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China - During Bo Xilai trial, journalist arrested for reporting corruption 26 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Liu Hu, a journalist with the Guangzhou-based daily Xin Kuai Bao (Modern Express), on 23 August on a charge of “spreading false rumours” on his Weibo a...
Libya - Court lifts travel ban on ailing newspaper editor 25 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
Reporters Without Borders hails a 21 August decision by a special court in Tripoli headed by Judge Ali Zwai to return Al-Umma editor Amara Al-Khitabi's passport and remove him from a list of people ba...
Chad - Court rejects newspaper publisher's release request 23 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday's court decision to reject newspaper publisher Moussaye Avenir de la Tchiré's provisional release request, dashing any hopes raised by the release of two f...
India - Magazine intern gang-raped in reprisal for taking photos 23 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by yesterday's gang-rape of an English-language magazine's young trainee photo-journalist in Mumbai. The organization also condemns the beating that the jou...
Liberia - Newspaper editor jailed for inability to pay astronomical damages award 23 Aug 2013 | 01:21 pm
Reporters Without Borders condemns FrontPage Africa editor Rodney Sieh's imprisonment after Liberia's supreme court upheld a decision ordering him to pay former agriculture minister Chris Toe 1.6 mill...
Pakistan - Balochi journalist's mutilated body found in Karachi 22 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
The mutilated body of Balochistan-based journalist Haji Abdul Razzak was identified by his family today, one day after it was found in Karachi, Pakistan's business capital. Missing since 24 March, Raz...
Colombia - Letter to Colombian president urging respect for work of journalists 22 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Reporters Without Borders has registered more than 20 attacks on journalists by both police and demonstrators during a national strike by farm workers, miners and public sector employees that began on...
DRC - Radio station manager still held, although station now back on the air 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the immediate release of Simplexe Musangu, a radio station manager in Kolwezi, in the southeastern province of Katanga, who has been detained since 13...
United States - Lengthy prison term for Bradley Manning 21 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Reporters Without Borders condemned the 35-year prison sentence meted out today to U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning on charges including 10 counts of espionage and theft. The Obama administration ha...
Egypt - Police raid Turkish news agency's Cairo bureau, arrest bureau chief 21 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday evening's police raid on the Cairo bureau of the Ihlas News Agency (IHA), a privately-owned Turkish news agency, and calls for bureau chief Tahir Osman Ham...
