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June 2008
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Central Asia
Impact
| Central Asia, China, France, India, Iraq, Mexico, Mozambique, Philippines, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
May 2008
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
Impact
| Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Taiwan
March 2008
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
By Christiane Amanpour
Murder is a terrifying reality for independent journalists around the world. A group or government embarrassed by a critical report hires a gunman rather than a lawyer to silence the messenger. More than 60 journalists were killed for their work in 2007, the second-deadliest year for the press that CPJ has ever documented.
Attacks on the Press
| Azerbaijan, Central Asia, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Rewriting
the Law to Make Journalism a Crime
By
Nina Ognianova
In its 17 years on the air, Moscow-based Ekho Moskvy Radio has enjoyed, by Russian standards, extraordinary editorial independence. Nearly alone among Russian broadcasters in its critical approach, the station employs some of the country's most outspoken journalists, who produce in-depth reporting on the most sensitive issues of the day. But in the run-up to the March 2008 presidential election, even the unshakable Ekho has begun to feel a shudder of apprehension.
February 2008
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
WASHINGTON--In August 2 testimony on Capitol Hill, CPJ urged the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe to use diplomatic pressure to combat impunity in journalist murders in Russia and other former Soviet states. Here are excerpts of remarks given by Nina Ognianova, CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.
Long before Anya Politkovskaya was slain, her newspaper suffered devastating losses. Yet Novaya Gazeta pushes ahead, investigating corruption, abuse and the deaths of its own reporters.
Some press gains are reported in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan but the Color Revolutions have yet to deliver lasting reforms.
| Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Central Asia, China, Iran, Iraq, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka
March 2007
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
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