Daniil Kislov, founder and editor-in-chief of Ferghana News, paints a bleak outlook for journalism in Uzbekistan and says the independent media in the country is in a “deep freeze.”
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A selection of statements, views and information posted to social media outlets as the news that The Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, French photojournalist Rémy Ochlyc, and Rami al-Sayed, a Syrian citizen journalist, had been killed during shelling in the city of Homs.
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the Syrian government’s refusal to allow the evacuation of French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, and British journalist Paul Conroy, from Homs, along with the bodies of slain journalists Marie Colvin and Remy Ochlik.
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The editors at Tea Leaf Nation talk about what China’s new internet regulations mean for microbloggers, speculate on Twitter’s future in China, and explain some of the techniques Chinese netizens are using to work around regulations and censorship.
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Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the Prachatai Thai news website, faces a possible 20-year jail sentence for not removing certain comments against the monarchy from her website quickly enough.
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Alongside a litany of human rights abuses, Eritrea is perhaps most notable for its lack of any private, independent media outlets, which was the result of massive crackdown in 2001 on the press, labor unions, and the political opposition leaders.
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Despite the planned removal of media censors from Fijian newsrooms, press organizations fear the right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression is still very much under threat.
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