Asia

2018

  
Doordarshan video journalist Achyutananda Sahu, pictured, was killed when Maoist rebels ambushed the police he was embedded with. (Doordarshan)

Video journalist killed in Maoist rebel attack in Chhattisgarh

New Delhi, October 30, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists called on authorities in Chhattisgarh to ensure the safety of media covering elections after a journalist embedded with police was killed in an ambush. Video journalist Achyutananda Sahu, who worked for the government-run broadcaster Doordarshan, was killed in Chhattisgarh today during a firefight between police and…

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A tribute to victims of an April 2018 suicide attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, that killed at least nine journalists. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Getting Away with Murder

CPJ’s 2018 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free By Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant Impunity is entrenched in 14 nations, according to CPJ’s 2018 Global Impunity Index, which ranks states with the worst records of prosecuting the killers of journalists.

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Journalist Raghav Bahl, center, is seen in this screen grab with staff at The Quint. Tax officials raided the website's offices and Bahl's home on October 11.

In India, tax officials raid offices, home of Quint editor-in-chief and Modi critic

Officials from India’s Income Tax Department on October 11, 2018, raided the home of journalist Raghav Bahl and the offices of The Quint, in Noida, where Bahl is editor-in-chief, and The Newsminute in Bengaluru, a news website that Bahl has a minority stake in, according to media reports. Government officials told Press Trust of India…

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Reliance Group sues India’s NDTV for US$1 billion over its reporting on Rafale jet deal

New Delhi, October 19, 201– The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Indian conglomerate Reliance Group, owned by businessman Anil Ambani, to end its use of excessive civil defamation cases filed against critical news outlets. Reliance Group yesterday filed a civil defamation case seeking Rs10,000 crore (US$1.35 billion) against the privately owned NDTV…

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Pakistan journalists protest the killing of K2 Times journalist Bakhsheesh Elahi in June 2017. A second journalist for the Urdu-language newspaper was shot dead on October 16, 2018. (AP/B.K. Bangash)

Gunmen in Pakistan kill K2 Times reporter

New York, October 17, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Pakistani authorities to investigate and promptly bring to justice the killers of journalist Sohail Khan. Khan, a reporter for the Urdu daily K2 Times, was shot dead while driving in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, yesterday, according to multiple news reports.

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Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known by her pen name "Mother Mushroom," with her two children on a plane on the way to the U.S. after being freed from prison in Vietnam on October 17, 2018. (Family photo)

Vietnam releases from prison CPJ awardee ‘Mother Mushroom’

Bangkok, October 17, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today welcomed news that Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known by her pen name “Mother Mushroom,” has been freed from prison and allowed to depart with her family on a flight to the United States.

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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on October 9, 2018. Vietnam sentenced a citizen journalist to prison on an anti-state charge on October 12. (Franck Robichon/Pool via Reuters)

Vietnam sentences citizen journalist on second anti-state charge

Bangkok, October 15, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the second prison sentence handed to Vietnamese journalist Do Cong Duong and strongly reiterated its call for his immediate and unconditional release.

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An officer stand guards before Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Three journalists from Eleven Media were remanded to the prison after raising questions about public spending in Yangon. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP)

Myanmar arrests three journalists from Eleven Media

New York, October 10, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Myanmar authorities to immediately release without charge three journalists from Eleven Media Group arrested today.

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In this August 14, 2018, photo, Victor Mallet, Financial Times Asia news editor, right, speaks with Andy Chan, founder of the Hong Kong National Party, at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's government has declined to renew Mallet's work visa. (AP)

Hong Kong denies visa renewal for Financial Times editor

Taipei, October 5, 2018–Hong Kong’s immigration authorities declined to renew the visa of Victor Mallet, Financial Times’ Asia news editor and the vice-president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, according to a statement today from the Financial Times and other media reports. The rejection came after Mallet chaired a talk by pro-independence activist Andy Chan Ho-tin…

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CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon talks about global press freedom violations during a Press Behind Bars panel at the U.N. (Reuters)

CPJ’s Joel Simon speaks at Press Behind Bars panel

Committee to Protect Journalists Executive Director Joel Simon addressed a panel event at the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on September 28, 2018. The event highlighted global press freedom violations and the jailing of journalists in countries around the world, with a specific focus on cases in Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh,…

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2018