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Investigative journalist badly injured in targeted attack

Published on 30 March 2012Read

Unacceptable detention

Website editor arrested after publishing emails linking mayor to spying and corruption

Published on 16 December 2011Read

Anti-corruption police steal newspaper’s files

Reporters Without Borders today expressed “outrage” at yesterday’s invasion by Latvia’s KNAB anti-corruption police of the offices of the daily paper (...)

Published on 27 May 2011 Read

Satirical film censored on the eve of national elections

Reporters Without Borders today condemned censorship that has been slapped on the short film The Last Bearslayer made by film-maker Jānis Vingris (...)

Published on 1 October 2010 Read

Judicial authorities urged to end harassment of netizen and TV journalist

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Latvian authorities to abandon a criminal investigation into netizen Ilmārs Poikāns and journalist Ilze (...)

Published on 25 August 2010 Read

Newspaper owner gunned down in apparent contract killing

Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that media owner Grigorijs Ņemcovs was the victim of an apparent contract killing on 16 April in (...)

Published on 18 April 2010 Read

Riga-based daily ransacked by unidentified intruders

Reporters Without Borders condemns a break-in by unidentified intruders at the offices of the Riga-based daily Neatkariga Rita Avize (www.nra.lv) (...)

Published on 4 January 2010 Read

Concern about motives for dismissing director of popular current affairs programme

Reporters Without Borders voiced support today for investigative TV journalist Arta Giga following her dismissal as director of state-owned LTV’s (...)

Published on 26 June 2007 Read

Journalist died after being assaulted

In a letter to the Latvian minister of the interior, Mareks Seglins, on 3 December 2001, Reporters Without Borders (RSF - Reporters sans (...)

Published on 3 December 2001 Read

Azerbaijan - 22 May 2012

Two Azerbaijani writers missing in Iran

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

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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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