.” All websites, both those hosted inside the European Union and those hosted outside it, would be obliged to comply (…)
