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When Yingluck Shinawatra, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s younger sister, won the July 2011 general elections, Thais hoped this would end a series of political crises and open the way to more democracy. Unfortunately the new government has not ended the arbitrary use of lèse-majesté charges and has adopted many repressive measures.
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Reporters Without Borders again urges the Thai authorities to release Somyos Prueksakasemsuk, the former editor of the banned magazine Voice of Thaksin, who was tried on lèse-majesté charges during the past four days in Bangkok, with witnesses for the prosecution and defence giving evidence. Somyos has been detained for the past 12 months. ?The nine bail requests fo...
A Bangkok judge today postponed a verdict in the high-profile trial of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the news website Prachatai, for a month, until 30 May, on the grounds that she had not yet had enough time to examine all the documents submitted during the trial. Around 100 Thai and foreign journalists and international observers had gathered outside the crim...
This Reporters Without Borders opinion column was published on the Nouvel Observateur's website Le Plus on 2 February. ?Twitter Revolutions? ? the term is widely used and has been applied to the Arab spring, not only on the virtual ?walls? of Facebook but also on the real walls of Middle East capitals where messages of support and thanks to the social networking websi...
1005Mexico is one of the hemisphere’s most dangerous countries for the media. Drug cartels and corrupt officials are implicated in most of the crimes of violence against journalists, which almost always go unpunished. As a result, journalists often censor themselves and some have to flee into exile.
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Not a day goes by without some new horror in Mexico. The media have again been targeted in with armed attacks on two newspapers in the past four days and, a week ago, the murder of a former reporter who was supporting a presidential candidate's campaign. Will it be possible to hold normal elections on 1 July amid such violence? ?With just a month and a half to go to f...
The bodies of two missing news photographers, Gabriel Huge and Luna Varela, were found yesterday, World Press Freedom Day, in plastic bags beside a canal in Boca del Río, a suburb of the eastern port city of Veracruz. They had been reported missing the day before after being asked to cover a road accident. The discovery of the bodies came just five days after magazin...
A bomb attack on the offices of the national TV network Televisa in Matamoros in Tamaulipas state on 25 March has raised fears of a resumption of the threats that were aimed against the organization in the same place in 2010. The latest attack caused only damage and no injuries. However, it occurred in the wake of two other attacks in the same part of northern Mexico,...
In January 2011, the 11th Communist Party Congress, which ended with the election of Nguyen Phu Trong as the head of the sole party, brought no changes. Recently, arrests and harassment of pro-democracy supporters have been on the rise. Today, Vietnam has the second largest number of netizens in prison of any country, with 19 currently in detention.
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Reporters Without Borders calls on the Vietnamese authorities to abandon plans for a decree that would increase online censorship to an utterly unacceptable level and exacerbate the already very disturbing situation for freedom of expression in Vietnam. According to information provided by the banned pro-democracy movement Viet Tan, which Reporters Without Borders has...
Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist Nguyen Van Khuong's arrest yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City in connection with his undercover investigative reporting for the newspaper Tuoi Tre. Khuong, who writes under the pen-name of Hoang Khuong, is to be held for four months while the authorities investigate his use of a bribe to expose traffic police corruption. ?Khuon...
An appeal court today reduced French-Vietnamese blogger Pham Minh Hoang's jail sentence from three years to 17 months but upheld an additional sentence of three years of house arrest after his release from prison. As Hoang has been detained since August 2010, he is due to be released from jail on 12 January. ?We are obviously pleased by the reduction in Hoang's jail s...
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