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SRI LANKA: Journalists Laying Aside Pens Once Again
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan journalists are laying aside their pens once again and bracing for renewed confrontation with President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government after the revival of the repressive Press Council and fresh attacks on the media.
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GUATEMALA: Journalists in Jeopardy
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Veteran television reporter Rolando Santiz was on his way to downtown Guatemala City on Apr. 1 when two gunmen on a motorcycle drove up alongside his car and killed him in a rain of gunfire. The photographer driving with him was wounded but miraculously survived.
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RIGHTS-GAMBIA: Who Killed Deyda Hydara?
By Ebrima Sillah and Zahira Kharsany
DAKAR and JOHANNESBURG - Six of the eight Gambian Press Union (GPU) officials and journalists arrested last week have now been freed on bail. The journalists still face serious charges including "conspiracy to publish with seditious intention".
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WOMEN-MEDIA: Who Is the Editor?
Miren Gutierrez interviews ELISA MUÑOZ, project coordinator of The Global Report on Women in the News Media
ROME - For the first time in 15 years, an organisation, the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), is attempting to measure the progress, or lack of progress, of women in media organisations globally.
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RIGHTS: Sri Lankan Journalists Face Severe Persecution
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - At least 11 Sri Lankan journalists were driven into exile in the past 12 months amid an intensive government crackdown on critical reporters and editors, said a new survey from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released Wednesday.
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RIGHTS: Call to Drop Case Against Journalist
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Press freedom groups are calling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to drop its case against a French journalist accused of contempt over a book about the workings of the court.
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NORTH KOREA: U.S. Urges Release of Jailed Journalists
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - The harsh prison sentence given to two U.S. journalists found guilty of grave crimes against the North Korean state is eliciting concern from human rights groups and analysts.
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EGYPT: Cyber Insurgency Rattles Regime
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Egyptian cyber-dissidents are becoming increasing vocal in their online criticism of President Hosni Mubarak's regime, utilising a widening repertoire of Internet networking and publishing tools to expose government abuses.
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MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Promises But Little Action on Press Freedom
By Busani Bafana
BULAWAYO - While journalists welcomed a pledge by the government to reform the country’s closed media space, fears run deep over a horde of laws that continue to make Zimbabwe a media minefield where a ‘wrong’ story can land a journalist behind bars.
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EAST TIMOR: Journalists Hold Out For Better Media Laws
By Matt Crook
DILI - Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March.
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BOTSWANA: Deep Divisions Remain Over Media Law
By Ephraim Nsingo
GABORONE - While the international theme for World Press Freedom Day was "Fostering Dialogue, Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation", the Botswana government and the media seemed to take the opposite route - taking turns to snub each other’s calls for dialogue.
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MIDEAST: Who Does Not Target the Media
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue to be arrested and harassed by the respective security forces of the divided Palestinian leadership. And from Israel, a belated freedom has come to cover Gaza, but amidst other concerns.
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RIGHTS: Iran Releases Journalist in Politicised Case
By Matthew Berger
NEW YORK - The release Monday of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi from Tehran’s Evin Prison has been greeted with relief and concern by international human rights and press freedom groups.
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