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On eight-year anniversary of post-9/11 Eritrea media crackdown, IPI calls on government to release unjustly imprisoned journalists

Eight years after a sweeping post-9/11 crackdown on the media in Eritrea, none of the 12 journalists and editors imprisoned in that wave of arrests has been released, according to IPI’s ‘Justice Denied’ campaign – which highlights the cases of unjustly imprisoned journalists around the world, and murders of journalists for which no one has […]

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IPI/SEEMO Joint Statement: Turkey investigating journalist and celebrity over newspaper interview criticising government’s ‘Kurdish initiative’

A Turkish public prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into a celebrity and a journalist, over comments made in an interview printed in August in the daily Millyet newspaper which the authorities claim could “incite hatred and enmity,” IPI’s Turkish National Committee reported on Wednesday. Devrim Sevimay, a journalist at Millyet, and Hulya Avsar, a […]

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Niger editor imprisoned on defamation charges

The director of weekly Niger news magazine Le Témoin (The Witness), Ibrahim Soumana Gaoh, was arrested on Sunday on charges of defaming the communications minister, a journalist at the magazine told IPI by phone on Wednesday. Gaoh was arrested in connection with a 14 September article entitled “Wassosso à la SONITEL” which implicated Niger’s communications […]

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Japan’s Kyodo News Agency says personnel covering ‘National Day’ parade rehearsal assaulted by Chinese authorities in Beijing hotel room

A reporter, a cameraman and an assistant working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency in Beijing were on Friday assaulted by Chinese authorities who stormed their hotel room around 8 p.m., Kyodo News have reported. Kyodo News alleged that the authorities kicked the three media professionals and hit them on the head to make them kneel […]

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