April 21st, 2011
ASwiss television channel claimed on 18 April that two of its reporters were detained without charge in
Qatar for 13 days. The RTS network alleges that the pair were in the country
to shoot a documentary about Qatar hosting the World Cup in 2022. The two, a journalist and a cameraman, were
allowed to return to Switzerland on Friday (15 April) after paying a court ordered fine.
December 6th, 2010
Wikileaks is reporting that Swiss bank Post Finance has frozen an account set up for the legal defence of Julian Assange. The move follow’s Paypal’s freezing of Wikleaks’ account last Friday (3 December)
Read Wikileaks’ statement
here
April 22nd, 2010
The publicly-owned television channel
TSR last week agreed to remove a series of cartoons which satirised child sex abuse by Catholic priests from its website, after protests from the Vatican. Some of the pictures were broadcast on an edition of TSR’s Infrared programme, which
tackled the issue of paedophile priests. However, a number of the more controversial images – one of which features Jesus Christ having sex with a child – were felt to be too sensitive and
published only online.
