Asia documents by Year:
At least 2 journalists detained amid tensions in Jammu and Kashmir
August 16, 2019 3:44 PM ET
New Delhi, August 16, 2019—The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Indian government to immediately stop its harassment of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir and to allow them to work freely. Authorities have detained at least two journalists in the past week amid tensions and the communications...
CPJ calls on authorities in Shenzhen, China to release labor journalists
August 9, 2019 1:57 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists writes to authorities in Shenzhen, China, calling on them to release Yang Zhengjun, Wei Zhili, and Ke Chengbing--editors for the labor news outlet ILabour.net--and cease all legal proceedings against them.
American journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines
August 9, 2019 10:23 AM ET
Bangkok, August 9, 2019 – An American journalist working in the Philippines was shot and critically wounded on August 6 while retrieving his daughter from school in the northern province of Ifugao, according to his outlet and other press reports....
In Kashmir, obstruction, confiscated equipment, and hand-carrying stories and photos on flash drive
August 8, 2019 5:20 PM ET
“You are from the press, you are not allowed,” a local Kashmiri news editor says Indian security forces told him yesterday at one of the dozens of checkpoints set up across the region....
Video journalist injured by tear gas canister at Hong Kong protest
August 5, 2019 3:53 PM ET
Taipei, August 5, 2019—Hong Kong authorities should investigate reports that police fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets toward journalists and ensure that the media can cover protests without fear of injury or arrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
CPJ calls on India to ensure access to internet and communications services in Kashmir
August 5, 2019 3:15 PM ET
New York, August 5, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed alarm at reports of a communication blackout and the arrest of a journalist in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir state amid an escalating political crisis....
From conflict zones to courtrooms, Myanmar's journalists are under fire
July 31, 2019 12:42 PM ET
Hopes for greater press freedom when Myanmar moved to quasi-democratic rule were quickly quashed with the jailing in 2017 of two Reuters reporters. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have their freedom again, but journalists and press freedom activists who met with CPJ's Senior Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin...
Chinese court sentences journalist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison
July 29, 2019 10:50 AM ET
Taipei, July 29, 2019 -- The Mianyang Intermediate People's Court today sentenced Huang Qi, publisher of the human rights news website 64 Tianwang, to 12 years in prison on charges of "deliberately leaking state secrets," and "illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries," according to a statement published on...
Journalists charged with incitement for live-streaming land protest in Cambodia
July 26, 2019 9:35 AM ET
Bangkok, July 26, 2019 -- Cambodia should drop incitement charges against two local journalists and stop using legal threats to intimidate and harass reporters, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....