Somalia
Published on 23 September 2011 Read
Steady decline
Disturbing panorama of continuing media decline
Exiled journalists
Interview with Nikahang Koswar, editor of collective news website Khodnevis.org
Fighting for change
Citizen activism challenges protected media oligopoly
Published on 21 September 2011Read
Published on 22 September 2011Read
Africa
Harassment and attacks on journalists in Puntland and Somaliland
Authorities urged to lift news blackout imposed after Gatumba (...)
Rugambage murder trial – one defendant gets 10 years, other acquitted
Americas
No response from president to journalist’s appeal
After wasted month in prison, two social network users freed, charges (...)
Court confirms El Universo sentence, setting grave legal precedent
Asia
Cameraman dies from injuries during Taliban attack in Kabul a week (...)
Was army responsible for fatal shooting of Japanese cameraman?
Activists attacked while trying to visit human rights lawyer under house (...)
Europe & ex-USSR
Alarm over premature closure of prosecution case in Dink murder (...)
Court acquits online newspaper editor for second time
Serbian travel journalist held in South Ossetia
Internet
Jailed blogger’s brother harassed for supporting him
Middle East & North Africa
Convictions in Muscat, cameraman on life support in Sanaa, journalists (...)
Regime continues to wage its war against foreign media
PRESS FREEDOM BAROMETER 2011
41 Journalists killed
3 media assistants killed
157 journalists imprisoned
9 media assistants imprisoned
121 netizens imprisoned
Issaias Afeworki
Yahya Jammeh
Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Paul Kagame
Islamist militias
Mswati III
Robert Mugabe
Mullah Mohammad Omar
Thein Sein
Hu Jintao
Kim Jong-il
Choummaly Sayasone
Private militias
Gotabhaya Rajapakse
Nguyen Phu Trong
Ilham Aliev
Alexander Lukashenko
ETA
Organised crime
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Islam Karimov
Ramzan Kadyrov
Vladimir Putin
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
King Abdallah Ibn Al-Saud
Hamas security forces in Gaza
The Palestinian Authority’s security forces
King Hamad Ben Aissa Al Khalifa
Ali Khamenei
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Israel Defence Forces
Muammar Gaddafi
Bashar Al-Assad
Ali Abdallah Saleh
“Black Eagles”
Raúl Castro
Miguel Facussé Barjum, businessmen and landowner
Sinaloa, Gulf and Juárez cartels
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