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For Turkish journalists in Berlin exile, threats remain, but in different forms
July 18, 2019 5:16 PM ET
For Can Dündar, sitting in the audience of a theater performance near Dortmund in Germany in May was an emotional moment. In an interview with CPJ, he recalled how during the premiere night, he watched the main actor on stage playing a journalist as he was imprisoned in Turkey,...
Locked in 'small graves': Nicaraguan journalists Mora and Pineda describe their ordeal
July 16, 2019 9:00 AM ET
Miguel Mora and Lucía Pineda were arrested on December 21, 2018, in the Managua newsroom of 100% Noticias and spent 172 days in prison facing charges of "inciting violence and hate" and "promoting terrorism." The two journalists spoke to CPJ after their June 11 release. They will receive CPJ's...
'It should not be accepted as normal': Female journalists on harassment, intimidation in the Netherlands
July 15, 2019 10:30 AM ET
The Netherlands is generally considered to have a positive press freedom reputation, but when the independent Dutch Association of Journalists released the findings of its survey of over 350 female journalists in May, over half said they had been subjected to intimidation or violence in their work and around...
CPJ joins letter urging MTN Group to end participation in internet shutdowns in Sudan
July 11, 2019 2:40 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists yesterday joined 22 other organizations in signing a joint letter to executives at South African telecommunications company MTN Group, calling on them to end their roles in Sudan's internet shutdowns....
Hong Kong Journalists Association finds government has done little to safeguard press freedom
July 11, 2019 11:55 AM ET
The Hong Kong Journalists Association annual report, released on July 7, shows a deterioration of press freedom in the special administrative region as China toughens its "one country" policy....
In era of reform, Ethiopia still reverts to old tactics to censor press
July 9, 2019 3:42 PM ET
On June 22, Ethiopia was plunged into an internet blackout following what the government described as a failed attempted coup in the Amhara region. In the aftermath at least two journalists were detained under the country's repressive anti-terror law, part of an uptick in arrests that CPJ has noted...
Albania's journalists tread fine line when covering organized crime, politics
July 5, 2019 10:00 AM ET
The intersection of organized crime, corruption and politics in Albania is impacting the country's press. During a joint mission by a coalition of press freedom organizations to Tirana in June, CPJ Europe Correspondent Attila Mong spoke with journalists about challenges including threats, attacks, political interference, and legal harassment....
Press freedom summit urges Mexico to reform journalist protections
July 2, 2019 6:21 PM ET
On June 18, more than 400 people converged in Mexico City for CPJ's Mexico Press Freedom Summit. Energized by a sense that the country is at a point of profound political change under the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the conference delved into the threats for Mexican...
CPJ joins letter to EU's Mogherini urging release of Kyrgyz journalist Askarov
July 1, 2019 3:30 PM ET
CPJ joined seven other human rights and freedom of expression groups in writing a letter, made public today, calling on the government of Kyrgyzstan to release journalist and rights advocate Azimjon Askarov....
Discredited, threatened, attacked: challenges of covering South Africa's election in the digital age
July 1, 2019 3:10 PM ET
In the lead up to South Africa's elections in May, the Electoral Commission of South Africa accredited CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Angela Quintal as an international observer, monitoring press freedom. Quintal found that unlike 1994--when she covered the violence of the country's first democratic elections--journalists in 2019 cited online...