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Spotlight: East Timor Attacks Censorship

Timor-Leste Press Council warns against political interference in media

Timor-Leste Press Council warns against political interference in media

7 February 2019
Global Voices Advox

The chairperson of Timor-Leste's public television network was allegedly removed for rejecting political meddling.

East Timor Highlights
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East Timor Free Expression & the Law

Victory in Timor

Sometimes it's the little things that make for big victories. Such is the case in East Timor, where charges against two journalists were dropped following an international outcry.

‎ International Federation of Journalists‎ 2 June 2017

Access to Information East Timor Free Expression & the Law

Free but poor: Challenges to the media in covering the 2017 Timor Leste elections

As Timor-Leste conducts its fourth regular national elections, the country's free but resource-poor media is challenged to provide a fair coverage of an increasingly complex political context.

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance‎19 March 2017

East Timor

Speak out against slander suits in Timor Leste

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Sign the petition to demand Timor Leste PM drop slander charges against journalists

‎ ‎ 4 October 2016

Latest from East Timor

Global media groups call on Timor Leste PM to drop defamation case

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists, International Federation of Journalists, Freedom House

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 25 April 2016
Timor Leste prime minister files defamation suit against journalist

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 8 February 2016
Australian journalists remembered 40 years after their murder in East Timor

‎ International Federation of Journalists, Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

Impunity East Timor Indonesia 21 October 2015
Media freedom and regulation in Timor Leste

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 19 May 2015
Elements of East Timor's proposed new media law found to be unconstitutional

‎ Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 29 August 2014
East Timor urged to revise repressive media law

‎ Human Rights Watch

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 22 July 2014
Veto the new media law in Timor, says Pacific Freedom Forum

‎ Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF)

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 4 June 2014
East Timor ratifies media law, targets citizen journalism

‎ Index on Censorship

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 21 May 2014
East Timorese journalists express concern over proposed media laws

‎ International Federation of Journalists

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 18 February 2014
East Timor takes on Australia over commercial spying allegations

‎ Privacy International

East Timor Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Australia 6 February 2014
RWB welcomes creation of press council in East Timor and code of ethics

‎ Reporters Without Borders

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 7 November 2013
Odd verdict on East Timor journalist defamation case

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 20 March 2013
Court verdict due on defamation trial of two East Timorese journalists

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

East Timor Free Expression & the Law 4 March 2013
Community radio broadcaster attacked in East Timor

‎ World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters - AMARC

East Timor Attacks 14 August 2012
IFJ worried by threat against newspaper

‎ International Federation of Journalists

East Timor Attacks 18 August 2010
Ten years after murder of "Financial Times" correspondent in East Timor, commemoration in London condemns impunity

‎ International Press Institute

East Timor Indonesia 28 October 2009
ARTICLE 19 analyses draft media policy

‎ ARTICLE 19

East Timor 7 October 2009
Australia investigates "Balibo Five" murders as war crimes

‎ International Federation of Journalists

East Timor Indonesia Australia 14 September 2009
Mission finds media law reform process "flawed"

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East Timor 25 April 2009
Draft media laws seriously threaten free expression

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East Timor 15 April 2009
Regional press freedom groups alarmed by draft media laws

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

East Timor 13 April 2009
Draft media laws are good step forward, but must be revised, says ARTICLE 19

‎ ARTICLE 19

East Timor 23 March 2009
World Report 2009: Timor-Leste

‎ Human Rights Watch

East Timor 22 January 2009
Government vows to decriminalise defamation

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

East Timor 26 September 2008
World Report 2008: East Timor

‎ Human Rights Watch

East Timor 3 April 2008
Freedom of the Press 2007: East Timor

‎ Freedom House

East Timor 26 March 2008

At a glance

East Timor

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Freedom of the Press 2015: East Timor

Ranked 69th in annual global media freedom report

Freedom House 2 May 2015
Pressure on the draft press law

"The press freedom record of Timor Leste has lately been quite promising"

Southeast Asian Press Alliance 2 May 2014
Freedom of the Press 2014: East Timor

Ranked 71st in annual global media freedom report

Freedom House 2 May 2014

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