2004

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the sentencing of writer Nguyen Vu Binh to seven years in jail, followed by three years of house arrest upon his release.

New York, January 2, 2004—A total of 36 journalists were killed worldwide as a direct result of their work in 2003, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). This is a sharp increase from 2002, when 19 journalists were killed. The war in Iraq was the primary reason for the increase, as 13 journalists,…