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News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, November 2013

December 5, 2013 12:40 PM EST

Photo credit, Barbara Nitke (CPJ) Journalists honored at CPJ’s annual award ceremony Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef was among four journalists who received CPJ’s 2013 International Press Freedom Award on November 26. Youssef has used humor to report on and criticize government failures to improve the economy and public services, and its efforts to suppress opinion.…

Indian journalist Lingaram Kodopi released on bail

November 14, 2013 2:26 PM EST

New York, November 14, 2013–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release on bail today of Lingaram Kodopi, an Indian journalist who has been imprisoned for more than two years, and calls on authorities to drop all charges against him.

Training can help journalists survive captivity

November 6, 2013 2:30 PM EST

Two murdered journalists for the Africa service of Radio France Internationale, Ghislaine Dupont, 51, and Claude Verlon, 58, might have had a chance. They were abducted on November 2 in Kidal in northern Mali, but the vehicle their captors were driving suddenly broke down, according to news reports.

Security forces arrive in Muzaffarnagar following clashes between Hindus and Muslims. (AP)

Indian TV reporter killed in clashes in Uttar Pradesh

September 10, 2013 11:26 AM EDT

New York, September 10, 2013–An Indian journalist was killed late Saturday while covering clashes between Hindus and Muslims that erupted in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, according to news reports.

India should investigate journalist murder in Uttar Pradesh

August 28, 2013 4:45 PM EDT

New York, August 28, 2013–Indian authorities must investigate the motives behind the murder of a local journalist in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh last week, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Police say a 22-year-old photographer was raped in this abandoned textile mill. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Indian journalist raped while on assignment

August 23, 2013 1:30 PM EDT

New York, August 23, 2013–Indian authorities must conduct a thorough and efficient investigation into the rape of a photographer in Mumbai on Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Magazine editor Narendra Dabholkar shot dead in India

August 20, 2013 1:59 PM EDT

New York, August 20, 2013–Indian authorities should thoroughly investigate today’s murder of an editor of a magazine and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

Cable, TV outlets shut amid push for statehood in India

August 12, 2013 1:51 PM EDT

New York, August 12, 2012–Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal have shut down cable TV service, including news channels, in the city of Darjeeling and surrounding districts amid ongoing protests in the region, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this move and calls on the state authorities to…

A Kashmiri youth throws a piece of brick at Indian police during a protest in Srinagar on July 18. Indian paramilitary soldiers fired at protesters in the region last week, killing four. (Reuters/Danish Ismail)

Kashmir’s Internet suspension fits pattern of restrictions

July 22, 2013 1:35 PM EDT

Curbing the flow of information during heightened periods of tension has become routine business by authorities in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Access to mobile Internet service was suspended Thursday after violent protests erupted in the state. Although the service was restored late that night, the episode is another example of the…

For journalist in Chhattisgarh, justice delayed, denied

July 12, 2013 2:38 PM EDT

New York, July 12, 2013–Indian authorities’ failure to proceed expeditiously in the prosecution of a freelance journalist is a miscarriage of justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The journalist, who has been held for almost two years without bail on anti-state charges, had exposed police wrongdoing in central Chhattisgarh state.