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China – Statement by the Liu Xiaobo Support Committee and Amnesty International France

Statement by the Liu Xiaobo Support Committee and Amnesty International France 18 April 2012 “Art against censorship in China” special event. Call for Liu Xiaobo’s release On the occasion of the April 17th evening’s “Art against censorship in China” special event at the Jeu de Paume national gallery in Paris, the human rights groups that form the Liu Xiaobo Support Committee, together with Amnesty International and well-known figures call on the Chinese authorities to free the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo , who has been jailed since December 2008 and who is serving an 11-year sentence. They also reaffirm their support for his wife, Liu Xia , who is currently under house arrest

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Kazakhstan – Kazkhstan

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Read in Russian / читать по-русски Казахстан 2012 Kazakhstan, which considers itself a regional model after holding the rotating presidency of

Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight on

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - This report, which presents the 2012 list of countries that are “Enemies of the Internet” and “under surveillance,” updates the report

Russia – Wave of attempts to intimidate independent media in run-up to presidential election

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by attempts to intimidate independent national media in recent days in Russia. “Whether the result

Reporters Without Borders writes to Google about new Blogger terms of service

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders wrote to Eric Schmidt, Executive chairman of Google, on 8 February to express its concern about recent changes

China – Questions about freedom of information will be relayed to Chinese vice-president 2/2

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders addressed the following open letter to Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping today, after asking Internet users yesterday to put

China – Questions about freedom of information will be relayed to Chinese vice-president

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders has questions to put to Xi Jinping, the Chinese vice-president who began a two-day visit to Washington today,

United States – Censored, prosecuted and on terror list, filmmaker denied First Amendment rights

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Filmmaker and environmentalist Josh Fox is to appear in court on 15 February on a charge of “unlawful entry” following his

Belarus – Partner organization targeted by state TV hate propaganda

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns a state TV attempt to smear the Minsk-based Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), a Reporters Without Borders

Russia – Office of opposition newspaper destroyed in firebomb attack

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the arson attack that ravaged the editorial offices of the weekly Vecherny Krasnokamsk in the Perm

United States – Reporters Without Borders to close its English-language site for 24 hours in protest against SOPA and…

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 a.m. EST tomorrow,

Iran – Death sentences and national Internet – escalating repression in Iran

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The Iranian government's constant repressive policies towards journalists and netizens are being steadily ratcheted up as part of a generalized increase

Russia – Vkontakte social network targeted by security services – RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Pavel Durov, the founder and director general of the Russian online social network Vkontakte, was summoned to the Saint Petersburg prosecutor's

Vietnam – Two citizen journalists jailed for illegally broadcasting to China -RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the sentencing today of two citizen radio journalists, Vu Duc Trung and his brother-in-law Le

United States – Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement – RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Sometimes they are arrested and then set free almost immediately. Sometimes they are arrested and, before being released, are charged with

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