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Des représentants de Reporters sans frontières étaient présents le 22 avril 2013 à la Cour d'assises de Silivri (banlieue nord d'Istanbul), pour observer les audiences qui se sont tenues dans deux procès lourds de conséquences pour la liberté de l'information en Turquie : le procès du « comité des médias » de l'Union des Communautés du Kurdistan (KCK) et celui des membres présumés du réseau ultranationaliste Ergenekon. « Nous sommes ici pour manifester à nouveau notre soutien aux journalistes emprisonnés du (...)

Читать по-русски / Lire en russe Reporters sans frontières fait part de sa profonde inquiétude concernant les agressions violentes de deux journalistes de Novossibirsk (capitale de la Sibérie, Russie), Andrej Chelnokov (Александр Челноков) et Boris Komarov (Борис Комаров) les 1er et 8 avril derniers. Des enquêtes ont été ouvertes pour déterminer les causes de ces agressions. « La police doit mener des enquêtes approfondies et transparentes sur ces derniers cas choquants d'attaques contre des journalistes. La piste (...)

Editor Amara Hassan Al-Khitabi has been released on bail after four months in detention; he is still charged with defaming and insulting the judicial system and has been banned from leaving Libya before the end of his trial.

CCHR calls for the nomination of journalists to be profiled in a Press Freedom Campaign to mark World Press Freedom Day 2013.

Mamadali Makhmudov had been held since February 1999, convicted on charges of involvement in a series of bombings in Tashkent, an apparent assassination attempt against President Karimov. There was little evidence to back this up and human rights groups in Uzbekistan and world-wide rose to his defence.

“The Congolese defamation law does not protect the media. It protects the strongest, those who have money and power,” said journalist Nicaise Kibel Bel’Oka to Reporters Without Bordors.

Four Urdu-language newspapers in the southwestern province of Balochistan, Pakistan and a TV station are facing judicial proceedings for disseminating statements by banned terrorist organisations that they had distributed under duress.

As a global campaign to release journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye from prison picks up speed, other Yemeni journalists are finding it increasingly hard to do their jobs amid death threats and attempted attacks orchestrated at the hands of a variety of Yemeni factions with different agendas.