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Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka censors BBC’s programmes on UN Human Rights Council
The state-owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) has repeatedly censored its FM retransmission of the BBC’s Tamil-language broadcasts since 16 March, a day after the start of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council’s latest session, which has been looking at the issue of war crimes in Sri Lanka. “The replacement of the BBC’s coverage of the Human Rights Council’s activities by completely unrelated programming is a direct violation of the Tamil population’s right to information,” (…)
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Bangladesh – Targeted by Islamists and officials, blogger interrogated and censored
Reporters Without Borders condemns the hounding of the blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who was summoned and questioned by the police three days ago, two days after the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) blocked access to his blog (http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/realAsifM). The government seems to have yielded to pressure from Islamists amid growing political tension. With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s approval, a committee was formed two weeks ago with the job of (…)
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Vietnam – Response to Vietnamese newspaper’s criticism of 2013 Netizen Prize
In an article published online on 14 March, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan criticized the fact that the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to the Vietnamese citizen-journalist and blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Like his compatriots Ta Phong Tan and Nguyen Hoang Vi, Chenh was singled out for his defence of freedom of the media and information in Vietnam and for the courage he showed in using his website for the free and constructive expression of diverse opinions about (…)
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China – Freedom of information still under threat after Xi Jinping’s installation
After Xi Jinping’s appointment as president, Li Keqiang’s appointment as prime minister and the conclusion of the first annual session of the 12th National People’s Congress on 17 March, Reporters Without Borders calls on China’s new rulers to end the surveillance and censorship of news providers. Many violations of freedom of information were reported during the month that preceded this once-in-a-decade change of leadership. Reporters Without Borders notes that Xi Jinping spoke of a (…)
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China – Enforced disappearance of three Tibetan monks following arrest
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about three Tibetan monks – Sungrab Gyatso, Yeshi Sangpo and Draksang – of whom there has been no news since their arrest in early December in Gonghe (Chabcha in Tibetan), a county in the northwestern province of Qinghai, for providing information about a demonstration. At the same time, Wang Dengchao, a policeman and a pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in Shenzhen, in the southeastern province of Guangdong. “Jail (…)
