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US border agents question journalists over migrant caravan

Journalists covering a migrant caravan say U.S. border agents are subjecting them to invasive questions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Agents search a freelancer's notebook and ask two photojournalists to identify 'instigators' of the caravan in photographs. Mexican border officials deny entry to at least two international journalists. CPJ's report 'Nothing to Declare' finds that agents' secondary screenings and device searches risk undermining press freedom. Changes to U.S. asylum policy result in journalists being trapped in immigration detention after fleeing threats in their home countries. (AFP/Ariana Drehsler)

• Video: How warrantless searches undermine press freedom
• CPJ's recommendations to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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CPJ and IPI urge Slovak officials to expedite Kuciak case
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Ukrainian court grants prosecutor access to newsmagazine's files, reporter's emails
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Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences for Cumhuriyet staff
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Egypt expels New York Times correspondent, detains local journalist on false news charges
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CPJ and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, in collaboration with other press freedom groups, lead this nonpartisan website on the number of press freedom violations in the United States.

Protesters hold copies of Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet during a demonstration in front of a courthouse in Istanbul on October 31, 2017. Today, the Istanbul appeals court rejected several appeals relating to the Cumhuriyet case. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)
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Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences for Cumhuriyet staff
The Cairo International Airport is pictured through the window of a plane. Two journalists were recently detained at the airport in separate cases. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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Egypt expels New York Times correspondent, detains local journalist on false news charges
People listen to a radio in Monrovia, Liberia, on December 27, 2017. The Roots FM radio station in Monrovia was recently attacked in two separate incidents. (Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)
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Liberian radio station transmitter attacked twice in 10 days
Voters line up at a polling station in Sukma in Chhattisgarh state on November 12, 2018. The state's newly elected state minister is setting up a committee to draft a journalist safety law. (AFP)
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Chhattisgarh's plan for journalist safety law could be template for all India
An electoral worker prepares identity card and biometric verification readers, at the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano, northern Nigeria, on February 14, 2019. CPJ joined a call for Nigeria to ensure that internet and social media services remain connected during the upcoming elections. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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CPJ joins call for Nigeria to ensure internet and social media services remain connected during elections
A police officer stands guard on a bridge during the 2018 Istanbul marathon. Two journalists were detained after separate raids in the city in February 2019. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 10
Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is led handcuffed from a court in Yangon in September. He and colleague Wa Lone are serving seven-year prison sentences in Myanmar. (Reuters/Ann Wang)
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Hundreds of journalists jailed globally becomes the new normal
A tribute to victims of an April 2018 suicide attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, that killed at least nine journalists. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Getting Away with Murder
Customs and Border Protection agents pictured at Los Angeles International Airport in January 2017. The agency’s power to search electronic devices without warrant has serious implications for press freedom. (Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon)
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Nothing to declare: Why U.S. border agency's vast stop and search powers undermine press freedom
A vendor of magazines, newspapers, and calendars sits in an underground walkway in central Kiev, Ukraine, on November 18, 2016. A Ukrainian court granted the prosecutor general access to a news magazine’s files and reporter’s emails in February 2019. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Ukrainian court grants prosecutor access to newsmagazine's files, reporter's emails
Protesters hold copies of Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet during a demonstration in front of a courthouse in Istanbul on October 31, 2017. Today, the Istanbul appeals court rejected several appeals relating to the Cumhuriyet case. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)
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Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences for Cumhuriyet staff
The Cairo International Airport is pictured through the window of a plane. Two journalists were recently detained at the airport in separate cases. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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Egypt expels New York Times correspondent, detains local journalist on false news charges

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CPJ calls on Jammu and Kashmir governor to release journalist Aasif Sultan

CPJ calls on the governor of India's Jammu and Kashmir state to release journalist Aasif Sultan, who has been held by state police since August 2018, and drop all legal proceedings against him.

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