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Sri Lanka - TV reporter dies in suicide attack attributed to the LTTE - 6.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders voiced shock and dismay at the death of Sirasa TV reporter Mohamed Rashmi, who was killed today in a suicide bombing blamed on separatist Tamil Tiger rebels against former General Janaka Perera that left at least 27 dead and more than 80 injured.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Oct-2008 19:13

Malaysia - Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin goes on trial for "sedition" - 6.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemned the trial for sedition opening today against Raja Petra Kamarudin, the 58-year-old editor of the online newspaper Malaysia Today.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Oct-2008 19:06

Burma - Journalist and opposition member Ohn Kyaing arrested again - 2.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for the immediate release of well-known former journalist Ohn Kyaing, who was arrested at his home yesterday. A member of the National League for Democracy, the main opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, he was freed in 2005 after spending 15 years in prison for writing ?seditious pamphlets.?
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Oct-2008 19:01

China - United Nations - Open letter to Margaret Chan, WHO director, about the contaminated milk powder scandal - 2.10.2008
The latest developments in the Chinese contaminated milk powder scandal show very clearly that the system of censorship imposed by the government has had a disastrous impact on the health of tens of thousands of new-born babies in China and other countries to which its milk products are exported. Reporters Without Borders urges Margaret Chan to intercede with the authorities in Beijing as quickly as possible on this matter.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Oct-2008 13:24

Thailand - Another provincial correspondent of Bangkok daily gunned down - 30.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Jaruek Rangcharoen, the Bangkok-based Matichon daily's correspondent in the central province of Suphanburi. He was shot several times in the head as he shopped in a local market while on his way home on 27 September. The killing is thought to be linked to his reporting on local government corruption.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 30-Sep-2008 19:22

China - Financial weekly closed for three months for reporting on a public bank - 29.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-month ban slapped on financial weekly China Business Post, accused of having broken the law in an article on the Agricultural Bank of China.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 29-Sep-2008 19:10

Australia - Federal police violate confidentiality of reporter's sources by raiding his home - 26.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by this week's raid on the Canberra home of Philip Dorling, a reporter for the Canberra Times daily, by federal police seeking classified defence documents cited in a story reporting that close allies Japan and South Korea were priority targets for Australia's spies as well as countries such as China and North Korea.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 26-Sep-2008 13:01

Afghanistan - Fixer released after being held arbitrarily and mistreated by US military for 11 months - 24.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the US military's release of Afghan journalist Jawed Ahmad, who worked as a fixer and interpreter for Canadian broadcaster CTV. After being held for 11 months for having Taliban contacts, he was freed on 22 September as a result of lawsuit brought by US and Afghan human rights groups in the United States.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 24-Sep-2008 19:14

China - Detained cyber-dissident Huang Qi finally allowed to see his lawyer - 24.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about detained cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who was able to see his lawyer, Mo Shaoping, yesterday for the first time since his arrest on 10 June in Chengdu, in the western province of Sichuan. Until yesterday, the authorities had refused to allow any visit by his lawyer.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 24-Sep-2008 13:07

Burma - Joy at U Win Tin's release after 19 years in prison - 23.09.2008
On 23 september, U Win Tin emerged from Insein prison still dressed in prisoner clothes after benefiting from an amnesty announced by the military government. ?It is unacceptable that he was made to serve 19 years in prison for peacefully advocating democracy but today his release is an historic moment. We hope other journalists and prisoners of conscience will also be freed", said Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 23-Sep-2008 19:11

Malaysia - Interior minister orders blogger held for two years under draconian security law - 23.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders ?strongly condemns? yesterday's decision by the interior minister to order the detention of blogger Raja Petra ?RPK? Kamarudin, the editor of the Malaysia Today news website, for two years under Malaysia's draconian Internal security act (ISA). Arrested on 12 September, Raja Petra has been transferred to Kamunting detention centre, northeast of Kuala Lumpur. He is accused of insulting Islam.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 23-Sep-2008 19:03

Afghanistan - France - French parliamentarians asked to condition France's military involvement on lasting respect for free expression - 22.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders has written to the leaders of all the political groups in the French national assembly and to the parliamentary defence committee's two rapporteurs, Pierre Lellouche and François Lamy, asking them to make sure during today's debate on the presence of French troops in Afghanistan that ?France's involvement also aims to ensure lasting respect by the Afghan authorities for press freedom and human rights.?
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Sep-2008 19:02

Malaysia - Condemnation of a worrying wave of arrests - 19.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest of blogger Syed Azidi Syed Abdul Aziz, nicknamed Kickdefella, on 17 September 2008.?Malaysia is experiencing a wave of arrests that are worrying for freedom of expression. Four people have been arrested for criticism of the regime in the past five days,? the worldwide press freedom organisation said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 19-Sep-2008 19:13

Singapore - Blogger Gopalan Nair gets three months in prison for insulting judge - 18.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 18-Sep-2008 19:05

China - Tibetan TV news presenter arrested in eastern Tibet - 18.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is deeply worried about Tibetan TV presenter Washu Rangjong's arrest by Chinese military police officers at his home in Amdo Golok, in the east Tibetan district of Sertha, on 11 September.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 18-Sep-2008 18:50

China - Reporters Without Borders website blocked again inside China - 17.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders discovered today that access to its main website (http://www.rsf.org) has again been blocked within China. The site had been accessible since 1 August, a week before the start of the Olympic Games.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 17-Sep-2008 19:07

Burma - 11 Sakharov Prize winners call for the immediate release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi - 16.09.2008
With just weeks to go to the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Sakharov Prize on 10 December 1988, an informal network of 11 of its past winners today calls on the Burmese authorities to immediately release Aung San Su Kyi and all other political prisoners.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 16-Sep-2008 19:12

China - Two Tibetan documentary filmmakers held for past six months in Tibet - 16.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Chinese authorities to release Dhondup Wangchen (picture), who made a documentary about Tibet, and Jigme Gyatso, his friend and camera assistant. They have been unjustly detained since March 2008 for filming interviews with Tibetans, above all in the Amdo region of Tibet
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 16-Sep-2008 18:57

United Nations - UN urged to stop discriminating against Taiwanese journalists - 16.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders deplores the UN's refusal to issue accreditation to the Taiwanese media for the 63rd session of General Assembly that opens in New York on 16 September.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 16-Sep-2008 13:23

Malaysia - Use of internal security law is serious press violation, interior minister told - 16.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard has written to Malaysian interior minister Syed Hamid Albar reiterating the organisation's call for the release of blogger Raja Petra ?RPK? Kamarudin, who has been held under the Internal Security Act (ISA) since 12 September.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 16-Sep-2008 13:03

Malaysia - Two leading journalists arrested under Internal Security Act - 12.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests today of two journalists - Raja Petra Kamarudin, the editor of the online newspaper Malaysia Today, and Tan Hoon Cheng, a senior reporter for the Chinese-language daily Sin Chew - under the the Internal Security Act (ISA). They could be held for 60 days.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 12-Sep-2008 19:04

Afghanistan - President asked to intercede in case of ex-journalist sentenced to 20 years in prison for publishing translation of Koran - 12.09.2008
Freedom of expression organisations Reporters Without Borders and Article 19 call on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to intercede on behalf of former journalist Ahmed Ghous Zalmai and Mullah Qari Mushtaq, who were sentenced yesterday by a Kabul court to 20 years in prison for publishing a Dari translation of the Koran. Dari is the Farsi (Persian) dialect spoken in Afghanistan.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 12-Sep-2008 18:49

China - ?Huang Qi did what any Chinese citizen would have done in his place? - 10.09.2008
After speaking yesterday with Zeng Li, the wife of imprisoned cyber-dissident Huang Qi, Reporters Without Borders today publishes a transcript of her comments, in which she describes his arrest as ?unfair and unacceptable.? ?Huang is the victim of the Chinese judicial system's lack of independence,? Reporters Without Borders said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 10-Sep-2008 19:05

China - Young woman fired from Uyghur radio station, then arrested - 10.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the dismissal and arrest of Mehbube Ablesh, a member of the Uyghur community in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, who worked for Xinjiang People's Radio Station.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 10-Sep-2008 13:21

Vietnam - Judges asked to show clemency to detained cyber-dissident being tried on ?tax fraud? charge - 9.09.2008
?You know, there are four kinds of people in Vietnam, those who know nothing and say nothing, those who do know and yet say nothing, those who know too much and are afraid to talk, and those who know, who speak out, and who pay the price.? - Nguyen Tri Dung, the son detained blogger Dieu Cay, in an interview for a foreign journalist who does not want to be identified.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 09-Sep-2008 19:22

Thailand - Australian writer held for past five days in Bangkok on lese-majeste charge - 5.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns Australian writer Harry Nicolaides' arrest at Bangkok airport on 31 August, as he was about to catch a flight to Australia. He was arrested on a warrant accusing him of defaming the Thai royal family in his 2005 novel Verisimilitude, which is set in Thailand. He is being held at Bangkok remand centre.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 05-Sep-2008 19:02

Burma - Journalist arrested after writing article about a double murder - 4.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 04-Sep-2008 19:08

India - Black weeks for press freedom in Kashmir, with a cameraman killed, at least 32 journalists attacked and targeted censorship - 3.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 03-Sep-2008 19:14

Afghanistan - Delays and obstruction in Perwiz Kambakhsh's appeal against death sentence - 2.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by delays and obstruction in journalist and student's appeal against his death sentence for blasphemy. This is illegal, his lawyer has told the organisation. And the appeal court judges refused to order Kambakhsh's release despite the existence of a medical report confirming he was tortured while held in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Sep-2008 13:18

Pakistan - Journalist killed in Swat valley, situation getting worse in Bajaur and North Waziristan as well - 1.09.2008
Reporter Abdul Aziz of the newspaper Azadi (?Independent?) was killed after being kidnapped by Taliban on 27 August in the Swat valley, in North-West Frontier Province. Reporters Without Borders points out that, under the Geneva Conventions, combatants are obliged to protect civilians including journalists.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 01-Sep-2008 19:13

Malaysia - Authorities order ISPs to block access to Malaysia Today news website - 28.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 28-Aug-2008 19:17

Thailand - Opposition protesters storm government TV station - 26.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns an assault by members of the opposition People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on the offices of the government-controlled National Broadcasting Service of Thailand (NBT) today in Bangkok. Broadcasts were suspended for several hours and one of the station's presenters was attacked.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 26-Aug-2008 19:23

China - 21-point directive to Chinese media proves coverage of games was biased and politicised - 26.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders calls on the International Olympic Committee to investigate this censorship directive, which is both a violation of the commitments given in 2001 and yet another infringement of the free flow of news in China.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 26-Aug-2008 13:26

India - Censorship and violence against press in Kashmir - 25.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Aug-2008 19:22

United States / India - ?We do not want another Shi Tao case? - 25.08.2008
A Bombay high court ordered Google's subsidiary on 15 August to reveal the identity of a blogger who used the pseudonym ?Toxic Writer? to post comment's criticising Gremach on Google's blog platform, Blogger.com.?We urge Google's executives not to comply with the local law and to appeal against the court's decision,?Reporters Without Borders said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Aug-2008 13:18

2008 Beijing Games - Marathon runners urged to turn their backs on Mao portrait and remember 1989 massacre victims - 23.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Aug-2008 13:15

Thailand - One reporter killed and another injured in double bombing in south - 22.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Aug-2008 19:25

2008 Beijing Games - Olympic disaster for free expression in China - 22.08.2008
"This repression will be remembered as one of the defining characteristics of the Beijing games. The International Olympic Committee will have to accept much of responsibility for this failure."
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Aug-2008 13:08

China - ?Geoblocking" on the Internet : Reporters Without Borders condemns a discriminatory measure towards Internet users in Tibet - 21.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns regional variation in the blocking of access to websites in China. The authorities unblocked the sites of certain international news media and NGOs on 1 August, but many of these sites continue to be blocked in the province of Tibet.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 21-Aug-2008 19:18

2008 Beijing Games - Internal police documents reveal strategy with foreign journalists - 21.08.2008
Although Chinese police have attacked or manhandled around 10 foreign journalists since the start of the Beijing games, they were told not to obstruct the international press in directives sent to police stations at the end of July, of which Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy. These directives nonetheless clearly instruct them to investigate the Chinese who talk to the foreign media, and another directive on 7 August (also obtained by Reporters Without Borders) orders them to deal quickly with religious demonstrations.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 21-Aug-2008 13:25

2008 Beijing Games - As Olympic Games continue, so does mistreatment of prisoners of conscience - 20.08.2008
Reporters without borders has received disturbing information about the health of cyber-dissidents Huang Qi and Hu Jia and journalist Sun Lin, and calls on the international community, including the leaders who will attend the Olympic Games closing ceremony, to intercede on their behalf.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 20-Aug-2008 19:10

2008 Beijing Games - China continues to jam international radio stations during Olympic Games - 19.08.2008
The Chinese authorities are continuing to jam the Chinese, Tibetan and Uyghur-language broadcast of several international radio stations although they promised to respect press freedom and the free flow of information during the Olympic Games, Reporters Without Borders said today.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 19-Aug-2008 19:20

Vietnam - No news of Ho Chi Minh City blogger held for past four months on spurious charge - 18.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the release of blogger Dieu Cay, who has been held on a tax fraud charge since 19 April.?This is an utterly baseless charge that is just a pretext to prevent him from posting more articles critical of the government,? Reporters Without Borders said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 18-Aug-2008 19:20

China - Eutelsat would be technically capable of restoring NTDTV's broadcasts to Asia today - 18.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders has written to Giuliano Berretta, the head of the French satellite company Eutelsat, urging him to resume transmission of the Chinese-language television station NTDTV on his W5 satellite and thereby respect the principles of equal access, pluralism and non-discrimination enshrined in article 3 of the convention that governs Eutelsat's operations.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 18-Aug-2008 19:05

Sri Lanka - Call for release of website editor accused of terrorism - 14.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Sri Lankan government to release J. S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist who has been held since March. A government minister has just said he is charged with terrorism on the basis of articles written in 2006 and his activities as the editor of a website.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 15-Aug-2008 01:09

Malaysia - Court orders online newspaper editor to identify visitors to website - 14.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 15-Aug-2008 00:54