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Seizure of weekly’s property and bank accounts slammed as a form of “Indirect censorship”
Published on 8 September 2008Read
Dismay at presidential green light for two restrictive articles in new criminal code
Published on 23 March 2007Read
President Torrijos urged to veto two articles in newly-amended criminal code
Published on 12 March 2007 Read
Press freedom threatened by law reform
Published on 9 February 2007 Read
100 journalists protest against bill to stiffen penalties for press offences
Published on 21 June 2006 Read
Newspaper fires two journalists for refusing to name source
Published on 17 November 2005 Read
Court sets worrying precedent by sequestering salary of journalist in libel suit
Published on 18 August 2005 Read
New president urged to repeal laws restricting press freedom
Published on 2 September 2004 Read
Cuba - 17 March 2010
President Lula told action on Cuba should no longer be Latin American taboo as Havana continues to crack down
Honduras - 16 March 2010
Third journalist gunned down in two weeks
Venezuela - 15 March 2010
False posts cannot be used to justify arbitrary control over the Internet
Media ordeal blamed on escalating security offensive and cumbersome bureaucracy
No surrender by independent journalists, five years on from “black spring”
Closure of Radio Caracas Televisión consolidates media hegemony
Miguel Galván Gutiérrez
Miguel Galván Gutiérrez was arrested in March 2003 during an unprecedented crackdown launched by the Cuban government and sentenced to 26 years in prison after being found guilty of being a "mercenary in the service of a foreign power".
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