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<li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/04/jordan-end-free-speech-prosecution">Jordan: End Free Speech Prosecution</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 4, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Jordanian criminal justice authorities should immediately drop their three-year prosecution of two intellectuals and withdraw all charges against them.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/04/libya-reject-political-isolation-law">Libya: Reject ‘Political Isolation Law’</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 4, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">ibya’s General National Congress (GNC) should vote down the latest draft of a new law to bar Gaddafi-era officials from holding public office. The proposed law’s provisions and procedures for exclusion are too sweeping and vague, Human Rights Watch said. Further, a recent amendment to the provisional constitution would prohibit judicial review of the law. A vote is expected in congress on May 5, 2013.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/03/south-sudan-stop-harassing-detaining-journalists">South Sudan: Stop Harassing, Detaining Journalists</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 3, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Security force harassment and unlawful detention of journalists is undermining freedom of expression in South Sudan, the Agency for Independent Media (AIM), Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Human Rights Watch said today, on World Press Freedom Day.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/03/ethiopia-terrorism-law-decimates-media">Ethiopia: Terrorism Law Decimates Media</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 3, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Ethiopian government should mark World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, 2013, by immediately releasing all journalists jailed under the country’s deeply flawed anti-terrorism law. On May 2, 2013, the Supreme Court upheld an 18-year sentence under the anti-terrorism law for Eskinder Nega Fenta, a journalist and blogger who received the 2012 PEN Freedom to Write Award.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/03/sudan-stepped-assault-media-freedom">Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 3, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Sudan should immediately stop censoring newspapers and end all forms of repression of media and journalists, on World Press Freedom Day.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/03/bangladesh-end-unlawful-violence-against-protesters">Bangladesh: End Unlawful Violence Against Protesters</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 3, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">With new protests planned in the coming days, the Bangladeshi government should ensure that the security forces immediately end their practice of using excessive force against protesters. The government should appoint an independent commission to investigate the deaths of dozens of protesters, including children, since large-scale street protests began in February, and prosecute anyone responsible for unlawful killings and use of force.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190651/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/02/colombia-ensure-effective-inquiry-attack-journalist">Colombia: Ensure Effective Inquiry Into Attack on Journalist</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 2, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Colombia should ensure that the investigation into the attack on a leading investigative journalist thoroughly examines possible motives related to his work and identifies all responsible parties, Human Rights Watch said today. On the evening of May 1, 2013, gunmen opened fire on the car driven by Ricardo Calderón, an editor at Semana magazine, Colombia’s main newsweekly, as it was stopped on a road between Ibagué and Bogotá. 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