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Reporters Without Borders
The publisher of the bimonthly Ishema, Fidèle Gakire, decided jointly with the newspaper's board to suspend publication for a month on 28 August as a result of the serious threats he has reportedly been receiving. The newspaper has had problems ever since it ran an opinion piece in mid-July that called President Paul Kagame a "sociopath."
The Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of a jailed journalist in Sudan, but is troubled by reports of the continued detention of at least eight others without charge. President Omar al-Bashir had announced Saturday that he would free all journalists detained in Sudan.
The Associated Press
The WikiLeaks Web site crashed late Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the organization raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential American diplomatic sources. "WikiLeaks.org is presently under attack," the group said on Twitter. An hour later, the site and the cables posted there were inaccessible.
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