Index on Censorship » strike http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » strike http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Ukraine: Editor reinstated after protests by journalists http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/ukraine-editor-reinstated-after-protests-by-journalists/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/ukraine-editor-reinstated-after-protests-by-journalists/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:34:39 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=22265 The editor of the Kyiv Post, Brian Bonner, was reinstated to his post on 19 April after journalists for Ukraine’s leading English newspaper went on strike protesting his dismissal. Bonner was sacked on 15 April after publishing an interview with the Agricultural Minister which touched on the sensitive topic of grain export quotas. The newspaper’s [...]

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]]> reinstated to his post on 19 April after journalists for Ukraine’s leading English newspaper went on strike protesting his dismissal. Bonner was sacked on 15 April after publishing an interview with the Agricultural Minister which touched on the sensitive topic of grain export quotas. The newspaper’s British owner, Mohammad Zahoor, had pressured him to discard the interview.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/ukraine-editor-reinstated-after-protests-by-journalists/feed/ 0 Croatia: Glas Istre journalists on strike http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/11/croatia-glas-istre-journalists-on-strike/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/11/croatia-glas-istre-journalists-on-strike/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:49:31 +0000 Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=17509 Journalists on Croatia’s Glas Istre (Voice of Istria) newspaper  have entered their third day of strike action. They are protesting against wages and work places cuts.  The ownership of Glas Istre, until recently one of the few independent newspapers in Croatia, became increasingly doubtful throughout the past years. Croatia’s Journalist Union and IFJ back the strike. This [...]

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]]> Glas Istre (Voice of Istria) newspaper  have entered their third day of strike action. They are protesting against wages and work places cuts.  The ownership of Glas Istre, until recently one of the few independent newspapers in Croatia, became increasingly doubtful throughout the past years. Croatia’s Journalist Union and IFJ back the strike. This is the biggest uprising of print journalists in Croatia since Slobodna Dalmacija’s case in 1993, when the newspaper was privatised through a series of dubious administrative decisions. Since then, similar privatisation patterns were applied to many other Croatian media outlets.

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