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CPJ protests over China’s arrest of Australian blogger

Thursday, 29 August 2019, 2:01 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

CHINA: CPJ protests over China’s arrest of Australian blogger Yang Hengjun on espionage charges More >>

Reuters journalists freed by pardon in Myanmar

Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 4:46 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

Bangkok, May 7, 2019-- Reuters' journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were released today from a Yangon prison in Myanmar as part of a presidential pardon, after spending more than 500 days behind bars, Reuters reported. The journalists were released in ... More >>

CPJ troubled by prosecution of Julian Assange

Monday, 15 April 2019, 9:50 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, April 11, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists today said it was deeply concerned by the U.S. prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Authorities in the United Kingdom arrested Assange this morning at the Ecuadoran Embassy as part ... More >>

Seven journalists injured by gunfire in Gaza protests

Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 10:07 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

Beirut, May 14, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the use of gunfire by Israeli forces against journalists covering protests today in the Gaza Strip. At least seven Palestinian journalists have been injured by Israeli gunfire while ... More >>

State Secrecy Laws Used to Intimidate Journalists in China

Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 5:31 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned by the misuse of state secrecy laws to harass and intimidate a Chinese journalist investigating the arrest of a civil servant in Luoyang, in eastern China. More >>

Imminent danger drives journalists into exile

Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 2:31 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

ournalists facing imprisonment and other threats for their work are being forced into exile worldwide, with at least 649 fleeing their countries in the last decade, according to a new survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists that marks World ... More >>

CPJ report documents sexual aggression against journalists

Friday, 10 June 2011, 2:25 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

Dozens of journalists from all regions of the world are breaking their silence on the sexual aggression they have endured in the course of their work. Their accounts, detailed in a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), provide the ... More >>

"An exodus from Iran, East Africa"

Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 2:47 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

At least 29 Iranian editors, reporters, and photographers fled into exile over the past 12 months, the highest annual tally from a single country in a decade, a new survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. At the same time, there ... More >>

Ten Journalist Murder Cases To Solve

Sunday, 2 May 2010, 12:58 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

In the Philippines, political clan members slaughter more than 30 news media workers and dump their bodies in mass graves. In Sri Lanka, a prominent editor who has criticized authorities is so sure of retaliation that he predicts his own murder. More >>

CPJ worldwide survey - "Attacks on the Press"

Friday, 19 February 2010, 11:27 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

An unprecedented massacre of Philippine journalists, a spike in violence in Somalia, and Iran's massive crackdown on free expression - these are among the major developments examined by the Committee to Protect Journalists in the new edition of Attacks on ... More >>

CPJ: New Database of Journalists Killed in Action

Thursday, 29 October 2009, 1:16 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, October 26, 2009 - The Committee to Protect Journalists has launched a new database of journalists killed in action. Drawing on years of CPJ research, the database offers interactive maps and timelines, along with statistical ... More >>

Analysis: Journalist Deaths Hit Decade Peak

Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 10:39 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

Journalists were killed in unusually high numbers in 2007, making it the deadliest year for the press in more than a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists' end-of-year analysis. More >>

CPJ calls for Bradley Will murder investigation

Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 2:32 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that one year after the death of journalist Bradley Roland Will nobody has been brought to justice. Further, we are troubled by the absence of a serious murder investigation and the lack of ... More >>

Committee to Protect Journalists To Honor Five

Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 3:35 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor courageous journalists from Russia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico with 2007 Intl Press Freedom Awards. Each has put their life or liberty on the line. Tom Brokaw receives an Award for lifetime achievement. More >>

Journalist convicted of defamation

Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 9:10 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, March 16, 2007 - A court in the capital N'Djamena sentenced on Tuesday a journalist to a six-month suspended prison term and damages on criminal defamation charges over a May 2006 story alleging corruption by a Catholic priest, according ... More >>

CPJ Honors Four Brave Journalists

Saturday, 25 November 2006, 1:28 pm | Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, November 22, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists marked its 25th anniversary by honoring four journalists with its 2006 International Press Freedom Awards in a ceremony Tuesday night which highlighted record-setting attacks on the ... More >>

Murder Leading Cause of Journalist Deaths

Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 11:48 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

Even in a year of combat casualties brought on by war, murder remained the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists worldwide in 2004, an analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. More >>

Belarus Burma Burundi USA Journos Freedom Awards

Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 11:22 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

CPJ to present press freedom awards to journalists from Belarus, Burma, Burundi and United States More >>

CPJ Names World's Worst Places to Be a Journalist

Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 9:56 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

CPJ marks World Press Freedom Day by naming world's worst places to be a journalist More >>

"Attacks on the Press in 2003" CPJ Survey

Monday, 15 March 2004, 9:10 am | Committee to Protect Journalists

CPJ releases "Attacks on the Press in 2003"; annual survey documents changing press freedom landscape More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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