Articles by Mizzima News
Twelve organisations call for release of Democratic Voice of Burma’s video journalists
Seventeen video journalists for the Oslo-based exiled media organisation remain imprisoned; they are among nearly 2,100 political prisoners in Burma.
Call for respect of free expression on eve of Bersih 2.0 rally
In a letter to the prime minister, free expression advocates and media practitioners expressed alarm over recent arrests of nationals and foreigners on trumped-up charges for supporting calls for electoral reform.
Publications exempt from prior censorship still receive warnings from Information Ministry
A division of the Information Ministry warned some newspapers and magazines, including a medical journal, that some articles were culturally inappropriate.
Over 175 publications free to publish without prior approval
A newly announced policy will allow 178 journals and magazines, in six categories, to publish stories without prior submission to the censorship board for approval.
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.
Thirty-seven IFEX members urge authorities to accommodate visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
The groups urged President Rajapaksa to invite the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, to Sri Lanka, while expressing deep concern for journalists who continue to be subjected to threats, harassment and assaults with alarming regularity.
Thirty-three IFEX members express grave concern over restrictions on freedom of expression
IFEX members note with alarm the efforts of China’s authorities to restrict freedom of expression in regard to debate on political reform in China, following reform movements in the Middle East and North Africa since late 2010.