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IFEX information and resources from the National Cancer Institute

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Third line chemotherapy of germ cell testicular cancer when used in combination with certain other approved antineoplastic agents.

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CAMPAIGN AIMS TO DECRIMINALISE DEFAMATION LAWS 01 Apr 2006
IFEX, Many IFEX members have been calling on the president to follow through on his commitment. In February, 26 members issued a joint ...

FLIP, IFJ SUPPORT SAFETY TRAINING FOR COLOMBIAN JOURNALISTS 01 Apr 2006
IFEX, In Colombia, where a long-running conflict has made the country one of the most dangerous in the world for journalists, the Foundation for Press Freedom in ...

IFEX MEMBERS JOIN INTERNATIONAL MISSION TO NEPAL Mar 21, 2006
IFEX, This week, six IFEX members are participating in an international mission to Nepal to draw attention to the serious press freedom and free expression ...

IFEX NETWORK GROWS BY EIGHT NEW MEMBERS Mar 1, 2006
IFEX, The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) is welcoming eight new organisations into the network following a General Meeting in Brussels that ...

AUD students win two awards at IFEX Expo 2006 Mar 5, 2006
Strategiy, ...in Dubai (AUD) have won two out of four awards at a Design Competition held at the International Interior Design and Furniture Show 2006 (IFEX), one of the ...

Participants At IFEX General Meeting Call for Decriminalization of ... Mar 1, 2006
AllAfrica.com, We, freedom of expression organizations assembled at the General Meeting of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) in Brussels, Belgium on 22 ...

Participants At IFEX General Meeting Call for Action in Case of ... Mar 1, 2006
AllAfrica.com, ...freedom of expression organizations meeting in Brussels, Belgium, for the General Meeting of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), demand a ...

IFEX MEMBERS MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Mar 7, 2006
IFEX, On 8 March, International Women's Day, IFEX members around the world are celebrating the achievements of women journalists and calling for more action to ...

Emirates Furniture Factory gathers awards at IFEX 2006 Mar 6, 2006
AME Info, Furniture Factory, the leading total furniture solutions provider in the UAE, came up with a commendable repeat performance at this year's IFEX by winning two ...

JED urges the government to explain the attack on "Tropicana TV" ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(JED/IFEX) - Journaliste en danger (JED), is expressing deep concern over the attack on the Kinshasa-based private television station "Tropicana TV" by local ...

Policeman takes journalist to court for defamation Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 29 March 2006, the second hearing took place of a legal action against journalist Mireya Zurita, editor of the Aragua state newspaper "El Siglo ...

Authorities deny arrest of fourth user of Internet discussion ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders notes that the Vietnamese authorities have denied the arrest of a fourth user of the discussion forum Paltalk, which the ...

Home ministry pressures independent radio stations to broadcast ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(FNJ/IFEX) - The Home Ministry has sent letters asking Kathmandu-based independent radio stations to broadcast a "Home Ministry request" urging people not to ...

Writer Andrej Dynko released after ten days in jail, publishes ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(WiPC/IFEX) - Writer and journalist Andrej Dynko, arrested with hundreds of other protestors in the days surrounding the 19 March 2006 presidential elections ...

ICE Plus CAV Intensification Promising for High Risk Ewing’s ... Mar 31, 2006
Cancer Consultants (press release), ...of non-randomized trials, many physicians use a regimen of vincristine, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide (VAdriaC), alternating with Ifex® and etoposide for ...

IFEX NV Acquires One Million Shares in MobiClear Technologies Ltd ... Mar 6, 2006
PR Newswire (press release), AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IFEX NV paid the consideration by delivering receivables with a face value of in total EUR ...

JOINT ACTION: Participants at IFEX General Meeting express concern ... Feb 28, 2006
IFEX, We, the undersigned IFEX members and free expression organizations participating in the General Meeting of International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX ...

Ban on radio station in Bihar state illustrates unfairness of ... Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has expressed dismay at the closure of Radio Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 under the Indian Telegraphs Act after the station ...

Journalists assaulted by supporters of the National Electoral ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 28 March 2006, Globovisión journalist Rafael Fuenmayor, RCTV's Yanitza León and radio RCR's Adriana Rodríguez, were assaulted by supporters ...

Authorities harass independent news sites, citing need to combat ... Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about government harassment of three of Russia's leading news websites since the start of the March. ...

Journalists say reason for their on-going detention is unclear Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, New York, March 30, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by the detention since early Tuesday of two senior journalists for The ...

PINA condemns police assaults on journalist, publisher Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, It appears as though your police force members have erred in the extreme in the past few days. First of all, there was the assault ...

Surveillance laws passed by senate pose severe threat to press ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, New laws, passed by the Senate yesterday, give law enforcement agencies power to intercept phone calls, emails and text messages of innocent people. ...

Editorial cartoonist threatened with legal actions for depictions ... Mar 31, 2006
IFEX, ...(CRN/IFEX) - CRN has received a report that early in February 2006 a cartoonist for the Nairobi-based "The Daily Nation", Godfrey Mwampembwa, was served with a ...

Central Mindanao to showcase processed fruits in world exhibit Mar 27, 2006
Sun.Star, ...nearby South Cotabato and Cotabato provinces will banner Soccsksargen Region's showcase in the upcoming 3rd International Food Exhibition (Ifex) Philippines. ...

A fourth journalist kidnapped since the start of the year Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for the immediate release of Ali Abdullah Fayad, journalist from the privately-owned tri-weekly "al Safir ...

Independent journalist Lamasiel Gutiérrez Romero completes prison ... Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the release of Lamasiel Gutiérrez Romero, a correspondent for the Miami-based Nueva Prensa Cubana website ...

A second journalist sentenced in case of "homosexual lists" Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, ...(JED/IFEX) - On 24 March 2006, a Yaoundé first instance court handed down a double sentence to Ayisi Biloa, the publication director for the Yaoundé-based ...

Radio journalist assaulted and her equipment stolen Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On the afternoon of 22 March 2006, Radio Programas del Perú journalist Rosario Coronado Sánchez was assaulted by protesters who also stole her ...

Police superintendent threatens journalists with death for ... Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, ...(CEHURDES/IFEX) - CEHURDES condemns a death threat issued against journalists working at a leading weekly newspaper, and a random attack against a journalist ...

Kurdish-born Austrian cyber-dissident jailed for 18 months for ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Austrian national of Kurdish origin, Kamal Sayid Qadir, who was arrested five months ago for posting "defamatory" articles about the authorities ...

Journalists prevented from covering events featuring the president Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, ...(MFWA/IFEX) - On 24 March 2006, by order of Mr. Fodé Bangoura, Minister and Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic of Guinea, journalists were ...

Charges dismissed against editor and newspapers Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, ...(MFWA/IFEX) - Sahr Musa Yamba, editor of "Concord Times", an independent newspaper based in Freetown, Sierra Leone who was arrested by plain clothes policemen ...

Protesters supportive of prime minister harass newspaper Mar 30, 2006
IFEX, ...(SEAPA/IFEX) - Thai journalist groups are condemning what they see as an act of "intimidation" against a local daily by protesters sympathetic to embattled ...

Two journalists receive three-year sentences for photographing new ... Mar 30, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association have voiced outrage at the three-year prison sentences imposed on journalists Ko Thar ...

Four Kenyan journalists arrested, detained by immigration officers ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(AFMF/IFEX) - On 24 March 2006, four Kenyan journalists were arrested and detained by Tanzanian immigration officers while covering court proceedings in Moshi ...

Editor-in-chief spends week-end in prison under police pressure to ... Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, Comorian Print Media Organization (l'Organisation comorienne de la presse écrite, OCPE), was taken into custody on 25 March 2006 at approximately IFEX style: 9 ...

Journalist receives death threats over census story Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, ...(MRA/IFEX) - Emmanuel Ugwu, a correspondent for "ThisDay" newspaper in Enugu State in southeastern Nigeria, has lodged a complaint with the State Commissioner ...

Owner of new newspaper and journalists being sued for libel over ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - Tanzanian media owner and prominent businessman Reginald Mengi and several of the journalists working in his media outlets have been slapped with ...

Closed newspaper's general manager detained Mar 29, 2006
IFEX, New York, March 28, 2006 - Plainclothes Gambian security agents today sealed the offices of the twice-weekly newspaper The Independent and arrested staffers ...

Broadcast journalist arrested and detained overnight Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(MRA/IFEX) - On 14 March 2006, Segun Owolabi, a senior news officer with Rhythm 93 FM radio in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital in the Niger Delta region ...

Tuna and fruits: Region 12’s pried in the Int’l Food ... Mar 20, 2006
Minda News, ...nearby South Cotabato and Cotabato provinces will take centerstage in Region 12’s showcase at the 3rd International Food Exhibition (IFEX) Philipppines at ...

Updated Guidelines for Treatment of Ovarian Cancer Mar 27, 2006
Cancer Consultants (press release), ...for recurrent ovarian cancer was broadened to include Arimidex® (anastrozole), Avastin® (bevacizumab), Camptosar® (ironotecan), Ifex® (ifosfamide), and ...

Media crew assaulted during student demonstration in Pereira Mar 24, 2006
IFEX, ...(FLIP/IFEX) - Journalist Diana Vega and cameraman Jorge Sandoval, both of Canal Caracol television in Pereira, the capital of Risaralda department, were ...

Jailed Algerian Newspaper Publisher, Banned Turkmen Novelist To ... Mar 30, 2006
IFEX, New York, New York, March 29, 2006 - PEN American Center today named Mohammed Benchicou, a newspaper publisher already in prison and facing 50 additional ...

Regional newspaper team assaulted while covering demonstration by ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 17 March 2006, journalist Marsha Lee González and photographer Trina Marichales, both of the newspaper "El Luchador", were assaulted by ...

Demonstrators assault teams of journalists Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 23 March 2006, Channel 13's programme "Noticias en Red" journalist Gudelia Galvez Tafur and cameraman Moisés Cadillo Sánchez, and Channel ...

Website editor assaulted and injured Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, ...(CJES/IFEX) - On 20 March 2006 at about 9:00 pm (local time), Marina Litvinovich, the chief editor of Internet site Pravda Beslana and coordinator of the ...

Charges dropped against journalist Zhao Yan of "The New York Times ... Mar 17, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders welcomed news that charges have been dropped against journalist and contributor to US daily "New York Times", Zhao Yan ...

Two Afghan TV channels banned in Pakistan Mar 17, 2006
IFEX, ...(PPF/IFEX) - On 16 March 2006, broadcasting regulatory authorities in Pakistan barred local cable operators from airing two Afghan TV channels because these ...

Journalist Akbar Ganji released Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has hailed the release of Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji from Evin prison, north of the capital, where he had been held ...

Journalist detained, questioned, insulted by police Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(MFWA/IFEX) - On 11 March 2006, Almany Kalla Conté, a reporter of the "Lynx - La Lance" press group, was detained and questioned for several hours by the ...

Journalist under house arrest for defamation Mar 22, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - Ibeyise Pacheco, journalist and columnist for the newspaper "El Nacional", has been under house arrest since 15 March 2006 after the 11th ...

Journalists denied access to press conference Mar 24, 2006
IFEX, ...(MFWA/IFEX) - Media organisations in Benin have denounced attempts by security forces to suppress press freedom in Benin following their refusal to allow ...

Editor arrested and released; faces high treason charges for ... Mar 23, 2006
IFEX, ...(MFWA/IFEX) - Distel Amoussou, managing editor of "Panorama" daily newspaper, was arrested on the afternoon of 16 February 2006 by a service attached to the ...

Draft bill seeks to allow government monitoring of telephone, e ... Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The Zimbabwean government has drafted a bill that would permit the surveillance of telephone and e-mail communications while making it compulsory ...

Journalist sentenced to ten years in prison for online anti ... Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemned a ten-year prison sentence handed down to Ren Zhiyuan, 27, for posting virulent anti-government articles online ...

Community radio station director, two students questioned by ... Mar 17, 2006
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - On 14 March 2006, Chikuni community radio station Director Fr. Andrew Lesniara and two students were questioned by ...

Journalist Bhawana Prasain freed after being held for 35 days and ... Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has hailed the 15 March 2006 release of journalist Bhawana Prasain of the monthly "Majdur Aawaj", who had been held ...

Committee rejects provision in draft law prohibiting imprisonment ... Mar 21, 2006
IFEX, ...(AAI/IFEX) - On 13 March 2006, the Lower House National Guidance Committee (NGC) rejected a provision in the amended draft Press and Publications Law. ...

Journalist assaulted during presidential candidate's meeting Mar 24, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 20 March 2006, journalist Andy Ortiz of Canal N television was assaulted when reporting on a meeting of presidential candidate Ollanta Humala ...

A year after journalist Marlene Esperat's murder, instigators ... Mar 23, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - One year after the murder of investigative journalist Marlene Esperat in Tacurong, on the southern island of Mindanao, Reporters Without Borders ...

Several journalists beaten after covering corruption case Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has expressed alarm after several journalists reporting on a high-level corruption case were beaten up and threatened in ...

Media freedom under siege (4) Mar 21, 2006
Manila Bulletin, IPDC supports the International Freedom of Exchange Network (IFEX), a global network of 57 organizations from 41 countries. Media ...

Landmark press victory in Thailand Mar 29, 2006
Legalbrief (subscription), The court, reports IFEX, dismissed defamation charges against media advocate Supinya Klangnarong and the newspaper Thai Post, ruling that companies, like ...

Samantha cooks up a real treat Mar 29, 2006
Belfast Telegraph, Samantha O'Kane will now go forward to the Northern Ireland final on Tuesday, April 25 at the Chefskill Salon Culinaire at IFEX, King's Hall, Belfast.

AUD students shine at the International Interior Design and ... Mar 5, 2006
AME Info, University in Dubai (AUD) won two out of four awards at a Design Competition held at the International Interior Design and Furniture Show 2006 (IFEX), one of ...

Prime minister files defamation cases against four papers Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, New York, March 27, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's decision to file criminal defamation charges ...

Campaign to decriminalise defamation set back by Supreme Court ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called a joint statement by the head of the Cambodian Supreme Court and the Minister of Justice, instructing ...

International mission to Nepal finds press freedom situation " ... Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, The press freedom situation in Nepal has significantly deteriorated in the last eight months, according to the 'International Press Freedom and Freedom of ...

Concerns raised as FBI agents use pepper spray on reporters Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, New York, March 27, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the use of pepper spray by US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents against ...

Newspaper shut down, journalist arrested Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, March 28, 2006 - Police shut down one of The Gambia's few independent newspapers, "The Independent" this morning. Staff were forced ...

CPJ welcomes improvements in press freedom climate, but concerned ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, The Committee to Protect Journalists has been heartened by some improvements in the press freedom climate since you took office in January 2005, but we remain ...

US military pledges to expedite cases of journalists detained in ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, New York, March 24, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes US officials' pledge this week to begin prompt, high-level reviews of cases in which ...

Journalist abducted and warned to stop writing column; CPJ ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the March 11 abduction and assault of a Yemeni journalist who was warned to stop writing his weekly column ...

CPJ urges fair, transparent trial for journalist Mar 28, 2006
IFEX, New York, March 28, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about Maldivian authorities' criminal prosecution of Abdullah Saeed, a reporter ...

Kiribati Govt Denies Restricting Media Freedom Mar 20, 2006
Scoop.co.nz (press release), TARAWA (IFEX/PNS/Pacific Media Watch): The Minister for Communications in Kiribati claims media freedom is excellent despite the dismissal of a state radio ...

Government cuts power to FM radio station as the army launches six ... Mar 9, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters ... However its editor, Jaya Prakash Gupta, is still being held at a Kathmandu police station (see IFEX alerts of 7 and 3 March 2006).

Three Barrancabermeja-based media workers subject to threats ... Mar 14, 2006
IFEX, ...(FLIP/IFEX) - Three new instances of violation of freedom of the press occurred in Barrancabermeja during the second week of March 2006. ...

National campaign for ending imprisonment for publication offenses ... Mar 27, 2006
IFEX, A collective demand by editors-in-chief of Egyptian newspapers, media professors, and representatives of human rights organizations, to initiate a national ...

Beatings, threats, arrests, unfair dismissal, censorship ... Mar 22, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Conditions for Nigerian journalists are as trying as ever despite the military regime's fall in 1999, Reporters Without Borders has said ...

Minister queried by parliamentary committee over government role ... Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(AFMF/IFEX) - On 18 March 2006, the Parliamentary Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs (CAJLA) questioned Kenya's Internal Security ...

ANZ licensing decision falls to minister, following judge's ruling ... Mar 20, 2006
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe's (ANZ) legal battle to be granted an operating licence has taken a new twist, with the Minister of ...

Source: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Mar 23, 2006
IFEX, ...(MFWA/IFEX) - Sahr Musa Yamba, editor of "Concord Times", an independent newspaper based in Freetown was arrested on 20 March 2006 by plain-clothed policemen ...

Two journalists released; time to reconsider controversial press ... Mar 24, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has welcomed the recent release of two journalists, even if they are still awaiting trial, and suggested this was ...

Journalist faces defamation charges Mar 22, 2006
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 13 March 2006, the 45th Tribunal, presided by Judge Marilda Ruiz, allowed a slander case to go ahead against "El Nacional" journalist and ...

HRinfo sets up press observatory to monitor Tunisian coverage in ... Mar 24, 2006
IFEX, Egyptian press coverage of Tunisia. HRInfo belongs to the 15-member IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG). HRinfo sent letters to ...

Blogger and documentary filmmaker held for the past month Mar 22, 2006
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has written to President Hu Jintao asking him to intervene on behalf of documentary filmmaker Hao Wu, who was arrested ...

Seven journalists assaulted by police and students in Papua Mar 23, 2006
IFEX, ...(SEAPA/IFEX) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for a meeting of police officials in Papua province following an assault by policemen ...

Court prohibits individual from publishing criticism of health ... Mar 17, 2006
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The Media Institute of Southern Africa - South Africa (MISA-SA) is alarmed at the judiciary's continuing imposition of restrictions on the ...

Morocco puts US censorship busting site Anonymizer.com on its ... 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - The Moroccan government has blocked the US website http://www.Anonymizer.com, which allows Internet users to get around censorship, days after ...

Freelance journalist arrested briefly, passport taken, for writing ... 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for the immediate return of freelance journalist VM Sathish's passport that was confiscated when he was ...

Security agents close radio station briefly, detain journalists ... 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, ...(MRA/IFEX) - On 17 December 2005, armed policemen and agents of the State Security Service (SSS), Nigeria's intelligence service, shut down a privately-owned ...

Journalists assaulted, video camera stolen 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 10 December 2005, journalist Rosemberg Valverde and her assistant José Carlos Ponce de León, both of Frecuencia Latina television, were ...

Police cannot find file of ailing journalist held for past five ... 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, Reporters Without Borders today denounced the continuing detention of journalist Oscar Mario González Pérez as "arbitrary and absurd" after the Havana police ...

CPJ urges UN Secretary-General to widen Hariri murder probe to ... 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, New York, December 16, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today urged United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to work to broaden a UN ...

INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY OVER PROPOSED NGO LAW 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, In Russia, where the media has come under increasing state influence since President Vladimir Putin took office in 2000, non-governmental organisations are ...

LUKASHENKO TIGHTENS GRIP ON CRITICS 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, Belarus is widely regarded as one of the last remaining outposts of authoritarianism in Europe, ruled since 1994 by President Aleksander Lukashenko. ...

CPJ urges progress in tribal-area kidnapping probe, calls on ... 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, ...(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 19 December 2005 CPJ letter to Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf: The Committee to Protect ...

CPJ condemns government ban of critical radio station 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, New York, December 19, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the local Southeast Maluku government's order to shut down Radio Gelora Tavlul, a ...

Jailed journalist finally freed after bureaucratic obstruction 21 Dec 2005
IFEX, New York, December 16, 2005 - A Tajik journalist ordered released last month by the Supreme Court was finally freed today, a move welcomed by the Committee to ...

IFEX Members Spotlight Censorship in Democratic Republic of Congo ... Dec 14, 2005
AllAfrica.com, On International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2005, IFEX members in Africa used the occasion to focus attention on free expression abuses in Eritrea and the ...

IFEX MEMBERS MOURN VICTIMS OF PLANE CRASH Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, IFJ joined other IFEX members, including the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders ...

Journalist threatened again for reporting on the annulment of ... Dec 19, 2005
IFEX, ...(FLIP/IFEX) - On 2 October 2005, journalist Enrique Camargo announced that he had received threats after reporting on the Counsel of State's decision to annul ...

Police impede the work of a photojournalist, accost editor Dec 20, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 16 December 2005, photojournalist Eduardo Alves and editor Sérgio Marques were briefly detained by military police in Franca, São Paulo ...

Outcry for justice persists one year after journalist Deyda ... Dec 19, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has issued a new appeal to President Yahya Jammeh, on the eve of the first anniversary of journalist Deyda Hydara's ...

Journalist released after 48 hours in detention in Kasumbalesa Dec 20, 2005
IFEX, ...(JED/IFEX) - Dany Zahira Sefu, a journalist from RTD (Radiotélévision Deogracias) - a local NGO-owned station broadcast from Kasumbalesa, a town on the ...

IFEX NV Signs Memorandum of Understanding to Acquire Moore Clayton ... Dec 16, 2005
PR Newswire UK (press release), AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, December 16 /PRNewswire/ -- IFEX Innovation Finance & Equity Exchange NV ("IFEX NV") announces that it has signed a Memorandum of ...

Ad hoc announcement §15 WpHG Mergers & Acquisitions Dec 16, 2005
Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste, IFEX NV signs Memorandum of Understanding to acquire Moore Clayton & Co. IFEX ... company. The purchase price will be paid in shares of IFEX NV. ...

Honduras, Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru backsliding on access to ... Dec 20, 2005
IFEX, IAPA warns of a backslide in public access to information citing new laws in Honduras, Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru. Miami (December ...

Military searches newspaper office in Jaffna Dec 20, 2005
IFEX, Free Media Movement (FMM) is disturbed that government military personnel searched the editorial, administrative and press offices of the Tamil daily Namathu ...

ARTICLE 19 urges president to improve access to information Dec 20, 2005
IFEX, ARTICLE 19 would first like to congratulate you on your reelection to the Burkina Faso presidency on 13 November 2005. Reaffirmed ...

EFJ condemns proposed legislation on protection of sources Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, ...(FIJ/IFEX) ? The following is an abridged version of a 12 December 2005 media release by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), an IFJ affiliate: ...

Bomb explodes in journalist's house Dec 16, 2005
IFEX, ...(PPF/IFEX) - A bomb exploded in the house of a journalist in Wana, South Waziristan Agency, in Pakistan at 5:00 am (local time) on 16 December 2005. ...

State governor threatens and insults reporters Dec 15, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 13 December 2005, journalist Emy Martínez and photojournalist Johan Rojas, of the regional newspaper "El Nuevo Día", were threatened by the ...

Community radio station closed and heavily fined by government Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, ...(CERIGUA/IFEX) - At the beginning of December 2005, the telecommunications supervisory body (Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones, SIT) ordered the closure ...

News blackout imposed after police brutally put down ... Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Chinese authorities have imposed a news blackout after police brutally put down demonstrations in Dongzhou, a provincial village in south-eastern ...

Tuna, fruit producers to represent Region-12 in int’l trade fair Dec 11, 2005
Minda News, CITY – Region-12 will again tap tuna and fruit producers and processors for its participation in the 3rd International Food Exhibition (IFEX) Philippines to ...

Tuna, fruit producers to woo int'l market Dec 12, 2005
The Mandanao Daily Mirror, Region-12 will again tap tuna and fruit producers and processors for its participation in the 3rd International Food Exhi-bition (IFEX) Philippines to be held ...

Oxfam slams WTO terms for Pacific kingdom Dec 15, 2005
Pacific Media Watch, HONG KONG (Oxfam/IFEX/Pacific Media Watch): The tiny island Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific is about to make history. Tonga ...

Journalist dead after beating, death threats; another journalist ... Dec 19, 2005
IFEX, Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists to work, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), following ...

Play censored, artist's work altered for references to death ... Dec 7, 2005
IFEX, ...(SEAPA/IFEX) - Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) withheld a license from a local theatre group to stage a play about the execution of a drug ...

PEN observers describe "ugly and violent" scenes in Orhan Pamuk ... Dec 16, 2005
IFEX, ...(WiPC/IFEX) - On 16 December 2005, the Sisli No. 2 Court of First Instance in Istanbul announced that the hearing against Orhan ...

RSF concerned over "politicisation" of domain name administration Dec 15, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned censorship by the Kazakh government, which has removed the right to use the .kz suffix (equivalent to .uk ...

IPI concerned about legal actions aimed at intimidating "Polityka" ... Dec 19, 2005
IFEX, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, is concerned about recent legal actions ...

Writer detained for articles critical of Kurdish authorities Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, ...(WiPC/IFEX) - The WiPC of International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention and welfare of writer Kamal Sayid Qadir, an Iraqi Kurd with Austrian ...

JED staff receives anonymous death threats Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called for a concerted effort to establish who was responsible for the death threats made against the staff of ...

Government office alleges "mercenary" journalists are discrediting ... Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has alleged that five print journalists have been hired to write articles to discredit President ...

Radio journalist comes out of hiding following Somali government ... Dec 15, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the news that Awale Jama Salad, the editor of privately-owned radio STN FM, has been able to come out of ...

Printing press raided, newspaper's printing blocked by police Dec 15, 2005
IFEX, ...(PPF/IFEX) - Many daily newspapers in Karachi faced delays and problems because the police raided a printing press on 13 December 2005, on suspicion that it ...

Supreme Court opposes government ban of BBC Nepali Service Dec 9, 2005
IFEX, ...(CEHURDES/IFEX) - CEHURDES has welcomed an interim Supreme Court order directing the royal government to reverse a ban on the re-broadcasting of BBC Nepali ...

Arson attack causes serious damage to opposition weekly's press Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned an arson attack that seriously damaged the printing press of the pro-opposition weekly "Regar" on the ...

Television crews prevented from filming at polling stations Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Three television crews were prevented from covering the third round of voting in Egypt's parliamentary elections, which took place in nine ...

Opposition party taking state broadcaster to task for not airing ... Dec 9, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The main opposition party, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has threatened to take unspecified action against the state broadcaster, the Malawi ...

General confiscates reporter's camera Dec 9, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 28 November 2005, Carlos Colmenárez, a National Guard general and area director for security and public order for the state of Lara, western ...

Local newspaper's work being blocked by Chía mayor Dec 5, 2005
IFEX, ...(FLIP/IFEX) - The monthly "El Periódico de Chía", published in Chía, a town near the capital, Bogotá, has been subjected to a discredit campaign by Chía ...

Copies of opposition newspaper seized illegally by police Dec 8, 2005
IFEX, ...(Adil Soz/IFEX) - On 8 December 2005, Almaty police stopped a vehicle that was delivering copies of the opposition newspaper "Juma Times". ...

Secret service reverses licensing body's decision to register ANZ Dec 8, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - Zimbabwe's secret service allegedly reversed a decision by the government-controlled Media and Information Commission (MIC) to register ...

Attorney general announces intention to seek information on ... Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 22 November 2005, Attorney General Bruno Acioly announced his intention to file a new request at the beginning of December for the list of ...

Court orders arrest of two suspects in connection with radio ... Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(CMFR/IFEX) - A local court has ordered the arrest of two suspects in connection with the 3 July 2005 murder of radio commentator Rolando Morales in General ...

Weeks go by without news of arrested Kiem Street chat room users Dec 8, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has asked the Vietnamese authorities for information about three Internet users who were arrested at their home on ...

Editor of "Hetauda Sandesh" newspaper interrogated by regional ... Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(CEHURDES/IFEX) - CEHURDES condemns the harassment of Santosh Neupane, editor of "Hetauda Sandesh", a daily published from the southern town of Hetauda, by a ...

Call for action on one-year anniversary of radio broadcaster's ... Dec 8, 2005
IFEX, ...(CMFR/IFEX) - On the first-year anniversary commemoration of the murder of radio broadcaster Herson Hinolan, families and colleagues appealed to the government ...

Sahrawi websites censored throughout the country Dec 7, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the recent censorship of many websites supporting the Polisario Front's struggle for Sahrawi independence. ...

Photojournalist's murder may have been perpetrated by intelligence ... Dec 8, 2005
IFEX, ...(CMFR/IFEX) - The government's national security adviser Norberto Gonzales vowed on 9 November 2005 to broaden the investigation of photojournalist Gene Boyd ...

Pentagon propaganda campaign in Iraq media undermines press ethics ... Dec 16, 2005
IFEX, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives, is writing to express its concern at recent ...

Security agents raid private news production company Dec 16, 2005
IFEX, New York, December 15, 2005 - Zimbabwean police and intelligence agents today raided the independent news production company Voice of the People (VOP) in the ...

JED's annual report indicates worrying regression for press ... Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, In a report published on 9 December 2005 in Kinshasa to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, press freedom in the ...

Government urged to allow representatives of dissidents' support ... Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, Reporters Without Borders today called on the Cuban authorities to allow five representatives of the Women in White movement of wives and mothers of imprisoned ...

Serbian soldiers convicted in 1991 slaughter of civilians ... Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, New York, December 13, 2005 - The War Crimes Chamber of the district court in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, convicted 14 former soldiers Monday on charges of ...

IAPA, government reach agreement enabling investigation on ... Dec 16, 2005
IFEX, Bogotá, Colombia (December 15, 2005) - As the result of negotiations held under the auspices of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), IAPA ...

ARTICLE 19 calls on prime minister to respect freedom of ... Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, ARTICLE 19 is seriously concerned with the Central African Republic's (CAR) approach to the media and freedom of expression. The ...

Radio workers protest restructuring plan that threatens quality ... Dec 13, 2005
IFEX, December 13, 2005 - The Media Alliance and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) support the decision by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio ...

Proposed radio and television law amendments promote concentration ... Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, AMARC and the Mexican Commission for the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights (Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos) condemn the ...

São Paulo court orders "Folha de S. Paulo" newspaper to stop ... Dec 14, 2005
IFEX, New York, December 13, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the latest example of judicial censorship in Brazil, where a São Paulo court has ...

Reporters question new norms at courthouse Nov 21, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - Since 8 November 2005, journalists covering the news at the Palacio de Justicia in Caracas, the main courthouse and seat of the judiciary, are no ...

King sets example for Thai leaders, saying criticisms must be ... Dec 5, 2005
IFEX, ...(SEAPA/IFEX) - Speaking for the first time on political and free expression issues that had seen his name invoked by many opposing camps, Thailand's King ...

Thai prime minister drops defamation lawsuits against media tycoon Dec 7, 2005
IFEX, ...(SEAPA/IFEX) - On 6 December 2005 Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra dropped all defamation lawsuits against his staunch critic and founder of Manager ...

Over 50 journalists and media workers harassed, some beaten while ... Dec 9, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has accused the Egyptian authorities of waging a campaign of harassment against the press throughout the month-long ...

RSF calls for quick action on abduction of journalist Hayatullah ... Dec 9, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders and the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) have urged Pakistan's federal and local authorities to quickly identify who is ...

Journalists receive death threats from Islamist militant group Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(Media Watch/IFEX) On December 6 2005, the banned Islamist militant outfit Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) threatened to bomb the Chittagong Press Club (CPC ...

Government suspends two newspapers Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has suspended the opposition-aligned Kiswahili newspaper "Tanzania Daima" for three days for ...

Tunisia: Free Expression Protest Nov 18, 2005
AllAfrica.com, The 14 organisations are all members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of 64 national, regional and international ...

Journalist threatened by police chief, two others mistreated by ... Dec 5, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is concerned about the humiliating treatment to which journalists have been subjected by certain Entre Ríos provincial authorities, and is ...

Journalist's health deteriorates in forced labour, prison ... Dec 7, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - During a four-day visit to France by Chinese Prime Minister Wen, Reporters Without Borders has confirmed that journalist Shi Tao, who is serving a ...

Editor's defamation trial adjourned Dec 7, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - On December 5 2005, the Lusaka Magistrate's court adjourned to December 28 2005 the case concerning Fred M'membe, managing editor of Zambia's ...

Swapo Party Youth League calls for restriction of press freedoms Dec 8, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has called on the Namibian government to enact laws to rein in journalists who, the SPYL alleges, are abusing ...

Jailed magazine editor may face death penalty under fatwa Dec 6, 2005
IFEX, ...(WiPC/IFEX) - WiPC has learned that the Dar-ul-lfta, the council of religious scholars within the Supreme Court, has issued a fatwa against Ali Mohaqiq Nasab ...

Surge in political violence takes its toll on the press Dec 2, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced deep concern over a dramatic deterioration in the security situation in Bangladesh and its impact on the ...

Radio journalist shot dead; police arrest two suspects in Ramos ... Dec 2, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has expressed outrage at the shooting death of radio journalist George Benaojan on 1 December 2005, apparently by ...

Government threatens to close privately-owned radio stations Nov 25, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has protested to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after the country's privately-owned radio stations were threatened ...

Opposition newspaper suspended, another fined, four journalists ... Nov 28, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a climate of intimidation towards the press in Yemen in which closures of newspapers, summonses for ...

Government shuts down radio station, arrests general manager Dec 1, 2005
IFEX, ...(MRA/IFEX) - On 30 November 2005, a combined team of soldiers and policemen, apparently acting on the orders of the federal government, seized the Bayelsa State ...

Maoists harass, threaten media workers, steal equipment Dec 1, 2005
IFEX, ...(CEHURDES/IFEX) - The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES), a Kathmandu-based press freedom monitoring group, condemns the Maoist ...

Television news crew insulted by government supporters Nov 24, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 21 November 2005, a news crew from the television news channel Globovisión, led by journalist Gabriela Matute, was insulted and intimidated ...

Journalist assaulted during public hearing Nov 29, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 24 November 2005, Helen Michelet, a correspondent for "A Estância" newspaper and a member of an opposition politician's press department , in ...

Civil court dismisses former national police chief's defamation ... Dec 2, 2005
IFEX, ...(SEAPA/IFEX) - On 30 November 2005, Southern Bangkok's civil court dismissed a civil defamation lawsuit filed by a retired senior police officer against 17 ...

Journalists taking part in independent training workshop face ... Dec 5, 2005
IFEX, ...(RSF/IFEX) - RSF condemns a 22 November 2005 operation by government officials and progoverment groups in which intimidation and force were used to prevent ...

Journalist denied access to hospital Dec 2, 2005
IFEX, ...(IPYS/IFEX) - On 23 November 2005, the management of "Antonio Maria Pineda" Central Hospital denied access to the premises to journalist Liza Canelón of the ...

Kinshasa journalist arrested and jailed Nov 24, 2005
IFEX, ...(JED/IFEX) - On 24 November 2005, Michel Mukebayi Nkosso, publication director of the Kinshasa-based weekly "AfricaNews", was arrested and jailed on the orders ...

Ban on radio station lifted Nov 21, 2005
IFEX, ...(AFMF/IFEX) - On 18 November 2005, the Kenyan government lifted the ban it had imposed on Kass FM radio station, out of what it described as "humanitarian and ...

Editors' organization probes legality of Zuma's closed court Dec 9, 2005
IFEX, ...(MISA/IFEX) - The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) has been consulting editors and lawyers about the exclusion of the media from former deputy ...


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