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| Swedish Defense Minister Mikael Odenberg listens to a question during a press conference 08 March 2007, in Stockholm. The far-reaching wiretapping program proposed by Sweden's government to defend against foreign threats, including monitoring emails and telephone calls, has stirred up a fiery debate in the country with critics decrying the creation of a "big brother" state. AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX SWEDEN / Pontus Lundahl |
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| Chinese lnternet websurfers at an Internet cafe in Hefei, central China's Anhui province 25 January 2007. Experts say some 30,000-40,000 Internet police are working on strengthening the so-called Great Firewall of China that keeps the free-flow of Internet information beyond the reach of the Chinese people, and in his call for tighter monitoring of the Internet, Chinese President Hu Jintao urged members of the party's powerful Politburo to find more advanced technologies to control public opinion. CHINA OUT GETTY OUT AFP PHOTO |
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| Russian NTV channel footage taken by a security camera shows Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, entering a building in Moscow, where she was killed, a few seconds later 07 October 2006. AFP PHOTO / NTV |
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| Members of the local organization "Women in Journalism of Bangladesh Centre for Journalism and Communication" take part in a demonstration in Dhaka, 02 May 2005. Hundreds of female Bangladeshi journalists took part in the demonstration staged to demand the cancellation by the government of the "Official Secrecy Act", an act implemented in 1980 and which prevents journalists from access to official information. AFP PHOTO/Farjana K. GODHULY |
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| Demonstrators wear bandages during a protest against the State control of mass media in Russia near the Kremlin in Moscow, 07 June 2006. When President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 reining in the media was among his top priorities. Six years on, Russia's media landscape is marked by state control of television and a climate of self-censorship in newsrooms. AFP PHOTO / DENIS SINYAKOV |
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| Picture taken 19 January 2007 shows the dead body of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink killed gunned down in front of his newspaper's office. Dink, 53, targeted by the courts for his views on the 1915-18 killings of Armenians, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul 19 January. AFP PHOTO / MUSTAFA OZER |
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| An unidentified worker folds freshly printed copy of the Chadian daily the Observer (L'Observateur) 15 November 2006 carrying a headline reading "Censored" in Ndjamena, Chad. After a flare of interethnic violence that have left 300 dead in the east of the country, Chadian government imposed the state of emergency and reinstored the censorship. AFP PHOTO/SONIA ROLLEY |
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| US President George W. Bush (L) and Larry Thompson (R), former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, participate in a conversation on the USA Patriot Act 20 April 2004 at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York.The Patriot Act gave the US government new authorities on wiretapping, electronic surveillance and other forms of intelligence gathering to help combat terrorism. Opponents say it violates civil liberties. AFP PHOTO/LUKE FRAZZA |
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| A person walks past the logo of German weekly magazine "Der Spiegel" at the entrance of the headquarters of Der Spiegel, which is renowned for investigative journalism, 12 May 2006. The scandal into spying on journalists in Germany took a new twist 16 May 2006 when a photograph of Der Spiegel editor in chief Stefan Aust raised suspicions that the intelligence-gathering went further than first thought. The day before the German government ordered the federal intelligence agency (BND) not to spy on local journalists after a scandal erupted over reports that correspondents had been put under surveillance to stop leaks to the press. AFP PHOTO DDP/ROLAND MAGUNIA GERMANY OUT |
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| Photo taken 26 August 2005, shows police officers patrolling a boardwalk near the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Australian Prime Minister John Howard defended new anti-terror laws 20 October, which give police the right to "shoot to kill" suspects, amid mounting criticism of the proposed legislation. AFP PHOTO/Greg WOOD |
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| A combo of a picture showing the body of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat al-Samerai along with a TV grab taken off the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite news channel 23 February 2006 showing her transmitting her last report from an open field on the fringes of the central Iraqi city of Samarra. In her last report, 30-year-old Bahjat spoke about the high tension in the city and the fact that she was not able to venture inside because all the entrances were sealed. AFP PHOTO/DIA HAMID/AL-ARABIYA -- AL-JAZEERA OUT – |
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| Pakistani security personnel prevent a cameraman from filming at the blast site outside the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, 26 January 2007. A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself when he set off explosives strapped to his body outside the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the interior minister said. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI |
