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unusual facts about press freedom



2000s in Eritrea

Under Afewerki's rule, Eritrea has had one of the worst rates of press freedom in the world, and since 2007, the worst.

Solomon Abera

Solomon Abera (1968 - 1 December 2011) was an Eritrean journalist, press freedom advocate, and detractor of the Afewerki regime.


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1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing

Diệm claimed that the American media was seeking to bring him down and he introduced new restrictions on press freedom and political association.

Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2000

Special investigations editor of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and Director of the Colombian Press Freedom Foundation.

Freedom of the press

According to Reporters Without Borders, more than a third of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom.

Gelson Domingos da Silva

He was considered by the press freedom organizations to be a veteran and had previously worked at the Brazilian Television System, or Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT), and the Record.

Kantipur Publications

The proclamation of a state of emergency on November 26, 2001, by King Gyanendra under the direction of then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba suspended the press freedom guaranteed by the country’s Constitution a decade earlier.

Li Xiang

The IFJ has continually been pushing Meng Jianzhu, who is the Minister of the Security Bureau of China, to converse with the All-China Journalists Association to create a safety plan for media workers as well as to educate government officials and the general public on the need to respect press freedom.

Murder of José Luis Cerda Meléndez and Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo

There were news organizations that did not sign the agreement, such as Reforma and La Jornada, Proceso magazine and MVS (TV network), and Reporters Without Borders also refused to sign as it said the agreement went against its standards of press freedom.

P.M. News

After harassment by the Ibrahim Babangida regime, there was a brief period of press freedom under General Sani Abacha during which P.M. News was launched in August 1994 as a breezy afternoon paper strongly oriented towards news but also covering fashions, sports and entertainment.

Rami Jarrah

In 2012 Jarrah was awarded one of the International Press Freedom Award (IPFA) from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression for his coverage of the Syrian civil war.

Raymond Wacks

His major works include: The Protection of Privacy published in 1980 by Sweet & Maxwell, Personal Information: Privacy and the Law, published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, Privacy, a two-volume collection of essays published in 1993 by Dartmouth, London and New York University Press, and Privacy and Press Freedom published by Blackstone Press, London in 1995.

Siglo Veintiuno

In 1995, Zamora and the Siglo Veintiuno staff won International Press Freedom Awards from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which recognize courage in defending press freedom despite facing attacks, threats, or imprisonment.

Wali Khan Babar

On World Press Freedom Day, 2011, participants of a forum at the National Press Club and Newseum in Washington, D.C., called attention to world governments who licensed in order to punish news organizations that were critical of the government, as was the case for Pakistan that had used licensing to punish Geo News, for which Wali Khan had worked.