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CPJ joins call for Russian authorities to end harassment of journalists covering Moscow protests
August 22, 2019 2:46 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined seven other press freedom organizations in calling on the Russian authorities to end their harassment of journalists covering opposition protests in Moscow. Protests have taken place on four consecutive Saturdays in July and August after the local electoral commission’s decision to ban...
CPJ, RCFP file lawsuit seeking documents in leak investigation
August 9, 2019 12:53 PM ET
Yesterday, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) filed a lawsuit against the United States government seeking to obtain documents concerning steps taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to investigate leakers and to identify journalists’ sources....
In Kashmir, obstruction, confiscated equipment, and hand-carrying stories and photos on flash drive
August 8, 2019 5:20 PM ET
“You are from the press, you are not allowed,” a local Kashmiri news editor says Indian security forces told him yesterday at one of the dozens of checkpoints set up across the region....
Nicaragua: A crackdown in four parts
August 5, 2019 11:11 AM ET
When protests erupted in Nicaragua in April last year, it was clear from the beginning that the country's media landscape would be a battleground. One day into the unrest, the government ordered cable providers to cut the signals of at least five TV channels. By the end of the...
Deyda Hydara’s daughter: ‘I am still crying’ for murdered Gambian journalist
August 2, 2019 4:16 PM ET
At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of prominent editor Deyda Hydara on December 16 , 2004. He said Jammeh had given the direct order to assassinate Hydara, an...
CPJ joins call for U.N. Human Rights Council to extend mandate of Burundi Commission of Inquiry
August 2, 2019 11:35 AM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined 40 other civil society organizations in calling on member and observer states of the U.N. Human Rights Council to extend for a year the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi....
From conflict zones to courtrooms, Myanmar's journalists are under fire
July 31, 2019 12:42 PM ET
Hopes for greater press freedom when Myanmar moved to quasi-democratic rule were quickly quashed with the jailing in 2017 of two Reuters reporters. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have their freedom again, but journalists and press freedom activists who met with CPJ's Senior Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin...
CPJ Launches Digital Safety Kit
July 30, 2019 11:30 AM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists has launched a new, updated Digital Safety Kit for journalists looking to better protect themselves, their sources, and their information. The kit, produced by CPJ's Emergencies Response Team, combines six bite-sized safety notes on different topics in an accessible format that is easy to...
Kazakhstan's move to control internet prompts censorship, surveillance concerns
July 25, 2019 1:49 PM ET
A state-controlled internet service provider in Kazakhstan is requiring at least some of its subscribers to submit to having their internet traffic intercepted when they use specific websites--including social media sites, email and messaging services, and Google News, according to research published this week by Censored Planet, a project...
