Media Alert
March 23, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A Filipino radio broadcaster allegedly received a message through his mobile phone on 16 March 2009 threatening him for his supposedly biased...
March 23, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A Filipino radio reporter and a television cameraman were released on 16 March 2009 after nearly 12 hours of detention in a police station in Batasan...
March 10, 2009
| Source: Mizzima News
The media in Burma are alarmed at the plan of the junta's Press Scrutiny and Registration Board—better known as the Censors' Board—to censor the...
March 10, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A Filipino legislator allegedly threatened on air a "block-time" radio broadcaster from Davao del Sur province on 1 March 2009. Digos City-based...
March 7, 2009
| Source: SEAPA
Officers from the Royal Thai Police arrested Prachatai website moderator Chiranuch Premchaiporn after raiding the independent website’s office on...
March 6, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A radio broadcaster who leases airtime said he survived a slay attempt on 28 February 2009 in the Philippines. Radio “blocktimer” Ronaldo Doong said...
March 6, 2009
| Source: SEAPA
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva turned down on March 5 an international call for the reform of lese majeste law but hinted some amendment to...
March 6, 2009
| Source: CMFR
The Court of Appeals (CA) in Manila denied for "lack of merit" the motion for reconsideration presidential spouse Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo had filed...
March 4, 2009
| Source: CIJ
Police reports, bullets in the mail, angry protests and police interrogations. These are threats that have been expressed and carried out against...
February 27, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A Filipino reporter-columnist said the mayor of Lumban town, Laguna province, threatened him on 22 February 2009. The mayor has denied making the...
February 27, 2009
| Source: Mizzima News
Organizers of the "Tawphayalay Aung Zay Memorial" literary awards were forced to change its venue on 24 February after Burmese authorities refused...
February 24, 2009
| Source: CMFR
Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s sponsorship of the Senate version of the Right of Reply bill has moved some media colleagues to assume absence of...
February 24, 2009
| Source: Mizzima News
A Rangoon court on 19 February slashed eight and a half years off the 20-year prison term of detained blogger Nay Phone Latt. Aye Aye Than, mother of...
February 22, 2009
Australian author Harry Nicolaides, who had been imprisoned in Thailand for lese majeste, was granted a royal pardon on 19 February, media reports...
February 19, 2009
| Source: CMFR
A judge in the Philippines lifted on 12 February 2009 the warrant of arrest he himself had issued against the alleged killers of radio broadcaster...