MIL-OSI NGOs: Astronomical damages sought from Indian TV channel
Source: Reporters Without Borders – RSF regards the colossal damages sought in this lawsuit, which a court in the western city of Ahmedabad is due to begin hearing tomorrow, as an attempt to intimidate the Indian media and deter them from investigating why Reliance was chosen as French company Dassault Aviation’s Indian partner for the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: China censors US publication focusing on the video surveillance industry
Source: Reporters Without Borders – US website IP Video Market (IPVM), a Hawaii-based publication created in 2008 that focuses on the video surveillance industry worldwide, was blocked on Friday October 19 by the Chinese authorities without a notice or explanations. One possible reason could be reports last summer on Hikvision and Dahua, two Chinese technology […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: RSF relieved by Japanese reporter’s release after three years as hostage in Syria
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Yasuda’s release, which apparently took place on 19 October, was announced yesterday by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet. Yasuda is now reportedly in the Turkish city of Antakya, where the Turkish authorities are looking after him pending his return to Japan. “We are relieved by Jumpei Yasuda’s release after […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Tamil reporter harassed by Sri Lanka’s anti-terrorism police
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Based in the northern city of Jaffna, where he reports for the English-language Tamil Guardian and the Tamil-language newspaper Valampuri, Uthayarasa Shalin has been the target of harassment and intimidation for the past two months, ever since he was summoned for questioning at TID headquarters in Colombo on 22 August. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: #MeToo wave sweeps Indian media, but sanctions are slow in coming
Source: Reporters Without Borders – The wave has been growing inexorably for more than two weeks and was triggered by a series of tweets by the journalist Sandhya Menon in which she said she was sexually harassed ten years by K.R. Srinivas, her superior at The Times of India in Hyderabad. Menon said she complained […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Brazil: Newspaper attacked after reporting illegal funding that benefited presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro
Source: Reporters Without Borders – The 18 October article in the Folha de São Paulo claimed that businessmen have been illegally funding a WhatsApp disinformation campaign designed to get Brazilians to vote for Bolsonaro in the presidential election, the second round of which is to be held on 28 October. According to the report, WhatsApp […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Mélenchon’s ever-growing guerrilla war against the media
Source: Reporters Without Borders – The evolution in Mélenchon’s comments about or against the media reflect a steady growth in hostility and vengefulness. He used insults during the presidential campaign in March 2017, describing a France 5 reporter as a “dirty bastard” and a “dog” and referring to France 2 as the “enemy.” Last December, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Journalist killed in armed attack in Kandahar
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Two senior Afghan officials were also killed in the attack: Kandahar police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq and the head of the National Directorate of Security in Kandahar province, Abdul Momin. The attack took place during a meeting in the governor’s compound between Afghan and US officials, including the top US […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: US — #WeeklyAddress: October 15 – October 21: Former FBI agent receives four-year sentence for violating Espionage Act
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Former FBI agent receives four-year sentence for violating Espionage Act Former FBI agent Terry Albury received a four-year prison sentence on October 18 after pleading guilty to two counts of violating the Espionage Act last year. Albury was accused of compromising national security by taking and leaking dozens of FBI […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: RSF issues warning about Saudi Arabia’s Press Freedom Index ranking
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Saudi Arabia is ranked very low, 169th out of 180 countries, in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index that RSF published last April, but it will very probably fall even lower in the 2019 Index because of the gravity of the violence and abuses of all kinds against journalists. Saudi […]
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