given is for the number of media workers
involved.

%RPEHG - This includes incidents
where a home of a journalist or the office
of a media house/outlet/organisation
is sabotaged through bombing, arson,
vandalism, theft, or is raided or occupied
forcibly. The statistic given is for the
number of media workers or media
organisations involved.

'HWDLQHG - This involves a media
worker being put behind bars. It can
be legal or illegal and includes being
sentenced to a jail term or being detained
(without
charge,
incommunicado,
preventative, arrest). The statistic given
is for the number of media workers
involved.

&HQVRUHG - This is where information
is suppressed or prevented from being
published, or where media workers
are somehow or other prevented from
getting their information out. It involves
straight forward censorship such as
a banning, a gagging order, order for
excisions, preventing the publication
of information through legislative
restrictions, e.g. public officials or the
courts, and interdicts, court orders or civil
litigation resulting in the suppression of
information. It also involves a publication
or broadcaster or programme being shut
down or suspended, as well as incidents
where equipment and/or materials are
confiscated. The statistic given is for
the number of media workers or media
organisations involved.



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([SHOOHG - This category relates to
the free movement of media workers. It
involves incidents where journalists are
expelled from a country, are prevented
from entering a country (denying of
Visas, work papers or accreditation), are
prevented from leaving a country, are
barred from travelling into a country
or from entering certain areas, and
generally inhibited from moving freely in
order to perform their work. The statistic
given is for the number of media workers
involved.
/HJLVODWLRQ - This relates to all
aspects of the legislative process and the
application of common law. It includes
instances where official proposals are
made for new laws, legislation is passed,
laws are amended or struck down either
in parliament or by the courts, and civil
litigation is instituted against media.
This category is not all about violations,
since there can be legislation that
enhances media freedom and freedom
of expression. This has been pointed
out accordingly through the descriptive
terms ‘threatening legislation and
‘positive legislation’. The statistic given
is for the number of incidents reported
under this category, as opposed to the
number of media workers or media
organisations involved.

6HQWHQFHG - This is when a judgement
is handed down against a media worker
involving either a prison term or a fine.
The statistic given is for the number of
media workers involved.

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