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EDITORIAL: A Danger to Democracy

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein’s decision to charge Haaretz reporter Uri Blau with “serious espionage” for being in possession of classified Israel Defense Forces documents poses a palpable threat to the free press in Israel, particularly to the ability to criticize government actions and expose them to the public. As we wrote here a year ago, […]

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Colombian rebels free French correspondent

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, according to its Spanish acronym), freed reporter Romeo Langlois on Wednesday, May 30, after taking him as a “prisoner of war” on April 28. As IPI reported earlier, Langlois is a correspondent for France 24 and Le Figaro, and was taken hostage during crossfire between FARC guerrillas and Colombian government […]

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Legal framework and impunity are key challenges to Nepal’s journalists

In a report released last week by the International Fact-Finding and Advocacy Media Mission, a coalition of organisations dedicated to the promotion of freedom of expression and media development, members expressed concerns about Nepal’s media environment and the impunity surrounding attacks, even deadly ones, against journalists in the country. The  report is based on the […]

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Award-winning journalist who writes on organised crime in Bulgaria threatened

Bulgarian investigative journalist Lidia Pavlova, who specialises in reporting on organised crime in southwest Bulgaria for the Blagoevgrad-based daily Struma and who has been the subject of a number of threatening incidents in recent years, was threatened again late last week. Pavlova’s family car was set on fire on May 25 in the town of […]

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