Fear kills news in the Valle del Cauca
Fear kills off the news in the Valle del Cauca
Reporters Without Borders and four other press freedom groups went on a joint fact-finding commission to investigate two years of attacks on press freedom in the Valle del Cauca province of southeastern Colombia from 13 to 16 July 2005.
The murder of two journalists in the space of a few months in 2004 and then threats to at least four others showed how vulnerable the region’s media workers are. The right to be informed has been undermined and little news has appeared in local media about the situation in Valle del Cauca, even though armed groups are fiercely fighting each other there and the area is plagued by violence linked to drug trafficking.
Read the entire IFEX report here: Link
List of major newspapers in Colombia
Another disturbing report from Reporters Without Borders:
“You have no rights here, but welcome to Tunisia !”: Direct link to pdf. 
List of major newspapers in Tunesia
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[…] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it was outraged after the Tunisian authorities turned back its Secretary General Robert Ménard on his arrival in Tunis to attend the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Plain clothes Tunisian police officers yesterday physically prevented Ménard from leaving an Air France plane after it touched down in Tunis, while another police officer filmed the incident without permission from the Air France crew. The plane?s captain told Ménard to stay on board and issued him with a return ticket on the same aircraft. Executive director of the WSIS, Charles Geiger, had said in a statement on 16 November that Robert Ménard was not welcome at the summit, although his office had given him accreditation. He referred to a claim made by the Tunisian authorities that an official complaint had been laid against Ménard in Tunisia. Geiger admitted that he had not confirmed the existence of the complaint. Moreover, the president of the Tunisian bar told RSF?s lawyer that he was unaware of any such complaint. […]
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