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South Africa's Mail & Guardian has more coverage of the Mikhail Beketov case today. Beketov, an editor of a Moscow-based newspaper, was brutally beaten and left for dead more than two weeks ago and remains in a coma. The Houston Chronicle also has a story on Beketov, as well as the dangers of reporting in Russia for all journalists.
Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ Blog
Press Freedom News and Views
2008
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 or AllThe launch of the Global Network Initiative, a set of principles outlying how Internet companies should conduct themselves in countries that stifle free speech, is making news this morning with the official Web site, Globalnetworkinitiative.org, going live today. Forbes.com, TechNewsWorld, and PCMag.com are all running stories about three major tech companies and human rights organizations agreeing to the "Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy."
The
New York Times has
updated coverage of the alleged poisoning of human rights lawyer Karinna
Moskakleno in
The deaths
of two Croatian journalists, killed when a bomb exploded beneath their
car Thursday in
The Web site Wired PR News has more coverage of Afghan journalism student Parwez Kambakhsh's 20-year jail sentence for blasphemy. The story cites our October 21 alert condemning the sentence.
Yesterday's 20-year jail sentence of Afghan journalism student Parwez Kambakhsh is getting additional coverage today.
In the
The jailing of Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Viet
Chien continues to be in the news today with the legal Web site Jurist and the South Korean-based news
site Digital
Chosun both running stories about the two-year sentence the journalist
has received.
Coverage of the arrest and jailing of Nguyen Viet Chien, a
journalist with daily Thanh Nien,
for breaking news on a state corruption scandal is making news today.
The attempted poisoning of Russian human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko, who is representing the family of Anna Politkovskaya, is the focus of a story in The New York Times this morning. The article cites our alert on the incident and raises concerns about the poisoning, which sickened Moskalenko only days before pretrial hearings in the Politkovskaya murder case.
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