“I cannot pretend like it is all normal in Turkey where there are 146 journalists in jail. I speak out in silence!”
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Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting (NRCT) banned Ukrainian distributors from broadcasting TV Dozhd (Rain) in Ukraine, asserting that the channel did not recognize Ukraine’s borders. In short, it shows The Crimean peninsula as a part of Russia. Is it enough for restrictions?
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Over the past year, dozens of journalists have been fired as a result of government pressure. Turkey’s government is improperly using its leverage over media to limit public debate about government actions and punish journalists who dispute government claims, concludes a new Freedom House report.
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A new report — “The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How Chinese Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World” — finds that Chinese officials have directly impeded independent reporting by media based abroad.
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Just before Iran, Burma ranked second to last in Internet freedom in a report called Freedom on the Net 2011, released on Monday by information watchdog Freedom House.
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