Archive for November, 2011
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
International delegation to Bahrain calls for an end to free expression violations and for human rights defenders to be freed
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
A young photographer was
stabbed to death in
Kiev on Monday night. Vitaly Rozvadovsky, a photographer for the Ukrainian weekly
2000, was stabbed at around 11pm and died in hospital around four hours later.
The murder of the 30-year-old is being treated as “murder with premeditation” but it is not believed that the attack relates to Rozvadovsky’s work. Mikhail Denisenko, editor of 2000 said that the photographer had not recently covered any sensitive stories, and he was unaware of Rozvadovsky receiving any threats.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Index on Censorship joins a coalition of seven rights groups in calling for the convictions of the “UAE 5″ activists to be expunged
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
A TV journalist in
Pakistan was shot and
critically injured during a riot on Sunday. Ehsan Kohati, a senior reporter for the Waqt News TV channel was wounded in
the chest and abdomen whilst reporting at a rally than turned violent in Karachi on November 27. Kohati was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he remains in a stable condition. Seven other people were injured and two were killed in the attack on a rally of Shiite Muslim mourners on the first day of the Islamic calendar month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
A government official in
Ecuador has issued a
public warning against a Twitter user following posts on the micro-blogging site. Betty Escobar, an Ecuadorian citizen who lives in the United States was warned by Fernando Cordero, the President of the National Assembly, to ”change her language or she would soon regret her licentiousness.” The warning followed a critical tweet from Escobar to the official which said ”you are incompetent, you fail to comply with the law and you support the dictatorship! you and correa should go to prison for corruption! double standards. “
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
A
Vietnamese court have
halved the jail sentence of a blogger after international pressure from government’s and NGO’s. Pham Minh Hoang was sentenced to three years imprisonment for attempted subversion in August this year after he wrote 33 articles under a pseudonym, which were ruled by the court to ”blacken the image of the country” and aimed to topple the government. Hoang will be released on January 13 after serving a 17-month sentence, but will then serve three years of house arrest.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Three journalists in the
Ivory Coast were taken into
police custody on Thursday. César Etou, Boga Sivori and Didier Dépry from daily newspaper
Notre Voie were taken in for police questioning on suspicion of insulting the head of state and harming the national economy. Publisher Etou and Chief Political correspondent Sivori were questioned about an article that appeared in the newspaper about 40 new Mercedes official cars made available to members of the government, while the assistant editor Dépry was questioned about an article from the newspapers front page regarding the value of the CFA franc.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
The retrial of
Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil was
postponed again on Sunday. The case, which was originally due to be heard on November 1, has been pushed back to December 4. Nabil was detained for accusing the military of having conducted virginity tests on female protesters on March 28. In April, Nabil was sentenced by a military court to three years imprisonment on charges of “insulting the military and dissemination of false news about the armed forces” in his blog “Son of Ra.” The 25 year old blogger has been on
hunger strike since
23 August.
