Three more independent reporters arrested in Vietnam
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A sticker of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) 13th National Congress is seen on the back of a journalist’s computer monitor, Hanoi, Vietnam, 26 January 2021, MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images Independent journalists Nguyen Thanh Nha, Doan Kien Giang, and Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao were arrested after denouncing abuses by two recently promoted senior officials in Vietnam.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 22 April 2021.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of three Vietnamese journalists who were arrested this week after denouncing abuses by two senior officials, and urges the authorities to stop hounding journalists trying to provide their fellow-citizens with independent reporting.
Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment of “overly critical” journalists who are often subjected to intimidation or even imprisonment.
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog has criticised many governments in the Asia-Pacific region for censorship and disinformation that has worsened since the start of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic last year.
“On the one hand, governments use innovative practices often derived from marketing to impose their own narrative within the mainstream media, whose publishers are from the same elite as the politicians,” says RSF.
“On the other, politicians and activists wage a merciless war on several fronts against reporters and media outlets that don’t toe the official line.”
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BJP President JP Nadda (c) greets former Congress MLAs from Manipur after they join the BJP, in New Delhi, India, 19 August 2020, Mohd Zakir/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Reporters Without Borders (RSF) looks closer into the rising cases of press freedom violations in Manipur state, located in northeast India.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 3 March 2021.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is zooming in today on Manipur, a small state in northeastern India where press freedom violations are on the rise and where journalists are increasingly being persecuted by the local government, parliament and judiciary. RSF calls on the local authorities to stop trying to intimidate reporters.
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Bangladeshi journalist killed while covering clashes between ruling party factions
Borhan Uddin Muzakkir was shot and killed while covering fighting between rival factions of the ruling Awami League party.
On February 19, Bangladeshi journalist Borhan Uddin Muzakkir, a reporter for the Bangla Samachar daily newspaper and the Bartabazar.com news website, was shot and killed while covering clashes between rival factions of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League in Companiganj, 200 km southeast of Dhaka. Muzakkir sustained a gunshot injury to the neck. He succumbed to the injuries the following day.
“It is completely unacceptable for Borhan Muzakkir to have been the collateral victim of political tension within the Awami League,” said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk. “We urge the Companiganj police to make every effort to identify the person or persons responsible for this fatal shooting and bring them to justice. Bastard also called on Awami League gene