RFE/RL has experienced targeted interference with its Azerbaijani language news programming to Azerbaijan, broadcast on the Turkish satellite Turksat, since April 28.
A media rights group has issued an urgent call for the release of Solijan Abdurakhmanov, an independent journalist from Uzbekistan's remote Karakalpakstan region who was imprisoned in 2008 on drug charges that are widely believed to be bogus.
RFE/RL has documented a pattern of disruption of its satellite news programming to Azerbaijan that could indicate a new level of deliberate interference, a practice known as jamming. The practice is a violation of international telecommunications regulations.
The BBC has joined other media organizations in condemning efforts by Iranian authorities to intimidate relatives of its Persian-language service reporters in advance of today's presidential elections.
Authorities in Iran have stepped up harassment of family members of Radio Farda journalists in an apparent effort to undermine one of the few independent news sources available to voters.
A new report documents Pakistan's 'perfect record of impunity,' citing the brutal fact that over 20 journalists have been murdered in the last decade, without a single conclusive investigation or successful conviction.
In a ruling that further imperils free speech inside the country, Azerbaijan's parliament has voted to criminalize online libel and 'abuse.'
RFE/RL has been unable to obtain current information about a Turkmen correspondent reportedly detained by local police in Turkmenabat.
Radio Svaboda journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich was warned Minsk's municipal prosecutor's office about violating Belarus' "Law on Mass Media."
Authorities in Turkmenistan, one of the world's most closed societies where RFE/RL is not officially recognized and has no local bureau, have detained a correspondent who, despite all odds, was reporting on important social issues for audiences eager for news.
On World Press Freedom Day, well-known Ukrainian journalist Mustafa Nayem talks about the "dual realities" that shape public perceptions in Ukraine: while a minority has access to independent and critical discussion on the Internet, a majority doesn't, and instead receives its information from state-supported major media and tv.
A "Risk List" of 10 countries where press freedom suffered the most in 2012 through "fatalities, impunity, imprisonment, censorship, restrictive laws, and exiled journalists" includes Russia, Pakistan and Iran, all in RFE/RL's broadcast region.
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