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Committee to Protect Journalists
East Timor
Attacks on the Press
| Australia, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Taiwan, Vietnam
August 4, 2007
Posted September 28, 2007
Posted September 28, 2007
Suara Timor Lorosa'e
ATTACKED
On August 4, amid rising political tensions surrounding the formation of a new government, unidentified men attacked the office of the country's leading daily, Suara Timor Lorosa'e (STL), according to the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA).
Attacks on the Press
| Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore, Vietnam
Attacks & Developments Throughout the Region
Attacks and developments throughout the region
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists urges you to refrain from signing a bill before you that threatens freedom of the press and free expression by imposing harsh penalties for defamation. As you know, Prime Minister Mari bim Altakiri approved on December 6, 2005, a bill revising the penal code, which had been passed by the National Parliament. The penal code revisions now before you allow for up to three years imprisonment and unlimited fines for publishing statements deemed defamatory of public officials.
FEBRUARY 3, 2005
Posted: March 30, 2005
Suara Timor LorosaeHARASSED
The East Timor government repeatedly harassed Suara Timor Lorosae, apparently in retaliation for the daily newspaper's reporting on famine.
Posted: March 30, 2005
Suara Timor LorosaeHARASSED
The East Timor government repeatedly harassed Suara Timor Lorosae, apparently in retaliation for the daily newspaper's reporting on famine.
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Indonesian military hems in press on Aceh citizens By A. Lin Neumann The Asian Times Online |
Borrowing a page from the U.S. playbook, the Indonesian military is restricting and controlling coverage of their war in the restive province of Aceh.
Attacks on the Press
| Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
The vicious murder of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan focused international attention on
the dangers faced by journalists covering the U.S. "war on terror," yet
most attacks on journalists in Asia happened far from the eyes of the
international press. In countries such as Bangladesh and the
Philippines, reporters covering crime and political corruption were as
vulnerable to attack as those reporting on violent insurgency. Seven
journalists were killed in 2002 for their work in Asia.
A decades-long struggle for independence ended on
May 20, when the U.N. Transitional Authority for East Timor (UNTAET)
formally handed power to East Timor's first elected government, making
the tiny half-island state the first new nation of the millennium. A
fledgling press has emerged from the destruction that followed the
territory's vote for independence from Indonesia in 1999, and now the
country has two daily newspapers, a handful of weeklies, and seven
small private radio stations. Indonesia, which annexed East Timor in
1975 following the collapse of Portuguese colonial rule, did not
tolerate an independent press.
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