Media Alert
November 3, 2009
Speech and Internet advocates in Thailand are questioning why the Thai police invoked the Computer Crimes Act in going after two Thais accused of...
November 3, 2009
| Source: Mizzima
Two Burmese journalists who are also active members of a disaster relief organization were arrested recently. Freelance journalist Pai Soe Oo was...
October 28, 2009
A number of members of a Cyclone Nargis volunteer group, ‘Lin Let Kye’, including freelance journalist Pai Soe Oo were arrested from Dagon Seikkan,...
October 22, 2009
| Source: CIJ
The following is a statement from the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), a SEAPA partner based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Malaysia's press...
October 21, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A photojournalist was detained and interrogated at the house of Iloilo Gov. Niel Tupas Sr. on 16 October 2009 for "taking photos of the house without...
October 13, 2009
The Singapore Appeals Court upheld on 7 October 2009 an earlier ruling that the "Far Eastern Economic Review" magazine and its editor Hugo Restall...
September 30, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A Philippine legislator, one of the sons of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has called for a tighter regulation over the content of the social...
September 29, 2009
Several civil society groups in Cambodia are planning to organize a media defense network that would provide legal aid to journalists, media reports...
September 24, 2009
A Cambodian court found two journalists guilty of defamation on 22 September 2009 for publishing an article in which an opposition lawmaker...
September 23, 2009
The Philippine Supreme Court approved on 10 August 2009 the change of venue of the trial of the suspects in the attempted murder of a Cagayan de Oro...
September 23, 2009
The Censor Board has banned media coverage of the press conference held by newly formed political party, Democratic Party, Chairman, Thu Wei and Win...
September 22, 2009
| Source: Mizzima
Four Burmese journalists were among the 7,114 political prisoners released by the military regime on 18 September 2009. Released were reporter Eint...
September 17, 2009
| Source: AJI
The Allansi Jurnalis Independen (Alliance of Independent Journalists or AJI) and ARTICLE 19 jointly hosted a regional launch of the Camden Principles...
September 16, 2009
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for a review of the controversial state secrecy bill on 15 September 2009, saying that the law...
September 16, 2009
The venue of the case against the alleged masterminds in the killing of Sultan Kudarat-based journalist Marlene Esperat has been transferred to...