On October, 31, Globe International NGO introduced its report on press freedom in Mongolia, with the purpose of illustrating the current situationo Mongolian press freedom.Globe International has registered 35 violations during Free Expression Violation Monitoring conducted between October 2005 and October 2006.

CASE STUDIES
Court case: G.Dashrentsen
G.Dashtseren
Newspaper “Deedsiin khureelen”
Politic

Case study: G.Batjav
G.Batjav
“Eagle” television
Unknown people beat, acted without discipline and

Monitoring Report
Preamble
The establishment of a public service broadcaster is a significant and importan

MEDIA FREEDOM
Mongolia Report
October 2005- October 2006

I. INTRODUCTION

We are presenting our first media freedom report to you. We express many thanks to Open Society Forum and Mongolia and Network Media Programme of Open Society Institute for the opportunity to make this report available.

R.Oyuntsetseg, Press Institute

Censorship exists because the job descriptions of the media owners and editors are not clearly developed. The media owner indicates and instructs what should be published; in other words, he or she directly influences her or his editor. That is why the media owner is engaged in the topics that the reporter should write. The economic situation of the newspaper also affects the publication policy.

L.Munkhbayasgalan, Odriin onin (Daily News), daily

Censorship is not only the arrest or imprisonment of journalists. I understand it as poor working conditions, not publishing the journalists’ materials and restricting freedom of expression.

Z.Altai, Channel 25
I think there are freedom of expression and freedom to publish, but restrictions are needed for anything. The media and journalists’ activities should be supervised, if it relates to matters of personal reputations or harms national security. We should not act like journalists have absolute power. Here we do not censor our journalists who work within the law. In order to be more responsible, we take internal control.

Ts.Munkhtor, Mongolian National Broadcasting (MNB)

Censorship is the influence of editorial independence

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