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Asia press releases
Year: 2008 | Sort: by country
 Afghanistan
 31 January 2008 - Authorities urged to quickly reexamine case of journalist under sentence of death
25 January 2008 - Mounting criticism of young journalist’s death sentence
22 January 2008 - Shock at death sentence passed on young journalist for blasphemy
17 January 2008 - Mullahs call for death penalty for young journalist held for past three months
15 January 2008 - Attacks on civilians condemned after Norwegian journalist killed by Taliban violence in Kabul
Burma
31 January 2008 - Detained poet transferred to Insein prison
16 January 2008 - Myanmar Times and other media threatened and sanctioned by military censors
China
31 January 2008 - Hu Jia formally charged for "inciting subversion"
11 January 2008 - Hu Jia’s lawyer put under house arrest, foreign journalists prevented from visiting wife and daughter
Nepal
21 January 2008 - Journalist’s hands slashed amid continuing violence against press
17 January 2008 - Statement of the International press freedom mission to Nepal
16 January 2008 - Local newspaper publisher falls victim to ethnic violence in south
Pakistan
21 January 2008 - Government lifts cable ban on Geo TV but makes it remove some programmes
13 January 2008 - Concern about situation of foreign journalists after New York Times writer forced to leave
9 January 2008 - Five key problems for media coverage of February’s legislative elections
Philippines
31 January 2008 - A second radio journalist jailed for defamation
Sri Lanka
29 January 2008 - Irresponsible comments and actions by ministers endanger journalists
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