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  1. Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it.
  2. Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrested
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids that commenced in tandem to the commencement of legal proceedings in Canada.
  3. Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
  4. Captivity
    118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An account of a peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation in Iraq.
  5. CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Report finds at least 54 countries co-operated with global kidnap, detention and torture operation mounted after 9/11 attacks.
  6. CJFE welcomes release of Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    CJFE is overjoyed by the news that Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and her Australian colleague Nigel Brennan have been released after 15 months in captivity.
  7. Crime and Criminals
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
  8. French journalists released after being held hostage for 18 months
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders is delighted by today’s release of French journalists Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier and their Afghan interpreter Reza, who were abducted by a Taliban group on 29 December 2009.
  9. IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n Laguna, who worked for La OpiniA#n.
  10. IFJ Condemns Gaza Attack and Demands International Inquiry after Reports of Media Casualties
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists today reacted with shock at the news of the brutal attacks on civilians, including journalists, by Israeli forces in the assault on a flotilla that yesterday tried to breach the military blockade of Gaza
  11. IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in Colombia
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journalist Claudia Julieta Duque
  12. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  13. Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
  14. Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
  15. "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
  16. La Prenda
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2015
    Documentary. Every day, a child is abducted in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. Female victims and survivors hope to stem the tide of forced emigration from Guatemala, a country where too many women are still seen as "prendas." Also Known As: The Pawn.
  17. Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
  18. Rally in support of French journalists held hostage for past 18 months
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders continues to press for the release of the only journalists currently held hostage anywhere in the world, French TV reporters Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, who were kidnapped exactly a year and a half ago.
  19. Release of Al Jazeera journalists held by Israelis
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The two Al Jazeera journalists who were arrested on 30 June have been released from Ramleh prison, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
  20. Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
    Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
  21. Time for Action to Free Hostage Journalists in Afghanistan after 500 Days of Captivity, Says IFJ
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today joined events marking the 500 days of captivity of two French journalists, Hervé Guesquières and Stéphane Taponier.
  22. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
  23. With My Heart in Yambo
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
  24. The Young Man Was
    Part 1: United Red Army

    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.


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