New York, November 19, 2009—The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the Singapore government’s refusal to renew British freelance
journalist Benjamin Bland’s work visa and its rejection of his application to
cover the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit
meeting. Bland had planned to report on the summit for the
Committee to Protect Journalists
UK
British probe sought in Munadi death
CPJ urges British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to undertake a full investigation into the death of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi, left. A reporter for The New York Times, Munadi was killed September 9 during a British military operation that rescued reporter Stephen Farrell from Taliban captors. Had troops been instructed to save Munadi?
• CPJ's letter to Brown
• Full coverage of Munadi case
• CPJ's letter to Brown
• Full coverage of Munadi case
Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S.
Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England U.S. bill, the Free Speech
Protection Act 2009, is itself the product of those laws, which have made London
Dear Prime Minister Brown: The Committee to Protect Journalists wishes to offer our condolences on the loss of British Parachute Regiment Cpl. John Harrison, who died in a September 9 military operation to rescue two journalists kidnapped by Taliban forces in Afghanistan. We are grateful that New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, a British-Irish national, was safely rescued, but we’re saddened by the loss of his colleague, fellow New York Times reporter Sultan Munadi.
On Monday, two weeks before her October 26 due date, Paola Gourley, the wife of jailed Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, at left, was rushed to the hospital after she suffered bleeding due to stress. From the London Metropolitan Hospital, her pleas for the release for her husband—who is nearing...
On September 15, a CPJ delegation released a special report in Moscow on impunity in journalist killings committed in Russia under the country’s current leadership. The report, Anatomy of Injustice, garnered an unusual amount of attention from the Russian media. Our press conference at the Independent Press Center was packed...
Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered Britain's Channel 4 News Asia correspondent Nick Paton-Walsh, cameraman Matt Jasper, and producer Bessie Du, to leave the country on May 10, 2009, according to Channel 4 and international news reports. ...
New York, September 17, 2008--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the Lisburn Magistrates' Court decision to charge four men in the 2001 murder of Martin O'Hagan, an investigative journalist with the Dublin newspaper Sunday World. O'Hagan, 51, was hit by gunshots from a passing car outside his home in the...
July 2008News from the Committee to Protect Journalists...
Independent Tunisian Journalists Still Face Harsh Attacks By Joel Campagna Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, London...
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