20 June 2012
IFEX Communiqué Vol 21, No 25
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The UN's special rapporteur on free expression, Frank La Rue, has announced his support for the
International Day to End Impunity, as well as other initiatives that fight unsolved crimes against journalists.
A crime reporter has become the ninth journalist killed in Veracruz since the governor took office in December 2010, says ARTICLE 19, noting that not one of the nine cases has been solved.
In the latest incident in a series of particularly brutal attacks on journalists in Bangladesh, reporter Jamal Uddin was hacked to death in Sharsha, Jessore, last week, possibly for reporting on a local drug-smuggling syndicate, report Bangladesh-based Media Watch and other IFEX members
Authorities have arrested at least 22 protesters and nine activists and writers since late May, in what the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has called "the largest [crackdown] in months that has reached prominent members of the opposition and journalists."
To protect the state-owned telecom provider, the Ethiopian government has introduced legislation that will make using online communication tools such as Skype punishable by up to 15 years in jail, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Fifty-seven journalists fled their countries in the past year, more than a quarter of them from East Africa, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Internet giant Google says it has seen an "alarming" number of government requests to censor Internet content in the past six months.
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