Category Archives: Press Freedom

Canadian Press: Libyan journalist killed in assault on rebel capital; Al-Jazeera crew arrested in west Libya

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"A Libyan journalist who ran a webcast program showing the aftermath of government attacks and commentary on the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi was killed in Saturday's government assault on the rebel capital in the country's east. ... Also Saturday, Al-Jazeera TV said Libyan authorities detained a team of its journalists in western Libya."

New York Times: China Tracks Foreign Journalists, Unnerved by Mideast Tumult

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"On Sunday, about a dozen European and Japanese journalists in Shanghai were herded into an underground bunkerlike room and kept for two hours after they sought to monitor the response to calls on an anonymous Internet site for Chinese citizens to conduct a “strolling” protest against the government outside the Peace Cinema, near People’s Square in Shanghai. "

FT.com: Silence about the silencing of South Africa’s press

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Gideon Rachman: "[A] proposed law in South Africa that would go a long way to muzzling the press ... is a major threat to South African democracy. Yet, I have been struck by the almost total silence of the British press on this subject. Papers that devoted acres of space to the success of the World Cup cannot be bothered to follow up with a report of what’s going on in South Africa now."

The Australian: Bloggers of the world, let’s shop!

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Online culture is thriving in almost every country I visited. The exception is Cuba ... Most bloggers prefer to protest privately, anonymously or not at all ... Despite their relatively small numbers and the penalties they attract, dissenting bloggers are playing havoc with the established order. According to Human Rights Watch researcher Elijah Zarwan, "bloggers have succeeded in doing something that years of standing on the street corner and shouting 'No to torture' or 'No to the interior ministry' has never managed to accomplish": putting these issues on the public agenda."

International Herald Tribune: German reporter wins press freedom case in European Court of Human Rights

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"In a ruling welcomed as a victory for freedom of the press, [the ECHR] has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published reports alleging fraud within the European Union."