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Is Latvia eyeing a Hungarian-style Media Council?

Published on 29 June 2012Read

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Narrow escape

Investigative journalist badly injured in targeted attack

Published on 30 March 2012Read

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

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns yesterday’s arrest of Leonīds Jākobsons, a news website owner and editor who for the past month has been (...)

Published on 16 December 2011 Read

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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