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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Maoists Attack Journos, Threaten Media Freedom
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - When Kunda Dixit, editor of the ‘Nepali Times’ and 12 other staff members of the Himalmedia publishing house were attacked and injured by supporters of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), a week ago, it was a sign that Nepal’s ruling party intends to influence the media through intimidation.
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KENYA: Press Freedom: Going, Going, Gone
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - Dark clouds are forming against freedom of expression in Kenya, following the recent passing of a controversial Bill by parliament. The Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill, awaiting presidential assent to become law, gives the state powers to invade media houses, seize broadcast equipment, control broadcast content, even taking a station off air.
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MEDIA-VIETNAM: Blogging Boom Faces Gov't Blockages
By Helen Clark
HANOI - As Internet usage grows in communist Vietnam, fostering a vibrant community of bloggers, the government is looking at ways to regulate blogs, particularly those that tend to be political rather than personal.
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MEDIA: Deaths Down, But Iraq Still Top Danger Zone
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - The improved security in Iraq has had benefits for everyone there. This has included fewer Iraqi civilian deaths, U.S. casualties, and, says a new report, journalists.
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MEDIA-PHILIPPINES: Journo Killings Threaten Press Freedom
By Prime Sarmiento
MANILA - Three years after Marlene Esperat was shot dead in her living room, she continues to symbolise the plight of journalists in the Philippines who are increasingly being victimised or murdered in a country which prides itself on having a free press.
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RIGHTS: Less Freedom in Older Democracies
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - The older the democracy, the less there seems to be now of freedom of expression and right to information, according to a new study by the London-based group Article 19.
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Q&A: "Prison Made Me Even More Determined"
Omid Memarian interviews ABDOLFATTAH SOLTANI, Iranian human rights lawyer
BERKELEY, California - Abdolfattah Soltani has received the Nuremberg annual human rights award in appreciation of more than a decade defending individuals who have been prosecuted for their political and religious beliefs.
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MEDIA-INDIA/PAKISTAN: Post-Mumbai Journos Struggle Against Hostilities
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - Pakistani and Indian journalists and columnists, who forged personal relationships over the past two decades during countless joint media consultations and seminars, are struggling to overcome hostilities between their countries since the Mumbai carnage.
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CULTURE-CUBA: Rock n’ Roll Fanzine Fights Prejudice
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - For eight years, Michel and Alexander Sánchez have been publishing Scriptorium, a fanzine (fan magazine) dedicated to rock music produced within Cuba and abroad, in a society that resists accepting this genre and its fans as part of the national culture.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Hoax Call Hyped by Media - Get Hostilities to Brink
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - A hoax phone call from India to Pakistan’s President threatening military reprisals in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Mumbai city, hyped up by media, brought the nuclear-armed neighbours close to conflict.
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SRI LANKA: Radio Play Poses New Questions About Journalist's Murder
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - A BBC documentary on Sri Lankan journalist and actor Richard de Zoysa poses fresh questions about his brutal murder, 19 years ago, by highlighting little-known facts about his links to a revolutionary group involved in two bloody insurgencies, but is now the country's third largest political force.
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MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Reporting From Tribal Areas Highly Risky
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - Reporting from Peshawar -- hub of Pakistan’s tribal areas, currently the focus of a pincer movement between the Pakistan army and the United States-led forces in neighbouring Afghanistan -- has become a highly risky affair.
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RIGHTS: Proposals on Right to Information Kept Hidden
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - New concerns have arisen over the weakness of model legislation being drafted by the Council of Europe on the right of access to information.
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