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After election, will Sri Lanka improve press record?

January 27, 2010 1:40 PM EST

Sri Lanka’s Department of Elections today declared incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa the winner of the presidential election with almost 58 percent of the vote. The situation is still tense as his opponent, former Gen. Sarath Fonseka, threatens a lawsuit to challenge the entire process, from voter access to irregularities in computer counting, to name just two…

Local politician Andal Ampatuan Jr. has been charged in the killings, but roughly 100 gunmen have not. (AP/Pat Roque)

Report: Why haven’t Maguindanao gunmen been arrested?

January 26, 2010 1:10 PM EST

International press freedom groups, including CPJ, have released a new, in-depth report into the November massacre of 30 journalists and two media support workers in Maguindanao province, Philippines. The 32-page document questions why roughly 100 gunmen believed to be involved in the election-related killings have yet to be arrested, and it emphasizes the need for…

Sri Lankan Web sites blocked amid election

January 26, 2010 12:26 PM EST

We issued this statement today after journalists in Sri Lanka told CPJ that access to several independent Web sites had been blocked as the country finished voting in presidential elections…

As Sri Lanka election nears, pro-opposition writer vanishes

January 25, 2010 2:04 PM EST

New York, January 25, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the reported disappearance of Prageeth Eknelygoda, a political reporter for the Sri Lankan news Web site Lanka eNews.

Denials aside, repression as usual online in China

January 25, 2010 1:28 PM EST

China has denied any involvement in the cyber attacks that Google revealed on January 12, and has said the country’s Internet is open. Local Internet users and entrepreneurs, however, know otherwise.

Authorities assault, fire on journalists in Kashmir

January 22, 2010 3:38 PM EST

Local news reports said a photojournalist was shot and five other journalists assaulted in the aftermath of a 22-hour battle between militants and local authorities in Srinagar, summer capital of the troubled north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on January 7, 2010.

CPJ Impact

January 22, 2010 3:04 PM EST

January 2010News from the Committee to Protect Journalists

Andal Ampatuan Jr. is escorted to his trial. (Reuters)

Journalist death toll rises in Philippines massacre

January 21, 2010 11:52 AM EST

The identification this week of photographer Jepon Cadagdagon as another victim in the Nov. 23 Maguindanao massacre has raised the death toll of journalists and media workers to 32. Even before accounting for Cadagdagon, CPJ had characterized the massacre, allegedly carried out by a ruling political clan in the area, as the deadliest event for…

In China, new Gmail attacks are latest in a long series

January 19, 2010 4:31 PM EST

New York, January 19, 2010—Foreign correspondents in Beijing told the Committee to Protect Journalists that they are aware of recent hacker attacks on colleagues’ Gmail accounts, and said they have long assumed that their e-mail is monitored and vulnerable to attack.

China hackers hit media companies and activists online

January 13, 2010 5:23 PM EST

New York, January 13, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today after Google said Tuesday it had uncovered evidence of cyber attackers from China targeting its own and other companies’ infrastructures, as well as individual Gmail accounts. CPJ welcomed Google’s statement that it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, in light of…