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Belarus – Monthly hopes to resume publishing after investigators unfreeze account
Reporters Without Borders hails the Financial Investigation Department’s 25 March decision to unblock the independent monthly Arche-Pachatak’s bank account, which had been frozen since October, and the apparent intention to abandon a criminal prosecution for “financial irregularities.” “We hope that those in charge of this case will confirm in writing that no prosecution will be [...]
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Azerbaijan – Unfair Lobbying and Trials against Journalists in Azerbaijan
Downoad in PDF Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the harsh action the Azerbaijani regime is taking against its critics in the run-up to the presidential election this autumn, and distances itself from dubious attempts to create an anti-European mood in the country and thus weaken the opposition. One example of this is a supposed “study” currently in circulation on the decline of values in Europe, which claims the support of human rights organisations like Reporters Without Borders. (…)
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Azerbaijan – Unfair Lobbying and Trials against Journalists in Azerbaijan
Downoad in PDF Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the harsh action the Azerbaijani regime is taking against its critics in the run-up to the presidential election this autumn, and distances itself from dubious attempts to create an anti-European mood in the country and thus weaken the opposition. One example of this is a supposed “study” currently in circulation on the decline of values in Europe, which claims the support of human rights organisations like Reporters Without Borders. (…)
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Turkey – Life imprisonment for journalists in terrorism case?
Türkçe / Read in Turkish Four journalists – Mustafa Balbay, Tuncay Özkan, Yalçin Küçük and Güler Kömürcü Öztürk – are among the more than 150 defendants for whom long jail sentences were requested in the “Ergenekon” conspiracy trial when the prosecutor presented a 2,271-page summation to an Istanbul court on 18 March. Three of the journalists, Balbay, Özkan and Küçük are among the 64 for whom life sentences were requested for their presumed membership of a secularist conspiracy and for allegedly plotting (…)
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Belarus – Charge dropped, but jail still possible under earlier conviction
Reporters Without Borders welcomes last week’s decision to drop the charge of defaming President Lukashenko that was brought in June 2012 against Andrzej Poczobut (Анджей Почобут), a journalist of Polish origin based in the western city of Hrodna. Poczobut, who works for several independent media including the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, is nonetheless still subject to a three-year suspended jail sentence that he received in 2011 on a similar charge. “We call on the authorities to overturn (…)
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Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan’s detained journalists must be released
Four journalists wrongly held in prison for many months appeared in court in Baku yesterday in three separate cases. The trial of Hilal Mammadov, held in custody since June last year, opened before the serious crimes court in the Azeri capital. In addition, new hearings were held in the cases of Khayal TV journalists Vugar Gonagov and Zaur Guliyev, behind bars since March last year, and of Avaz Zeynalli, editor of the daily Khural who has been in prison since October 2011. Reporters Without (…)
