We made the following statement today after the Venezuelan government issued an
arrest warrant for Guillermo Zuloaga, president of Globovisión, on usury and
conspiracy charges.
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Following news that Italian freelance photojournalist Fabio Polenghi was fatally
shot, and at least two other international journalists wounded today as security
forces stormed a makeshift camp of “Red Shirt” protesters in Bangkok
We issued the following statement today
after the National Assembly of Armenia
approved on a second reading the decriminalization of defamation, including
libel and insult. If signed into law, the amendments to Armenia
We issued the following statement today after the Azerbaijani independent agency Turan reported on the testimony of two inmates who allegedly saw imprisoned editor Eynulla Fatullayev take drugs. Fatullayev was charged with drug usage shortly before the European Court of Human Rights acquitted him of all earlier trumped-up charges and ordered his immediate release.
In response to news reports today that
We issued the following statement after weekly Cameroon Express Editor Bibi Ngota died of hypertension Wednesday night while in prison in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde. Ngota was arrested with two other journalists in February for reporting on an alleged corruption case implicating a presidential advisor.
How many journalists does it take to change a
light bulb? If anyone has an answer to that, he or she was probably in the crowd that gathered last
night for Commedia
dell Media, the journalists’ stand-up comedy gala benefitting CPJ and
other press freedom groups. Follow the link for details.
The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following
statement after learning that a months-long gag order was lifted today. The gag order prevented Israeli media from reporting on the case of a
soldier charged with “harming national security” who is under house arrest for
leaking documents that allegedly show that the military violated an Israeli
Supreme Court decision to cease a policy of assassinations in the occupied
Palestinian territories.
We issued the
following statement after learning that Belarusian authorities have stripped
Pavel Sheremet, a prominent journalist living in Russia, of his
Belarusian citizenship. In an interview today for the independent news Web site
Belarussky Partizan, Sheremet
said he received a notice about this from the Belarusian embassy in
We issued the following statement today after Google announced it had stopped censoring its search engine in China:
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