8 October 2008 - IFEX members welcomed the presidential pardon of a two-month jail sentence against Ibrahim Issa, editor-in-chief of the independent daily "Al-Dustour". Issa's case has been taken up by rights groups in Egypt, including IFEX members the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), who have sparked numerous joint campaigns and actions demanding Issa's release.

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8 September 2008 - Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was arrested on 7 March 2008, and later charged for publishing and distributing a magazine, Northeastern Monthly, alleged to have brought the government into disrepute. The charges are supposedly related to articles Tissa wrote/edited in 2006. He has now been held for six months - five of them without charge. The IFJ and its local affiliates are demanding his immediate release and complete unconditional withdrawal of all charges.

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August-September 2008 - CPJ's Bob Dietz was on the ground in Hong Kong when John Ray, a reporter for ITV in England was hauled off by Chinese police while covering a peaceful protest in Beijing. He posted on the CPJ Blog about China's "tough talk" the next day, as officials denounced the arrest of Ray and admitted he was working within the rules afforded him as a journalist. Though positive, Dietz wrote that it was "too little too late" and kept the pressure on Chinese and Olympic officials to respect media freedom.

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