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Algeria seeks 18 months jail for journalist for defamation
The court in Sidi M hamed on Monday sought 18 months in jail for Setouane, who has been in custody since October 20.
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ALGIERS: Prosecutors in Algeria are seeking an 18-month prison sentence for a journalist on charges including defamation, a penalty Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has slammed as disproportionate .
The communications ministry has accused Abdelhakim Setouane, editor-in-chief of Arabic-language news site Essafir Broadcast, of defamation , invasion of privacy , journalistic blackmail and publishing malicious information .
The accusations stem from an article alleging the speaker of the lower house of parliament was having an extra-marital affair, the media rights group said Monday.
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New Delhi: A panel set up by the Narendra Modi government last year to improve India’s ranking in the World Press Freedom Index has recommended drafting a communication strategy to highlight the positive aspects and publicise reforms to enhance press freedom in the country.
The panel has also said the government must engage with international media ranking agencies.
It added that the methodology adopted by Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders or RSF) to measure press freedom lacks transparency, and also identified a “Western bias” and “selection of parameters” as key concerns with the RSF’s index.
Vietnam has announced its
candidacy to join the UN Human Rights Council, basing its case mostly on the country’s
successful containment of COVID-19. However, when it comes to Vietnam’s own human rights
record, the government has done everything to curtail people’s fundamental
civil and political rights.
Vietnam has announced its bid to join the
UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the body’s 2023-2025 term.
The country’s foreign minister, Pham
Binh Minh, justified the application by saying that people’s freedom can only be
safeguarded if a country defends itself against pandemics like that of COVID-19.