HOW TO REPORT AN ATTACK ON THE MEDIA The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) needs your assistance to compile accurate and detailed alerts on abuses of press freedom in the Southern African region. Alerts serve a very important function in the advocacy work of MISA. The ultimate aim of the alert is to spur people on to take action in the light of a particular violation. Apart from that, the alert serves the purpose of reporting and recording a specific event or incident, which either amounts to a violation of media freedom or freedom of expression, or significantly advances it. The alert is thus part of one of the most essential tools of advocacy - information. :KDWWRUHSRUW Journalists who are: • Assaulted • Arrested • Censored • Denied credentials • Harassed • Kidnapped • Killed • Missing • Threatened 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" • Wrongfully expelled • Wounded • Wrongfully sued for libel or defamation News organisations that are: • Attacked or illegally searched • Censored • Closed by force • Raided, where editions are confiscated or transmissions are jammed. Materials confiscated or damaged • Wrongfully sued for libel or defamation :KDWWRLQFOXGHLQ\RXUUHSRUW MISA needs accurate and detailed information about: • Names of journalists and news organisations involved • Date and circumstances of the incident • Detailed background information $Q\RQHZLWKLQIRUPDWLRQDERXWDQ DWWDFNRQWKHPHGLDVKRXOGFDOO WKH5HVHDUFKHUDW0,6$E\GLDOOLQJ RUE\VHQGLQJ HPDLOWRUHVHDUFK#PLVDRUJ