Full Coverage: Media

30.04.2007 International watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned threats made by Sri Lankan Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, younger brother of the president, against the editor of the Daily Mirror, Champika Liyanaarachchi. The minister also threatened to "exterminate" a journalist on the newspaper, for writing articles about the plight of civilian victims of the war.

18.04.2007 Last Friday, April 13, approximately 50,000 Albanians responded to the Prime Minister’s attacks on the media through a peaceful manifestation in “Skenderbej Square”, thereby marking the largest manifestation ever witnessed in Albania since the rise of the pluralist system. This manifestation was not coordinated by political parties; rather, it was jointly organized by civil society and the media.

18.04.2007 The headquarters of Mizzima News Agency in New Delhi, India, run by exiled Burmese journalists was shut down by the Delhi Police and municipal authorities who claimed that the office was conducting "commercial activities" from a residential area.

04.04.2007 The “Vecernji list” daily illustrated its yesterday’s (April 3, 2007) article on the arrival of IKEA shop in Croatia published on the paper’s web-site, with a photo of a naked female body tied in S&M props, used as a stand for and IKEA product. The caption of the illustration states that this was IKEA advertisement for the Russian market.

02.04.2007 The second forum of environmental journalist “Alert 07” demonstrated that environmental journalism and systematic public information about the environment on mainstream media remains in its embryonic form in Croatia and that it would take a lot of effort for environmental journalists to become influential and strong factor in promotion of environmental protection in the media.