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Afghanistan

Unexplained murder

Radio station technician and host murdered in Kapisa Valley

Published on 21 May 2013Read

Vietnam

Censorship by decree

“Decision 20” silences 16 foreign TV channels

Published on 21 May 2013Read

Pakistan

New York Times bureau chief ordered to leave on eve of elections

Reporters Without Borders deplores New York Times Islamabad bureau chief Declan Walsh’s expulsion from Pakistan on 12 May. Walsh was handed an (...)

Published on 14 May 2013 Read

Thailand

Projectiles hurled at Bangkok daily after cartoonist’s controversial post

Reporters Without Borders deplores an attack by four men who threw various projectiles at the security box outside the Bangkok headquarters of (...)

Published on 13 May 2013 Read

Vietnam

Netizen Prize winner prevented from taking international flight

Reporters Without Borders condemns the Vietnamese public security ministry’s decision to prevent the well-known blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh from (...)

Published on 13 May 2013 Read

Pakistan

Historic elections need strong support for freedom of information

Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter to Pakistan’s government and political party leaders on the eve of tomorrow’s parliamentary (...)

Published on 10 May 2013 Read

Vietnam

Police use violence against bloggers at human rights picnics

Bloggers and netizens who took part in “picnics to discuss human rights” in public places in several Vietnamese cities on 5 May were violently (...)

Published on 8 May 2013 Read

Bangladesh

Reporters attacked by rioting Islamists during clashes with police

Around ten journalists covering Islamist rioting in the central Dhaka district of Paltan on 5 May were injured in attacks by protesters and two (...)

Published on 7 May 2013 Read

China

RWB calls for immediate and unconditional release of journalist Sun Lin

看中文 Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Sun Lin, a journalist for the foreign-based Mandarin-language news website Boxun, (...)

Published on 26 April 2013 Read

China

Hollande asked to raise freedom information during official visit to China

Reporters Without Borders urges French President François Hollande to raise human rights and freedom of information with his Chinese counterpart, (...)

Published on 25 April 2013 Read