Poor trade-off: Jailed journalists released into exile as Vietnam pushes for weapons deal
October 6, 2015 12:24 PM ET
In September, Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan was released after serving three years of a 10-year prison term and was immediately flown to Los Angeles. In October 2014 Tan's colleague Nguyen Van Hai, whom she co-founded the Free Journalists Club with in 2007 and who was also imprisoned for...
Harassment in China: Foreign correspondents' club releases report
September 17, 2015 1:03 PM ET
From being followed by plain clothes policemen to being locked in a hotel conference room, the life of an international journalist in China comes with its challenges. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China released details on September 13 of six cases of members being harassed by authorities between March and...
An international call for China to release ailing journalist Gao Yu
August 5, 2015 5:45 PM ET
With the health of jailed journalists Gao Yu fading quickly (see 'I don't want to die here': Gao Yu's health deteriorates in Beijing prison), 15 media support and human rights groups sent a letter today to Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials calling for the 71-year-old reporter's unconditional...
Q&A: Ta Phong Tan's sister calls for release of ailing and jailed Vietnamese blogger
July 20, 2015 1:24 PM ET
As an independent blogger, Ta Phong Tan often highlighted abuses in Vietnam's justice system. Now as a prisoner of conscience serving a 10-year sentence for "propagandizing against the state," an anti-state offense under Article 88 of Vietnam's criminal code, she is suffering under the same abusive system she once...
Radio Free Asia reporter's brothers in China face anti-state charges
June 24, 2015 3:00 PM ET
This week, Washington D.C.-based Uighur journalist Shohret Hoshur, sent CPJ a message saying that on May 28 charges had finally been brought against two of his brothers, Shawket and Rexim, who have been detained since August. Hoshur, who works for the U.S.-government funded Radio Free Asia (RFA), is convinced they...
Foreign journalists in China face harassment, restrictions
May 27, 2015 12:27 PM ET
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) just released its Annual Working Conditions Report which we have reproduced with their permission, as we have done for several years. Here's a breakdown of the FCCC's top concerns:...
Pakistani journalist Muhammud Rasool Dawar under threat
May 7, 2015 11:43 AM ET
We get a fairly steady stream of journalists in Asia asking for assistance. The majority of the requests come from journalists who have been threatened, and the threats can come from just about anywhere: militant groups, the military, government officials, powerful local politicians, arms runners, and drug dealers....
Five-day ban for Al-Jazeera in India, one year after map error
April 23, 2015 4:48 PM ET
On Wednesday, Al-Jazeera was forced off the air in India after the government demanded the Qatar-based news broadcaster be suspended for five days for broadcasting images of maps between 2013 and 2014 that did not display Pakistan-controlled Kashmir as separate territory....
Jailed journalist Gao Yu saw what was coming. So should the IOC
April 17, 2015 5:08 PM ET
Gao Yu was right, I was wrong. Gao, who was handed a seven-year prison sentence in a Beijing court on Friday, and I met at a conference organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers in Paris in April 2008, a few months before the Beijing Olympic...
Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu awaits her fate
April 15, 2015 12:46 PM ET
A verdict is expected Friday in the case of veteran journalist and staunch government critic Gao Yu. The 71-year-old freelance journalist, who writes about politics, the economy, and social trends for Chinese media in Hong Kong and overseas, was tried in November for disclosing state secrets....