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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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Bahrain – Authorities use arrests, expulsion to prevent information circulating
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the Manama prosecutor-general’s 25 December decision to hold human rights defender Sayed Yousef Al-Muhafda for another two weeks on a charge of posting false information on Twitter. Arrested on 17 December, Muhafda is currently being held in an isolation cell in a police station in the northeastern suburb of Hoora. One of the accusations against him is waiting until 17 December to post a photo taken on 15 December of an injured young (…)
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Egypt – Appeal court urged to overturn Coptic blogger’s conviction
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the Coptic Christian blogger Albert Saber Ayyad was finally released on bail on 17 December and urges the judicial system to overturn his conviction on appeal. When a Cairo suburb court sentenced Ayyad to three years in prison on a charge of “denigrating religions” on 12 December, his lawyer, Ahmed Ezzat, a member of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, immediately announced that he would appeal. After (…)
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New treaty signed but not by all
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) ended in disarray on 14 December after two weeks of often chaotic negotiations. On 13 December, less than half of the members of the International Telecommunication Union – the UN agency that organized the conference – (89 of 193) signed a new treaty revising the ITU’s International Telecommunications Regulations. But a coalition of 55 member states including the United States and France refused to sign on the grounds that one (…)
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Egypt – Anti-Islamic video banned in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The Saryarka regional court of Astana prohibited the US-produced anti-Islamic video “Innocence of Muslims” yesterday in Kazakhstan on the grounds that it was “extremist.” The ministry of transport and communication requested the ban on its importation and distribution via the Internet. Its dissemination has been prohibited since 1 October in Russia, where it is to be added to the list of “extremist” works as a result of a ruling by the Tverskoy regional court in Moscow, (…)
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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 (…)
