Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #JohnnyBlades #Samoa #mediafreedom #pressfreedom #SamoaObserver #UNperiodicreview
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It's unreasonable of @ABCmediawatch to expect @SenatorWong to be critical of the authoritarian bullying of the @samoaobserver by the Samoan PM given she can't even refer to the Israeli #Genocide as a genocide.

Samoan PM La’aulialemalietoa apologises for historical ‘Heil Hitler’ video #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #samoaobserver #Samoa #nazisalute
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#Samoa: RSF is calling on the Prime Minister to lift the ban preventing the daily #SamoaObserver from attending government press conferences. The measure is totally unacceptable — it comes after one of its journalists filed a complaint over violence committed by the PM’s security officers.

#Samoa : RSF demande au 1er ministre de lever l'interdiction pesant sur le quotidien #SamoaObserver d'assister aux conférences de presse du gouv. Cette décision, prise après que l'un de ses journaliste ait porté plainte pour des violences commises par des agents de sécurité du PM, est inacceptable.

#Samoa : RSF demande au 1er ministre de lever l'interdiction pesant sur le quotidien #SamoaObserver d'assister aux conférences de presse du gouv. Cette décision, prise après que l'un de ses journaliste ait porté plainte pour des violences commises par des agents de sécurité du PM, est inacceptable.

PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban #Samoa #SamoaObserver #PacificMediaWatch @rsf-interfr.bsky.social
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Samoan PM takes aim at local journalists, claims overseas media ‘in the dark’ #asiapacificreport #PacificMediaWatch #SamoaObserver @rsf.org #mediafreedom #pressfreedom
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Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’ #asiapacificreport #PacificMediaWatch #mediafreedom #Samoa #SamoaObserver #newspaperban
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RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa Observer #asiapacificreport #PacificMediaWatch #mediafreedom #Samoa #SamoaObserver @rsf.org
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Condemn the decision by President of Samoa for blocking #SamoaObserver journalists to cover his press conferences. Instead of bringing the security guards under the probe, the authorities decided to punish the newspaper