Press Freedom

RIGHTS-MALAWI: “I Just Want to Satisfy That Curiosity…”

By IPS Correspondents
He was whisked away from his newsroom, bundled into a police van and detained for four years before being released without charge. Years later, Levison Lifikiro still isn't sure of his crime. Instead he lives with the pain of losing his job and family as a constant reminder of those wasted years.

RIGHTS-UZBEKISTAN: Andijan Killings Set Off Massive Crackdown

By Jim Lobe
The government of Uzbekistan has been engaged in unprecedented efforts, including massive detentions, torture and forced confessions, to persuade its people and the outside world that Islamist extremists were responsible for a bloody massacre in Andijan last May, according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW).

TRINIDAD: News Channel Torpedoed on Maiden Broadcast

By IPS Correspondents
The recent decision by the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) to halt the launch of a news channel here has reignited debate over whether the regulatory body is infringing on press freedom in the country.

MEDIA-THAILAND: Censorship by Proxy, a Looming Threat

By Marwaan Macan-Markar
Paiboon Damrongchaitham is the new public enemy of Thailand's independent press. ''An arrogant, inconsiderate entertainment mogul'' is how 'The Nation' newspaper described him in an editorial on Monday.

KYRGYZSTAN: Freedom of Speech Comes and Goes

By IPS Correspondents
The peaceful spring revolution this year threw out the old president and brought in a new one. For a while it also brought in a new freedom of speech. But government control of media is back.

UAE: Reporter’s Arrest Brings More Press Freedom

By IPS Correspondents
With the brief arrest of Basma al-Jandaly, a reporter with a leading English daily in Dubai grabbing headlines around the world, the issue of media censorship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become a hot topic in the Arabic and English press in the country.

RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Iraq War Critic Deported to US

By IPS Correspondents
The Australian government deported, Thursday, Scott Parkin, a soft-spoken peace and environmental activist, of the Texas-based Houston Global Awareness Collective, for participation in non-violence and civil disobedience workshops in this country.

PORTUGAL: Controversy Burns Over Sensationalist TV Coverage of Fires

By Mario de Queiroz
The heavy live television coverage of the forest fires that have swept Portugal this summer has sparked critics' complaints of sensationalism and warnings of the danger of encouraging arsonists.

MALAYSIA: Making Media Monopolies

By IPS Correspondents
Visitors to Malaysia would be bewildered by the wide variety of newspapers, TV channels and radio stations that cater to most of the country's several language groups.

RIGHTS-UGANDA: Newspapers to Some, Scavengers to Others

By Evelyn Kiapi
Concern is growing over the prospects for press freedom in Uganda - this after claims by President Yoweri Museveni that the media were compromising security.

MEDIA: Hiroshima, the Top News Story That Wasn’t

By Humberto Márquez
The atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 60 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, may have been the most crucial event of the 20th century. But it was not the top news story.

MEXICO: Press Freedom Under Attack from Numerous Quarters

By IPS Correspondents
The disappearance of a reporter and fear of reprisals from drug trafficking rings prompted El Imparcial, a newspaper in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, to cease any further investigations into the illegal drug trade and related police corruption.

CHILE: Demanding the Media Admit Role in Cover-Up of Killings, 30 Years On

By IPS Correspondents
Thirty years after the Chilean dictatorship mounted "Operation Colombo" to cover up the forced disappearance and murder of 119 leftists, the newspapers and reporters who helped spread the regime's disinformation still refuse to admit their share of responsibility.

MEDIA-LATIN AMERICA: Telesur Goes on the Air Under Fire from US

By IPS Correspondents
Sunday will be the first day of broadcasting for a new Latin America-wide TV network aimed at competing with U.S. and European international news stations.

MEDIA: Censored, But Not Silenced

By IPS Correspondents
When Nigerian reporter Isioma Daniel heard that a fatwa (Islamic ruling) had been issued against her, she "felt calm... then realised that there was no going back."

MEDIA-MEXICO: Demonstrators Storm Local Opposition Newspaper

By IPS Correspondents
Masked men armed with sticks forcibly occupied the building of the Noticias newspaper in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where 31 of the publication's employees had been trapped in their offices for a month by a group of demonstrators claiming to be workers on strike.

G8 SUMMIT: As Bloggers Will See It

By Sanjay Suri
For news on the summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations, Red Pepper, the British magazine "of the green and radical left," is inviting people around the world to forget the usual media channels and turn to coverage by its "grassroots writers" instead.

POLITICS-ETHIOPIA: Concern Over Election Violence Begins to Bite

By IPS Correspondents
International condemnation of the violence that followed the May 15 parliamentary election in Ethiopia took on new force this week, with news that Britain had suspended 36 million dollars in aid to the East African country.

U.S.: Surging Ethnic Media Speak in Many Tongues

By IPS Correspondents
Although largely ignored by advertisers, ethnic radio, television and newspapers in the United States now reach an astonishing 64 million people, about half of whom prefer them to the mainstream press, according to the first ever nationwide assessment of foreign-language and other ethnic media.

NEPAL: The Final Nail in the Coffin for Media Freedom

By Damakant Jayshi
After months of sermonising on the need for a "nationalistic" and "responsible" media, the government of Nepal - directly controlled by King Gyanendra - passed an ordinance aimed at taming it.

RIGHTS-AFRICA: Press Freedom in the Spotlight

By IPS Correspondents
The International Press Institute kicked off its 54th general assembly Sunday, in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
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