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Pakistan court convicts five of reporter’s murder in landmark case

March 1, 2014 5:20 PM EST

A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted six defendants for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011, according to news reports. Reuters cited CPJ’s data, which says that 46 journalists and media workers have been killed in Pakistan for their work since 2007. Babar’s…

News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, February 2014

February 28, 2014 1:50 PM EST

CPJ releases annual publication Attacks on the Press CPJ launched the 2014 edition of its flagship publication, Attacks on the Press, on February 12, which was widely covered by local and international media outlets, including The Guardian, Reuters, and the Turkish paper Today’s Zaman. The annual assessment of global press freedom found that digital surveillance,…

Egypt to newspapers: support the army or else

February 27, 2014 5:17 PM EST

Amidst wide coverage of the trial of Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt, The Daily Beast cites CPJ research in its analysis of media freedom in the country.Read the full article here.

Hong Kong journalist slashed amid concerns of eroding media freedoms

February 26, 2014 5:07 PM EST

Kevin Lau, who was recently dismissed as editor from Ming Pao, a Hong Kong daily newspaper, was attacked with a meat cleaver leaving him in critical condition. The attack comes on the heels of a decline in the press freedom environment in Hong Kong, as profiled in CPJ’s Attacks on the Press essay. Read the…

AP chief urges governments to support free press

February 24, 2014 4:58 PM EST

The Associated Press’ executive editor, Kathleen Carroll, warned that efforts by governments to silence the media are “in effect an attack on a nation’s people.” Read the full article here.

Egypt puts Jazeera journalists on trial in test of dissent

February 20, 2014 4:50 PM EST

As the trial of the Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt began, Bloomberg News profiled the widening crackdown on journalism in the country, citing CPJ research.Read the full article here.

Is Egypt cracking cown on freedom of press?

February 18, 2014 4:40 PM EST

Reporters in Egypt are facing terrorism charges, but they say they were just doing their job. NPR host Michel Martin speaks with Sherif Mansour of the Committee to Protect Journalists and NPR’s Leila Fadel about press freedom in Egypt, and other parts of the world. Listen to the full interview here.

Press freedom groups urge David Cameron to lay off The Guardian

February 18, 2014 3:39 PM EST

The Committee to Protect Journalists, along with six other members of the Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, sent a letter to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. The letter calls on the prime minister to do two things: distance himself from the investigation into the Guardian, and urge Parliament to repeal the statute that…

The last chance to stop Turkey’s harsh new internet law

February 15, 2014 3:50 PM EST

As protests erupted in Turkey to protest a restrictive new internet law, CPJ’s Internet Advocacy Coordinator, Geoffrey King, spoke to The New Yorker about what the law meant for press freedom in the country.Read the full story here.

Int’l press organizations rally behind deported Today’s Zaman journalist

February 7, 2014 3:42 PM EST

“The Turkish authorities’ reported decision to deport a foreign journalist and bar him from re-entering Turkey — over tweeting — is a shocking development, incompatible with the country’s international commitments on freedom of the press and freedom of expression,” said Nina Ognianova, Europe and Central Asia program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),…