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Presidential candidates ignore serious breaches of freedom of information

Published on 6 April 2012Read

Combating terrorism

Digital Council asks Sarkozy to be consulted about any terrorist website law

Published on 26 March 2012Read

Threat from use of Internet surveillance to combat terrorism

Update - 2012.03.26: Digital Council asks Sarkozy to be consulted about any terrorist website law (read Reporters Without Borders press release). (...)

Published on 23 March 2012 Read

After victory for free speech in France, Turkey’s turn next?

Reporters Without Borders hails yesterday’s ruling by the Constitutional Council that a proposed law punishing the “denial of legally recognized (...)

Published on 29 February 2012 Read

Coordinated attacks on Turkish newspaper’s offices in Europe

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns last week’s almost simultaneous attacks on the offices of the conservative Turkish weekly Zaman in (...)

Published on 20 February 2012 Read

Documentary filmmaking threatened by court ruling on autism documentary

Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by the precedent that a court in the northern city of Lille set on 26 January when it ordered (...)

Published on 7 February 2012 Read

TV satellite operator usurps court’s prerogative to silence Kurdish TV station

Reporters Without Borders is stunned by Paris-based TV satellite operator Eutelsat’s decision yesterday to stop carrying the broadcasts of (...)

Published on 20 January 2012 Read

French authorities will not execute international warrant for Florence Hartmann’s arrest

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the French government’s decision not to execute the international warrant for former French journalist Florence (...)

Published on 26 December 2011 Read

Reporters Without Borders appeals to OSCE and U.N. Rapporteur in Hartmann case

On 14 December, Reporters Without Borders wrote to Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur, for Freedom of Opinion and Expression, and to (...)

Published on 15 December 2011 Read

Reporters Without Borders profoundly shocked by arson attack on satirical weekly

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the firebomb attack that devastated the premises of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in (...)

Published on 3 November 2011 Read

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Azerbaijan - 21 May 2012

International freedom of expression coalition launches website ahead of Eurovision

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

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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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