August 3, 2017 / by Susanna D’Aliesio, bjp-online.com Mathias Depardon was shooting for National Geographic in South East Turkey when he was taken for questioning by police – and held for 32 days in total When Mathias Depardon was released by the Turkish government on 09 June, he had been held in custody for 32 days.…
August 1, 2017 / byRock Ronald Rozario, lacroix.com The Arab crisis surrounding Qatar and the demands by the Saudi Arabia-led campaign to shut down its influential Al-Jazeera news agency shines a light on the growing threats to freedom of speech in the region. David Kaye, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and…
July 31, 2017 / By Paginasiete.bo Las afirmaciones de la ministra de Comunicación, Gísela López, en sentido de que “el Canal 7 es completamente plural” y de que “Página Siete no es plural” han provocado más de un comentario irónico entre los usuarios de redes sociales, ante la abundancia de evidencia de que la realidad…
July 21, 2017 / infomajadahonda.com Somos Majadahonda junto con Izquierda Unida presentan en el próximo Pleno Municipal de Majadahonda del mes de julio, una moción para la supresión del uso de la contratación menor en los servicios de la publicidad institucional del Ayuntamiento. “Desde Somos Majadahonda hemos observando como la publicidad institucional del Ayuntamiento de Majadahonda se repite año tras…
July 18, 2017 / By prnoticias.com ¿Son los medios de comunicación europeos verdaderamente independientes? Aunque aparentemente los países occidentalizados tienen presumen de su libertad de información un estudio encargado por la Unión Europea pone en cuestión esta afirmación. El documento, emitido por el Centro de Estudio de Política Europea bajo el nombre de Análisis comparativo…
July 31, 2017 / by Kweku Zurek, graphic.com Six GCGL newspaper brands; Daily Graphic, Junior Graphic, The Mirror, Graphic Showbiz, Graphic Sports and Graphic Business were assessed as part of the research. The GCGL maintained its status as the leading and largest newspaper publishing company in Ghana. The GCGL papers placed first, ahead of Western…
June 30, 2017 / by The Peninsula Qatar Geneva: H E Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Office and International Organizations in Geneva, met yesterday with Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The meeting discussed the flagrant violations of international…
June 29, 2017 / by Neena Gill, The Independent. Even though phone-hacking is now a dark part of its history, Murdoch’s media empire continues to churn out partisan and sometimes highly abusive content. One of the things that makes me proud to be British is our freedom to feel, think and say largely whatever we…
June 29, 2017 / by The Peninsula The reported demand, by a number of governments, to close the Al Jazeera Media Network in exchange for the lifting of sanctions would strike a major blow against media pluralism in a region already suffering from severe restrictions on reporting and media of all kinds, said the UN…
June 29, 2017 / by MENAFN US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Kuwait’s Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Sabah stressed ‘the need for all parties to exercise restraint to allow for productive diplomatic discussions’ in the GCC, the State Department said in a readout…
June 29, 2017 / by Mikhail Minakov, Opendemocracy Eastern Europe has become a source of short- and long-term risks for the entire European continent. Inter-state conflicts, authoritarianism and illiberalism seem to permanently dwell here and increase the threats to democracy in other parts of Europe. With the commence of the Russian-Ukrainian war and annexation of…
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye claimed this demand of the Saudi-led coalition against Qatar was a blow against media pluralism in the Middle East. June 29, 2017 / by The Wire Dubai: A United Nations expert and a media freedom watchdog on Wednesday criticised four Arab states for…
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