Statements

  

Kyrgyz officials issue ultimatum to RFE/RL

We issued the following statement after the state broadcaster in Kyrgyzstan said it would not carry programming by the popular Kyrgyz-language service of US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty unless all content was cleared in advance with the government…

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BBC and VOA Web sites banned in China

In response to reports today that the BBC’s Chinese language news site and Voice of America in Chinese have been banned in China, we issued this statement.

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Mexico’s special prosecutor urged to act

In response to a statement by the special prosecutor for crimes against the press Octavio Orellana Wiarco during a press conference in Mexico City yesterday in which he denied that Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, we issued the following statement…

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Politkovskaya trial re-opened to media

After Judge Yevgeny Zubov overturned a ban on the press attending the trial of three suspects in the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, we released the following statement…

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Authorities rule out journalism in Saipov case

In response to Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Fedorov’s announcement today about the progress of the official Kyrgyz investigation into the October 2007 murder of ethnic Uzbek journalist Alisher Saipov, we released the following statement…

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Politkovskaya trial should be re-opened

In response to news reports that a juror in Anna Politkovskaya’s murder trial disputed the Moscow District Court’s claim that the jury had asked for the closure of proceedings to the press, we issued the following statement…

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Russian editor still threatened after assault

We issued the following statement today in response to Russian news reports of ongoing death threats via cell phone against Mikhail Beketov, the hospitalized editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Khimkinskaya Pravda, who was severely beaten on Wednesday… 

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CPJ welcomes open trial in Politkovskaya case

In response to the decision today of the Moscow District Military Court to open the trial of three men in the killing of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya to the public, we issued the following statement…

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Crime reporter gunned down in Mexico

We issued the following statement in response to the murder of Mexican reporter Armando Rodríguez, who covered crime for the Ciudad Juárez-based daily El Diario in the state of Chihuahua. Rodriquez was shot to death this morning by an unidentified gunman, according to local press reports…

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CBC correspondent released

We issued the following statement after learning of the release today of abducted CBC correspondent Mellissa Fung in Kabul…

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