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The former president of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf stepped (or leapt up) to the presidency with a free-media policy, or at least claimed so. While the appearances and presentations of media became more westernized and stylish, allowing some...
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The world ranking for freedom of press in 175 countries as reported by French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), earlier this month, has some surprises. Brazil went...
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Hugo Chavez’s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services —...
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Israel often likes to brag that it is ostensible “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Considering that this “democracy” is a...
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The Moroccan Interior ministry decided to sue the daily newspaper Akhbar Al-Yawm and seize it after publishing a caricature about the royal family and using David star...
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President Cristina Fernandez on Friday proposed decriminalizing libel and slander as a way of “guaranteeing even more” freedom of expression in...
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George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...
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Chavez’s government is “moving forcefully to silence critics,” said the unclassified U.S. analysis prepared by the Open Source Center, a U.S....
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As Venezuelans increasingly confront the consequences of Chavez’s “21st Century” through rampant inflation, decreased investment and a declining...
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The news editor of Zambia’s largest independent newspaper has gone on trial accused of distributing obscene images.
Chansa Kabwela sent two photographs of a...
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More than a dozen of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his...
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Here is the Tunisia that Ben Ali does not want you to see:
“Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard wrote to Tunisian justice...
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Did you read this very shocking news? Many of you must have seen this headline in an Indian newspaper: Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes....
made popular Jun 26 2009
Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
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China’s top legislature Monday reviewed for the first time a draft revision to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, underlining the cutoff of Internet or other...
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It is troubling enough that Italy’s rhetorically offensive Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi comes from a family that controls “half the television output,...
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Amid repeated threats by President Hugo Chavez to shut down the Globovision television station, government prosecutors Thursday indicted the station’s main owner...
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Tiananmen Square, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you all are familiar with and so is with censorship in china. Freedom of expression is something that...
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Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
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Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
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Reporters Without Borders has issued its annual report about press freedom in the world, Press Freedom Index 2008. The results came as usual in terms of the Middle East...
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SRI LANKA-Two local journalists working for foreign media were detained at the Valachchenai military check point and sent back to Colombo saying that they need special...
made popular May 10 2008
EVEN in his soft-spoken manner, Zambia’s sports minister Gabriel Namulambe drops some bombshells.
But this time around, I think he has dropped a blunder-shell, if at...
made popular Apr 30 2008
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