At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper shocking. |
Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets. |
Here is a Government desperate to avoid the spotlight of public concern over deeply embarrassing revelations of corruption in high places. |
Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no longer be ignored by the international community. |
In a democracy you do not have hooded men carrying assault rifles breaking into the offices of a newspaper and a television station in the middle of the night and beating up journalists and other staff. To talk of press freedom in such circumstances is grotesque. |
Iraqi reporters and foreign correspondents have suffered heavily in this conflict, |
Media organizations and journalists' families face a wall of silence and an unfeeling bureaucracy that refuses to give clear and credible answers to questions. |
No. That is not what I heard him say. |
The fight for media freedom and democracy does not take place in one country, |
The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding between communities, that will reduce tension and that will enhance the quality of journalism on all sides. |
The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. But they are seriously mistaken if they think this will discourage journalists from expressing their solidarity with colleagues in Tunisia. |
The US authorities should reveal what, if anything, he is charged with or free him immediately. |
There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear. |
There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demanding that we suspend our right to free expression. |
There is an intolerable denial of basic rights here, |