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"We want to defend those civil liberties, we want to defend press freedom, and we want to see the freedom of Julian Assange. Free Julian Assange!" says Tim Dawson, the Deputy General Secretary of the Interantional Federation of Journalists (IFJ), addressing Assange supporters outside court on day two of the WikiLeaks founder's hearing. SOUNDBITE
Jennifer Robinson, lawyer for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, calls the British government's approval of Assange's extradition to the United States "a grave threat to freedom of speech, not just for Julian but for every journalist and editor and media worker in this country." Assange faces trial in the US over the publication of secret files relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. SOUNDBITE
Tegucigalpa, Oct 18 (EFE).- The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) held a virtual forum Monday with Honduran journalists to discuss the important role of media as a social auditor of public investment made in Central America."We are concerned about the issue of freedom of the press as sometimes there are governments that are not very democratic. The independent auditing role of press is vital for CABEI," said the president of the CABEI, Dante Mossi. (Camera: RAMÓN HERNÁNDEZ). SHOT LIST: JOURNALISTS JOIN "THE MEDIA IN CENTRAL AMERICA: CURRENT SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVE" FORUM IN TEGUCIGALPA, HONDRUAS.
Dhaka, May 19 (EFE/EPA).- Bangladeshi journalists protested for the second day on Wednesday, demanding the release of a female investigative reporter arrested on charges of stealing confidential government documents.A Dhaka court sent journalist Rozina Islam, 42, a senior reporter with Prothom Alo newspaper, one of the largest circulated in the country, to judicial custody on Tuesday after police charged her with a colonial-era law, the Official Secrets Act.The court will hear her bail application on Thursday. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM). SHOT LIST: A PROTEST DEMANDING THE RELEASE OF DETAINED JOURNALIST ROZINA ISLAM, IN DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
Paris, Apr 20 (EFE).-Journalism is "completely or partly blocked" in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed for the World Press Freedom Index, the annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday. (Camera: MARIO GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE RSF OFFICE IN PARIS, WITH A WORLD MAP OF PRESS FREEDOM IN 2021.SOUND BITES: SECRETARY GENERAL OF REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE (IN FRENCH).TRANSLATIONS:1. "At a time when disinformation, rumors, invitations to hatred spread through social networks, at a time when journalism is the best vaccine against these evils, in 73% of countries, this vaccine is blocked. "2. "The closure of access to journalists, which has become a daily thing. For legitimate or non-legitimate reasons, journalists are deprived of the access they had before. Access to the land, to sources, because it is not always possible carry out investigative journalism by videoconference. "3. "Unfortunately, this closure corresponds to a historical evolution, to a greater weight of public relations and communication services. Some take advantage of having a means of closing the doors to journalists to increase their communication and close in themselves. That would be very harmful, because it would favor institutional communication to the detriment of independent journalistic information. "4. "Latin America in general and South America in particular is the continent where there has been the greatest degradation of press freedom this year, especially because of Covid. It is a continent where several heads of state, Maduro in Velezuela, Bolsonaro in Brazil, have spread false information, including information about the pandemic and how to treat it and have accused journalists of spreading false information."
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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