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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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Israeli journalist to be charged with possession of classified military documents

The International Press Institute (IPI) today reiterated its firm support for Israeli journalist Uri Blau, whose indictment on charges of possessing classified military documents was announced by the country’s attorney general this morning. Blau, an investigative reporter with Haaretz, is accused of having been in possession of thousands of secret Israeli Defense Force documents passed […]

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Russian radio journalist survives attack

A Russian radio journalist stabbed 20 times last night in an attack that some suggested was linked to his work is reportedly expected to survive. A Moscow police spokesperson said an unknown assailant lured Radio Mayak journalist Sergei Aslanyan out of his apartment building with a telephone call and hit the journalist in the head […]

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