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Attacks on the Press 2010: Armenia

Top Developments • New broadcast law gives regulators broad powers to revoke TV licenses. • Gala TV, a rare critical broadcaster, faces array of government pressures.

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Attacks on the Press 2010: Kazakhstan

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Top Developments
• New laws restrict online news media, shield government officials from scrutiny.
• OSCE chairman Kazakhstan undermines organization

Attacks on the Press 2010: Kyrgyzstan

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Top Developments
• Bakiyev censors news media in a failed attempt to hold power.
• Amid ethnic clashes, Uzbek

Attacks on the Press 2010: Uzbekistan

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

Top Developments
• State deploys analysts to build sweeping criminal defamation cases.
• Numerous regional and international news websites

Attacks on the Press 2010: Ukraine

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Top Developments
• Provincial reporters targeted in a series of attacks; editor reported missing.
• Television journalists continue to face

Attacks on the Press 2010: Belarus

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

Top Developments
• Authorities wage post-election crackdown, raiding newsrooms and jailing reporters.
• New Internet law requires registration of sites,

Andrzej Poczobut sentenced to prison in Belarus

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New York, February 11, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's imprisonment in Minsk of Andrzej Poczobut, a Grodno correspondent for

EU should press Uzbekistan on news media crisis

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Dear President Barroso: We're writing in advance of your January 24 meeting in Brussels with Uzbek President Islam Karimov to urge

In Belarus, more newsroom raids as crackdown continues

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - New York, December 29, 2010--Belarusian authorities continued their massive crackdown on critical news media on Tuesday as security agents raided offices

Widespread Net disruption surrounds Belarus election coverage | The Committee to Protect Journalists

The extent of the widespread press crackdown in Minsk is still being measured, but I've been reading reports from within Belarus that spell out the drastic Internet side

China and Iran hold half of the world’s jailed journalists

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): With 145 reporters, editors, and photojournalists behind bars on December 1 st , the number of journalists

Armenia – Imprisoned activist and editor attacked, placed in strict-regime jail

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: "We are concerned about reports that Nikol Pashinian was abused in retaliation for his critical commentary on prison conditions," said CPJ.

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Journalists arrested at U.S. ‘School of the Americas’ protest

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New York, November 23, 2010--Two journalists from the Moscow-based broadcast outlet Russia Today were arrested on November 20 while covering a

Mayor Strelchenko, drop your cruel complaint

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Dear Mayor Strelchenko: While leading a delegation to Moscow from the Committee to Protect Journalists in late September, I had the

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Russia pledges to pursue journalist murder probes | Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Moscow, September 30, 2010--Top Russian investigators have pledged to pursue 19 cases of murdered journalists. The Committee to

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