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Ruling party MP assaults TV reporter
Kamal Ahmed Majumder assaulted Aparna Singha while she was attempting to obtain his comment on a school authority’s decision to charge admission fees beyond the limit fixed by the government.
Editor released on bail
(Media Watch/IFEX) – Ekramul Haq, editor of http://sheershanews.com , was released on bail on 25 November 2011, nearly four months after his arrest on extortion charges. The editor of the recently closed online news agency walked out of Dhaka Central Jail around 4:00pm and went to his Moghbazar residence, his family and sources said. A […]
Seventy-seven civil society organisations call on UN to recognise importance of access to information and a free media to sustainable development
Prior to the UN summit of world leaders in Rio in June 2012 (Rio+20) to discuss the environment and sustainable development goals, 77 civil society organisations recommend the adoption of national laws on access to information, public participation and access to justice in the environment, a new UN convention on access to environmental information, and a UN Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Editor arrested, faces extortion accusation
Sheershanews.com said its editor, Mohammad Ekramul Haq, is being victimised for his reporting, which has included stories about corruption in government ministries.
Journalist in hiding following assault on home
The assault on journalist Imran Hossain’s home came after he reported on corruption in the local police administration.
Reporters attacked in separate incidents
ETV correspondent Liakat Ali Badal was assaulted when his crew travelled to a village to report on the torture of two women.
Thirty-eight organisations call for freedom of expression and justice in the Ampatuan massacre trials
Thirty-six IFEX members, along with Centre for Law and Democracy and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, expressed concern about the 12 April resolution of the Court of Appeals, Manila Special Division of Five, requiring Monette Salaysay and Rowena Paraan to explain why they should not be held in contempt for comments attributed to them in a “Philippine Daily Inquirer” article regarding the Ampatuan Town Massacre trials.
Thirty-four IFEX members call for murder investigations
Representatives from the international community of journalists’ organisations and press freedom defenders gathered in Lebanon for IFEX’s bi-annual conference and urged the Pakistani government and its law-enforcement and security agencies to take immediate action to implement all appropriate measures to protect media personnel and to prosecute murderers of journalists.