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Heavy-handed raid by military police on public TV station

Published on 15 March 2011Read

Journalist Sabina Slonkova convicted for protecting her sources.

Published on 11 February 2009Read

Press freedom threatened by proposed phone tap amendment

Reporters Without Borders condemns a proposed criminal law amendment before parliament that would ban the media from publishing the contents of (...)

Published on 28 January 2009 Read

Newspaper editor badly beaten in an attack that could be linked to his work

Reporters Without Borders today called on the Czech authorities to take firm action in response to a violent attack on Tomas Nemecek, the editor (...)

Published on 19 January 2004 Read

Arrests made in plot to kill investigative journalist

Four people have been arrested for plotting to murder one of the country’s best-known journalists, Sabina Slonkova, the Czech interior ministry (...)

Published on 22 July 2002 Read

Sweden - 18 May 2012

Three journalists convicted for researching availability of illegal firearms

Turkey - 12 May 2012

Two Turkish journalists released but more than 37 Syrian journalists still held

United Kingdom - 11 May 2012

Open letter to Members of Parliament on Internet surveillance

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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