<p>Reporters Without Borders condemns the shooting attack on four cars belonging to the television station ASTV carried out in the early hours of 26 January by one or more unidentified people. An investigation is under way and should enable the perpetrators to be identified.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the 11-year jail sentence that a Bangkok criminal court passed today on Voice of Thaksin magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk on lèse-majesté charges for publishing two articles by another person in 2010 that were deemed to have defamed the king and the monarchy.</p>

<p><em>Deadliest year for journalists since Reporters Without Borders began producing its annual roundup in 1995</em></p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, the Burma Media Association, roundly condemn the resumption of censorship by Burma&rsquo;s Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), which suspended two weeklies, The Voice and The Envoy, indefinitely on 31 July for allegedly violating &ldquo;2011 Order No. 44&rdquo; and a PSRD ban on publishing articles that have not received its approval.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a report on the crisis in the western state of Arakan, a copy of which it gave yesterday to National League for Democracy parliamentary representative Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently on a four-day visit to Paris, the last leg of a European tour that ends tomorrow.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn of the death overnight of the veteran Burmese journalist Ludu Sein Win in a Rangoon hospital. Formerly with the banned Ludu Newspaper, he had since worked for a variety of publications.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders again urges the Thai authorities to release Somyos Prueksakasemsuk, the former editor of the banned magazine Voice of Thaksin, who was tried on l&egrave;se-majest&eacute; charges during the past four days in Bangkok, with witnesses for the prosecution and defence giving evidence. Somyos has been detained for the past 12 months.</p>

<p>Today, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and 6 netizens and citizen journalists have been killed since the start of 2012, many of them in war zones such as Somalia and Syria. This is a rate of one news provider killed ever five days.</p>

<p>To mark World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is today releasing its new list of &ldquo;Enemies of the Internet&rdquo; and &ldquo;countries under surveillance.&rdquo; This report updates the list released in 2011.</p>

<p>The trial of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the Prachatai news website, resumed before a Bangkok court on 14 February after a long interruption, with testimony being heard on 14, 15 and 16 February from five defence witnesses. At the end of yesterday&rsquo;s hearing, the court announced that it would issue its verdict on 30 April.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the revelations of the investigation into the murder of the freelance journalist, Wisut &ldquo;Ae Inside&rdquo; Tangwittayaporn, <a href="http://en.rsf.org/thailand-journalist-gunned-down-on-resort-12-01-2012,41667.html">shot dead</a> in Phuket on 12 January.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders, with help from its Partner organization Burma Media Association, is distributing video interviews with the journalists U Zeya and Sithu Zeya of the exile radio and TV station <a href="http://www.dvb.no/">Democratic Voice of Burma</a> (DVB) and the blogger Nay Phone Latt, all of whom were <a href="http://en.rsf.org/burma-dvb-journalists-freelancers-and-13-01-2012,41675.html">released from prison on 13 January.</a></p>