Tag: Press Freedom
Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression
Report from IFEX
By Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Journalists have been killed in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan in separate incidents that took place in January...
RSF urges Indonesia to lift Papua ban on French journalist
Video: Human Rights Watch
Report by Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Indonesian government’s refusal to let French journalist Cyril Payen visit Indonesia...
Inside West Papua – behind the Native Affairs exclusive report
Report by Pacific Media Watch
Māori Television’s Native Affairs story on West Papua is the first by a New Zealand television crew allowed into the...
RSF cheekily climbing the barricades
From Pacific Journalism Review
Reviewed by David Robie
Saving Independent Journalism: 30 Years Defending Media (39pp); Hostile Climate of Environmental Journalists (27pp). 2015. Paris, France: Reporters...
PNG media council warns media crackdown may lead to censorship
Report by Pacific Media Watch in Port Moresby
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea has expressed grave concerns at plans by the government to...
Indonesian law outlawing presidential insults unlikely to pass, say analysts
Report by Pacific Media Centre
A draft Indonesian Criminal Code amendment, condemed by critics as undermining freedom of speech, is interpreted to mean that burning...
