After managing to resolve an impasse in the food insecurity situation, the United Nations should take the issue of civil and political liberties seriously and, right now, should at the very least insist on VOP being allowed to resume broadcasting freely and should demand the immediate release of its three journalists. |
All the world's leaders are subject to parody and the Australian prime minister should learn to live with it rather than banning it. |
Any prison sentence for an offence of opinion is unacceptable, even in cases of insult or defamation. |
As a matter of principle, the media should never be subject to constraint by the police or the courts, even when limited to a criminal investigation. |
At an earlier hearing he had been handed down a sentence, since cancelled, of 30 years imprisonment on exactly the same charge. |
Does the fact that this corporation operates under Chinese law free it from all ethical considerations? How far will it go to please Beijing? |
History is repeating itself because the calls for military protection for the state media were not heeded. Côte d'Ivoire's state media have again fallen into the hands of the proponents of violence, and no time should be lost in taking energetic measures. The installations of RTI and RCI should be made secure or, failing that, they should be taken off the air. |
If nothing is done to ensure the press is free to do its work, these elections will take place in a climate of intimidation. If the government wants the world to say the elections were free, fair and transparent, it should heed our call for a change in attitude. The Media Centre recently set up to monitor and punish the foreign press is utterly illegitimate and should be disbanded. |
In the Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong cases, the authorities, and in particular the State Security Department, seem to be having the greatest difficulty in demonstrating the guilt of the accused. |
It is not our job to question a news media's internal decision to fire an employee, but if the management fails to defend one if its journalists when she is the target of threats and then fires her as a result of external political pressure, it speaks volumes about its concept of press freedom. |
It is one thing to turn a blind eye to the Chinese government's abuses and it is quite another thing to collaborate. |
It is the only way to avoid taking part in the current crackdown against journalists and democrats. |
It's like turning Anne Frank over to the Nazis. |
Journalism is based on a code of conduct and professional ethics that clearly exclude telephone espionage but the concept of express permission of the parties could be used unfairly against the media if, for example, a source later retracts. |
Journalists are continuing to pay the price for the appalling situation in Iraq three years after the start of the war. We yet again call on the Iraqi authorities to carry out thorough investigations into these killings in order to quickly establish the circumstances. |