[governance] global events in non-democratic countries

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

In Jordan, and in order to tighten up what the media publishes, the
government started with censoring the Internet, and then a couple of days
later they try to pass a law with the speed of light restricting the media
from publishing flaws of the government, or writing negatively about the
ruling family of Jordan.

It was obvious for many of us that Internet censorship was the first
building block of regulating media freedom of expression online.

Fahd

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Oksana Prykhodko <sana.pryhod at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to add new food to our old discussion about propriety to hold
> international events in non-democratic countries.
>
> Kiev just now is hosting World Newspaper Congress, with participation of
> the most influential editors and journalists from the whole world.
>
> Yesterday Jacob Mathew, President of the World Association of Newspapers
> and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), gave excellent analysis of media situation
> in Ukraine, underlined main threats to media freedom. Then Ukrainian
> president Victor Yanulovich gave his interpretation of the same situation,
> stating, that there are no problems for the freedom of speech in Ukraine.
> During his speech 12 Ukrainian journalists and media activists (I was among
> them) stood up with critical banners. And were brutally attacked by
> Yanukovich securities.
>
> It was excellent illustration to his words, and received world-wide
> coverage (except of Ukrainian TV channels).
>
> Today 14 the most influential editors met Yanukovich and demanded to
> investigate this incident and not to persecute protesters.
>
> I really highly appreciate support of WAN-IFRA and all lessons, that it
> gave to Ukraine. And I hope that IGF in Baku will be also of great use to
> Azeris.
>
> Best regards,
> Oksana
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/09/03/world/europe/03reuters-ukraine-journalists-protest.html?_r=2&ref=politics
>
> http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2012/09/06/press-freedom-an-own-goal-for-ukraine
>
>
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