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Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
Authorities turn their sights on microblogging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a new crackdown in China on social-networking tools, especially microblogging services.
Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
Books banned by governments, list of
Connexipedia Article
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This article intends to list works, such as novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and essays that have banned by governments over time.
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Resource Type: Film/Video
Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
Burmese media combating censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Canadian News Synthesis Project - March 1976
Volume IV Number1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Censored! The news that didn't make the news-and why (book review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1993
Censorship
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
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Published: 2009
This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
Destruction of Voice of Palestine#s building. Reporters without Borders indignant at that new act of war against Palestinian media
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Dissident journalist facing jail term on 'disrespect' charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, who was arrested after a verbal exchange with a policeman in Artemisa (in Havana province) on 18 April.
Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
Egypt: Security authorities confiscate book about corruption
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that the Egyptian security authorities have confiscated a book entitled "A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria" by the Algerian writer, Anwar Malek.
Environmental journalists censored and assaulted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Journalists worldwide risk their lives to report on environmental degradation. In the fight against climate change, the media is a watchdog for corrupt governments that obstruct efforts to protect the environment. The media also plays a critical role in engaging the public through stories and research. But journalists who cover illegal logging and the polluting of rivers are increasingly censored, imprisoned, assaulted and at times killed.
Eyes With Legs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it#s Israel#s biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
False Freedom
Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2005
This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of #annoying others#
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia on 15 June.
IFJ Condemns Attempts by Embattled Food Company to Censor Free Speech in US
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned as "unforgiveable censorship" attempts by the US fruit company, Dole Food, to prevent the release of a documentary film Bananas which exposes threats to the health of banana plantations
IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsin, who has been denied re-entry to the country.
IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
IFJ Report Lists China#s Secret Bans on Media Reporting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009.
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
Iran: Book Censorship The Rule, Not The Exception
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Censorship in Iran has intensified over the last two years, with many books appearing only in expunged versions, while others previously available have had subsequent print runs banned.
Iraq: News website latest target in governmentâ##s legal offensive against independent media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in December and January.
Israeli army seizes Palestinian Internet offices
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Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
Israel#s new #attack on freedom of speech#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a #McCarthyite# campaign against human-rights groups.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
Journalists assaulted and censored
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
Malaysian cartoonist faces sedition charges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Awar Ulhaque, also known as Zunar, a contributor to the popular news site Malaysiakini and author of a new collection of political cartoons.
Malik, Kenan
Connexipedia Article
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Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
Writers' statement on cartoons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
Media Freedom
You will be harrassed and detained
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
This report analyzes how the Chinese government is failing to fulfill its commitments to respect the reporting freedom of foreign correspondents during the period of the temporary regulations and is instead continuing to subject foreign reporters to detention, harassment, and intimidation. It also examines how the Chinese government maintains a stranglehold on the activities of domestic journalists.
Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran#s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
New online censorship campaign extinguishes last flicker of Olympic torch
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
China's campaign against 'Internet porn' is targetting political and human rights websites such as Amnesty International's. Bullog (http://www.bullog.cn), a political blog portal, has been inaccessible since 9 January.
New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the intensifying judicial and media campaign to silence critical journalists and eradicate press freedom.
No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
On Freedom of the Press (1)
Prussian Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1842
Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
Police close pro-peace radio station in Jerusalem, seven employees under house arrest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Pornography and the Sex Censor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
Project Censored Canada established as America's Censored Newsletter dies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1993
Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
Reporters Without Borders unveils first-ever #Anti-Censorship Shelter#
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders today launched the world#s first #Anti-Censorship Shelter# in Paris for use by foreign journalists, bloggers and dissidents.
Self-censorship
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The act of censoring or classifying one's own work out of fear or deference to the sensibilities of others without an authority directly pressuring one to do so.
Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
10 Best Censored Stories of 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
The 10 Tools of Online Oppressors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
The world’s worst online oppressors are using an array of tactics, some reflecting astonishing levels of sophistication, others reminiscent of old-school techniques. From China’s high-level malware attacks to Syria’s brute-force imprisonments, this may be only the dawn of online oppression.
10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
CPJ names the worst online oppressors. Booming online cultures in many Asian and Middle Eastern nations have led to aggressive government repression. Burma leads the dishonor roll.
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
Thailand: With Censorship, Thais Turn to Websites and Foreign Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
When the Thai government imposed an emergency law cracking down on rampaging red-shirted protesters on the streets of Bangkok, the military, in combat gear, was not its only weapon. The state#s censors were given liberty to silence critical media.
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
Top Ten Censored Stories of 1989
News Release 1990
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
Toronto#s Citizen Lab uses forensics to fight online censors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Citizen Lab's team of academics and students investigate in real time governments and companies that restrict what we see and hear on the Internet. They are also trying to help online journalists and bloggers slip the shackles of censorship and surveillance.
Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
The 25 Most Censored Stories
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1980
Unveiled
Art and Censorship in Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
US and European companies jointly responsible for Internet censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders has called for the need for legislation to allow US and European Internet companies operating in repressive countries to escape rules imposed on them by these governments.
Vietnam: Blogger's Arrest Alarms Free Speech Advocates
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Vietnamese pro-democracy blogger Nguyen Tien Trung on July 7 for allegedly engaging in anti-state activities.
Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.
Women Against Censorship (book review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1985