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Russia – Government eager to use Net surveillance software currently in test phase — RSF

Reporters Without Borders condemns plans by Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal supervisory agency for communications, information technology and mass media, to use search software to track down “extremist” content on the Internet. The agency is currently testing the software and intends to start using it in December. When Roskomnadzor’s software, using very vague criteria, decides that a website has “extremist” content, the site will be given three days to remove it

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China – Beijing court throws out appeal by jailed cyber-dissident Wang Lihong — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders deplores the rejection on 20 October by a Beijing court of the appeal by cyber-dissident Wang Lihong (

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Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia — Voice of America journalists already penalized — BBG Watch

BBG Watch -- As the trial of two Swedish journalists gets underway in Ethiopia, it is worth remembering that a Voice of America journalist David Arnold was dismissed

Ethiopia – Outcome already decided in trial of Swedish journalists? — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders will pay close attention to the trial of Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson , which is

United States – Reporters arrested, roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The often violent response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign that is growing in the United States and elsewhere is affecting

Tajikistan – Two journalists convicted but free men after trials

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Two journalists were free men today at the end of separate trials in the northwestern city of Khujand which Reporters Without

Russia – Call for more effort, more vigilance five years after Politkovskaya murder — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The failure to solve Anna Politkovskaya 's murder in the five years since her death casts a long shadow that threatens

China – Liu Xiaobo, last year’s Nobel peace laureate, still in prison — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - In the wake of today's announcement that this year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to Liberian President Ellen Johnson

Tajikistan – Prosecutor requests 14 years for reporter who criticized local officials — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the case that the state prosecutor in Asht, in the northern province of Sugd, presented

China – Chinese arrest South Korean journalists near North Korean border — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is worried to learn that the Chinese authorities are holding a group of journalists from the South Korean

China – Activists attacked while trying to visit human rights lawyer under house arrest — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Five human rights activists and netizens were attacked by presumed police auxiliaries on the night of 18 September while trying to

China – Journalist murdered while covering illegal cooking oil scandal

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Li Xiang , a journalist with Luoyang Television in Luoyang (in the eastern

Iran – Regime continues to wage its war against foreign media — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government's targeting of the BBC's Farsi-language TV station, BBC Persian.

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Iran – Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2011) — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - 12.09.2011-Two journalists freed but a dozen netizens and journalists arrested Two journalists have been released in the past week but a

Journalist’s relatives beaten, home attacked with excavator — RSF

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The severe beating of members of journalist Idrak Abbasov 's family and the partial destruction of their home in a Baku

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