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Swiss television crew detained in Qatar

Intern — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:38:55 +0000

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.

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Wikileaks: Swiss bank freeze’s Assange account

Index on Censorship — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:52:55 +0000

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

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Switzerland: Channel bows to Vatican pressure over offensive cartoons

Intern — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:06:07 +0000

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.

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