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RSF Asia: Thailand - Dictators can thank Twitter for its new censorship policy

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:36 +0900

This Reporters Without Borders opinion column was published on the Nouvel Observateur's website Le Plus on 2 February.

RSF Asia: Tunisia - Internet filtering – danger of return to past in Tunisia

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:57:47 +0900

The January 2011 revolution in Tunisia brought an end to Internet filtering and control of online content but old habits seem to be resurfacing and Reporters Without Borders urges the Tunisian courts not to take any decision that could lead to the restoration of filtering.

RSF Asia: Iran - Rights groups urge international community to press Iran to end violations

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:37:56 +0900

Paris, 3 February 2012 - Reporters Without Borders, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights urge the international community to take a much firmer stance on respect for human rights in Iran by raising this essential issue in the talks currently under way with the country's authorities.

RSF Asia: Djibouti - Radio journalist threatened and tortured for 24 hours

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:47:27 +0900

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns radio journalist Farah Abadid Hildid's abduction by the police yesterday and the threats and torture to which he was subjected during the 24 hours he was held. Hildid works for La Voix de Djibouti, a radio station that broadcasts on the shortwave from Europe and is now also available on the Internet.

RSF Asia: Kazakhstan - Leading independent Kazakh newspaper at centre of major media crackdown

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:20:00 +0900

Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by the growing crackdown on independent journalists in Kazakhstan “The authorities, even more paranoid as a result of riots in Janaozen in December, are using the security argument as a pretext to step up their crackdown on the media,” the press freedom organization said.

RSF Asia: Côte d’Ivoire - Le Patriote editor released after being held for 24 hours

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:24:00 +0900

Reporters Without Borders notes that Charles Sanga, the managing editor of the daily Le Patriote, was released at 6.35pm yesterday after being held for interrogation for 24 hours at the headquarters of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DST) in Abidjan.

RSF Asia: Portugal - Answers needed after public radio programme pulled in suspicious manner

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:10:39 +0900

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about alleged political interference at Portugal's main public radio station, Antena 1, which suddenly scrapped a morning current affairs programme called Este Tempo and terminated the contracts of five of the programme's commentators just days after one of them, Pedro Rosa Mendes, was very critical of the government on the air.

RSF Asia: Nepal - Government decides on big increase in range of documents to be classified

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:18:58 +0900

Reporters Without Borders is worried by the Nepalese government's decision on 15 January to drastically increase the range of official documents that are classified – a decision that had been delayed by appeals to the supreme court. The press freedom organization also condemns the many cases of violence against journalists that have taken place since the start of the year.

RSF Asia: Iran - Support for Khabarnegaran Iran, a news website for Iranian journalists

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:33:53 +0900

Around 250 journalists have been arrested and given long jail terms during the past two years in Iran. Journalists and newspapers that fail to toe the regime's line are exposed to the possibility of being prosecuted or suspended over a report or editorial. Many journalists are no longer able to work openly. Persecution of journalists has become part of the Iranian state's political culture.

RSF Asia: Russia - Office of opposition newspaper destroyed in firebomb attack

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:42:24 +0900

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the arson attack that ravaged the editorial offices of the weekly Vecherny Krasnokamsk in the Perm region in south-west Russia on 28 January. The premises of the newspaper, published by the local branch of the opposition liberal Yabloko party, were destroyed.