Some press gains are reported in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan but the Color Revolutions have yet to deliver lasting reforms.
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New York, September 8, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores Lithuanian security agents’ seizure of all 15,000 copies of the semimonthly Laisvas Laikrastis (Free Newspaper), which was due out today with a story about alleged political corruption. Government agents, who said the story contained classified information, also briefly detained Editor Aurimas Drizius on Thursday.
About 10 plainclothes agents took Drizius to the Department of State Security headquarters for interrogation, the editor told CPJ today. Agents searched the Laisvas Laikrastis newsroom in the capital, Vilnius, and the editor’s home, confiscating the hard drives of all six newsroom computers and Drizius’ home computer.
About 10 plainclothes agents took Drizius to the Department of State Security headquarters for interrogation, the editor told CPJ today. Agents searched the Laisvas Laikrastis newsroom in the capital, Vilnius, and the editor’s home, confiscating the hard drives of all six newsroom computers and Drizius’ home computer.
Attacks on the Press
| Azerbaijan, Belarus, Central Asia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Free Expression Takes a Back Seat
By Alex Lupis
To gain military footing and access to energy resources in the former Soviet empire, the United States has diverted its attention from human rights and press freedom issues in Eurasia. The U.S. policy of close cooperation with the region's authoritarian leaders has undermined free and independent reporting in several Eurasian nations--from Russia, where coverage of the Chechen rebels is itself likened to terrorism, to Kazakhstan, where the government has waged a vast campaign to censor critical news reporting.
Attacks on the Press
| Burma, Burundi, Central Asia, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lithuania, OSCE, Philippines, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Vietnam
by Ann Cooper
With its myriad dangers and devastating death toll, Iraq remained the worst place to practice journalism throughout 2004, and one of the most dangerous media assignments in recent history. Twenty-three journalists and 16 media support workers were killed on the job in Iraq during the year. An insurgent kidnapping campaign also posed severe threats--at least 22 journalists were abducted, and one of them was executed by his captors.
New York, October 1, 2003—The Second District Court in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius yesterday ruled that the State Security Department overstepped its authority when it shuttered the pro-independence Chechen Web site KavkazCenter on June 20.
The State Security Department disconnected and confiscated KavkazCenter's server at the private Vilnius-based Internet provider Elneta on June 20 because the Web site was allegedly spreading "terrorist propaganda," according to local and international press reports.
The State Security Department disconnected and confiscated KavkazCenter's server at the private Vilnius-based Internet provider Elneta on June 20 because the Web site was allegedly spreading "terrorist propaganda," according to local and international press reports.
New York, September 18, 2003—Lithuanian border guards detained and expelled a film crew from the independent, Moscow-based national television station NTV on Sunday, September 14, after they filmed a protest on a train near the Lithuanian-Russian border.
According to Russian and Lithuanian press reports, NTV journalist Vadim Fefilov, cameraman Vladimir Chervyakov, and sound technician Aleksey Zolotov arrived at the Kena border post in Lithuania at about 10 a.m. on September 14 on a train heading from Moscow to Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania.
With his sights set firmly on integration
with Russia, President Alexander Lukashenko has intensified his efforts
to stifle the independent and opposition media in Belarus. In the days
surrounding the April 2 signing in Moscow of the second treaty on
integration with Russia in two years, Lukashenko reached new heights,
even by his own standards, in his campaign to silence critics and
intimidate j
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