OSCE, Vienna, 15 Jun 2010 – Despite amendments, Armenia’s new Law on Television and Radio fails to promote broadcast pluralism in the digital era, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, said today.

The law, adopted by Parliament on 10 June, would need a presidential signature to take effect. Read more…

New York, CPJ, 02.06.2010 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is very concerned that Armenian authorities are detaining Ani Gevorgian, a journalist for the pro-opposition daily Haykakan Zhanamak, after she was arrested on assignment on Monday. Read more…

JNews, Yerevan, 31.05.2010 - Journalist of “Armenian Times” daily Ani Gevorgian was arrested late on Monday, after being taken to the police department with a group of opposition suppoerters who tried to stage a protest action in Yerevan’s Liberty square. Read more…

UAA, Washington, 27.04.2010 – On April 24, Chinese state media announced that 57-year-old Zhang Chunxian, formerly the Communist Party Secretary of Hunan Province, had been appointed to the post of Party Secretary for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), replacing 65-year-old Wang Lequan, who has been made deputy secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee. Read more…

Baku, OSCE, 19 Apr 2010 – A two-day seminar by the OSCE Office in Baku and the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on government-media relations in a democratic society started today.

The seminar will look into the domestic and international legal aspects of freedom of information and freedom of expression, including best practices in successfully managing government-media relations. Read more…

OSCE, Warsaw, 08 March 2010 – The conduct of the trials that took place in the aftermath of the March 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan reveals shortcomings in Armenia’s justice system, concludes a report published today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Read more…

OSCE, Yerevan, 03 Mar 2010 – A compilation of articles discussing violence, intimidation and legal cases against journalists in 2008-2009 in Armenia, published with support from the OSCE Office in Yerevan, was presented today. Read more…

Washington, UAA, 02 Mar 2010 – Although the use of the term “Chinese Muslim” to describe Uyghurs has decreased somewhat in recent months as the international community has gained a better understanding of Uyghurs’ identity and the oppression they face, the Uyghur American Association (UAA) remains concerned about the still frequent use of the term in the international media. Read more…

On February 24, the photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan was beaten up right in front of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office.

The journalist told NEWS.am that a man attacked him as he was trying to take pictures of the officers. The attacker was insulting the journalist and hitting him in the face and other parts of the body. Read more…

OSCE, Vienna, 2 Feb 2010 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said today that he was deeply concerned by the continuing harassment of journalists in Uzbekistan. Read more…

Uznews, Tashkent, 29 Jan 2010 – Investigator Nodir Ahmadjanov has rejected photographer and documentary filmmaker Umida Ahmedova and her lawyer’s motion to question experts who concluded three weeks ago that her photo album “Women and Men: from Dawn to Dusk” and documentary “Burden of Virginity” defamed the Uzbek people. Read more…

Cell phone users detained, punished for sending “harmful” text messages

UAA, Washington, 27 Jan 2010 – The Uyghur American Association (UAA) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the issuance on January 25 of four new death sentences to Uyghurs in connection with unrest that took place in July 2009 in Urumchi, the regional capital of East Turkestan. Read more…

WPFC, Washington, 19 Jan 2010 — The World Press Freedom Committee — an organization representing 45 press freedom groups from throughout the world — condemns the seven-year prison sentence handed down today against Armenian journalist Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the country’s leading newspaper, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times), who was arrested on July 1 after he voluntarily came out of hiding. Read more…