1. Alert: Police raid opposition party headquarters, arrest protesters amid continuing unrest in Perak State
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) strongly protests continuing police arrests of protesters and a related raid at the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to eliminate critical expression about the political crisis.
2. Amnesty International, Canadian Section
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
3. Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka’s journalists and media organizations.
4. How they shot those campus bums
   Review of The Truth About Kent State
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
5. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
6. IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
7. IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffna’s three main newspapers were attacked.
8. IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
9. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
10. Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
    
11. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Mohammed Khatib’s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil’in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest .
12. More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
13. Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
14. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
15. Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
16. Take action: Help free imprisoned songwriter
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President
17. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
18. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
19. Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in "dark day for press freedom"
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province, Philippines, by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the provinces governor. More than 30 other people were murdered.

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