In September of 2001, with the global media’s eye fixed on 9/11, independent newspapers were closed and ten journalists imprisoned. This slide show features the six journalists still in prison and the four who died in jail.
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Following an opinion-editorial that called President Kagame a “sociopath”, the Rwandan magazine Ishema has not only issued an entire edition dedicated to apology, an editor has resigned, a Rwandan newspaper organization suspended its publisher, and the magazine suspended itself for a month.
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On September 1st two female journalists connected to the political magazine, Contralinea, were found murdered in a Mexico City park. According to Reporters Without Borders, eighty journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.
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In this report, Reporters Without Borders pays tribute to journalists who manage to continue working while in exile. RSF interviewed journalists, news media and organizations which it has helped and with which it works on a regular basis.
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Video journalist Hla Hla Win was sentenced to 27 years in jail in Burma for interviewing a monk during the 2007 ‘Saffron Revolution’ failed uprising.
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Reporters Without Borders rates Pakistan 151 out of 178 in their press freedom index. A recent attack in the city of Peshawar, in which a suicide bomber killed one and wounded 8 journalists, is one in a long series of violent acts against the press.
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Eknaligoda’s cartoons are critical of the Sri Lankan government, which has been accused of curtailing media freedom. It has now been over 500 days since Prageeth Eknaligoda disappeared while walking from his office to his home in Colombo.
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