CPJ/IFEX, New York, 15.03.2011 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by Armenia’s refusal to allow four reporters with the Finnish public broadcaster YLE to enter the country, and called on the authorities today to allow the journalists to resume their work in Armenia. Read more…

Azerbaijan IPI National Committee to Run Selection Process

Vienna, IPI, 07.03.2011 – The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced that it is accepting nominations for this year’s IPI Free Media Pioneer award.

The IPI Free Media Pioneer award was established in 1996 to honour media organizations that have fought to ensure freer and more independent media in their country. Read more…

Washington, UAA, 01.03.2011 – Amidst harsh Chinese security measures to stamp out even the smallest sign of dissent in major Chinese cities, and as Chinese citizens have called for a pro-democracy “Jasmine Revolution”, authorities in East Turkestan have acted forcefully to clamp down on Uyghurs and preempt any possible unrest. Read more…

Washington, UAA, 23 Feb 2011 – The Uyghur American Association (UAA) is extremely concerned about reports that four men with Uyghur names have been sentenced to death in East Turkestan. Courts in Aksu, Hotan and Kumul (Chinese: Hami) sentenced Turhun Turdi, Abdulla Tunyaz, Ahunniyaz Nur, and Abdukerim Abdurahman to death for their alleged roles in three separate incidents that took place between August and November 2010. Read more…

Washington, UAA, 10.01.2011 – Recent media reports have shed light on harsh sentences related to July 5, 2009 unrest in the city of Urumchi that are in line with Chinese officials’ aggressive campaign to silence and intimidate Uyghur voices. Read more…

Authorities Deny License for Critical Voice Despite Court Judgment

HRW, New York, 16 Dec 2010 – Armenia has denied a broadcast license to an independent television station, A1+, despite a European Court of Human Rights judgment that previous denials violated freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more…

CPJ, New York, 16.12.2010 – The Committee to Protect Journalists today denounced the imprisonment in northern Tajikistan of Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, a reporter with the Dushanbe-based independent weekly Nuri Zindagi. Ismoilov was arrested in Sogd region on November 23, but the regional press first reported on the case on Monday. Read more…

CPJ, New York, 02.12.2010 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about reports that Nikol Pashinian, an opposition activist and editor-in-chief of the independent daily Haykakan Zhamanak, was beaten in custody and moved into solitary confinement. Read more…

Washington, UAA, 15.11.2010 – As Chinese officials in East Turkestan intensify a campaign to rid the region’s schools of Uyghur language instruction under the rubric of a “bilingual education” (Chinese: 双语教育) policy, Uyghur students, parents and teachers have expressed anger over the implementation of the policy. Read more…

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…