By Robert Mahoney This year, for the first time, online writers form the largest group among imprisoned journalists guardian.co.ukDecember 11, 2008If you are reading this online you are probably not in one of the countries – more than two dozen of them – that actively filter or block internet content. You’re lucky. But don’t take…
The Lebanon-based Web site Menassat has an article today about the continued detainment of Reuters cameraman Ibrahim Jassam, currently the only known journalist being held by the US military. A local Iraqi court has urged the military to release Jassam, who was arrested on September 2, as there is no evidence against him.
CPJ’s Deputy Director Robert Mahoney has a posting on The Guardian’s London-based “Comment is free” blog today about CPJ’s finding that online journalists now make up the majority of journalists jailed for their work. Read our full report on imprisoned journalists here.
New York, December 10, 2008–The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by reports that a journalist who was summoned to the Gabonese presidential office ended up in intensive care from a severe beating on December 5. The office called in journalist Habib Papy Boubendji for questioning over a November 27 column that raised pointed questions…
The release of Iraqi journalist Adel Hussein, who had been jailed in Iraqi Kurdistan, is making news today. The Associated Press has coverage of his pardon from President Masoud Barzani, as does Canada’s CBC News. Both articles cite our coverage of the case and quote CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney, who called on the authorities…
In response to a statement by the special prosecutor for crimes against the press Octavio Orellana Wiarco during a press conference in Mexico City yesterday in which he denied that Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, we issued the following statement…
There is even more coverage today of our annual census of imprisoned journalists, released last week, that lists 125 journalists in jail. The Czech service of RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, the newspaper Malaysia Today, the AsiaOne Web site, G4TV online, all have stories focused on our finding that the majority of those jailed are online journalists. AllAfrica has coverage of the…