Ethiopia arrests at least five journalists during state of emergency
March 26, 2018 4:10 PM ET
Nairobi, March 26, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ethiopian authorities to release five journalists. Security forces yesterday arrested Eskinder Nega, Temesghen Desalegn, Zone 9 bloggers Befekadu Hailu and Mahlet Fantahun, and Zelalem Workagegnehu, who were gathered...
Ethiopia arrests critical blogger Seyoum Teshome
March 9, 2018 5:11 PM ET
Nairobi, March 9, 2018--Ethiopian authorities should immediately release Seyoum Teshome, who publishes the Ethiothinktank blog, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Security forces yesterday arrested Seyoum at his home near the Woliso campus of Ambo University, where he...
Equatorial Guinea releases from prison journalist Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé
March 7, 2018 12:31 PM ET
New York, March 7, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today welcomed news that Equatoguinean cartoonist and blogger Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé is free from prison after serving more than five months in a Malabo jail on false charges of...
Uzbekistan releases world's longest-jailed journalist, but two more face trial
March 2, 2018 5:12 PM ET
New York, March 2, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today confirmed that Yusuf Ruzimuradov, the longest-imprisoned journalist worldwide, was freed in Uzbekistan in late February. CPJ called on authorities to take further steps to improve the climate for the...
CPJ calls on Ethiopia to drop case against Zone 9 blogger
February 16, 2018 12:57 PM ET
Nairobi, February 16, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ethiopian authorities to drop an incitement charge against Zone 9 blogger Atnafu Berhane. Prosecutors told a court on February 14 they planned to drop the charge today, but...
CPJ joins call for Uzbekistan to investigate claims jailed journalists were tortured
February 14, 2018 1:48 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined a coalition of 11 other international press freedom and human rights advocacy groups, in calling on Uzbek authorities to conduct an investigation into allegations of torture and ill-treatment of jailed journalists Bobomurod...
Why release of two journalists in Ethiopia does not signal end to press crackdown
January 25, 2018 4:08 PM ET
On January 10, radio journalists Darsema Sori and Khalid Mohammed were released from prison after serving lengthy sentences related to their work at the Ethiopian faith-based station Radio Bilal. Despite their release and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's promise earlier...
CPJ joins call for an effective investigation into murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
January 19, 2018 11:50 AM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined a group of partner organizations to express concern over the lack of progress into the murder investigation of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Along with the journalist's family, the group of organizations...
Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repression
December 13, 2017 12:00 AM ET
For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers--Turkey, China, and Egypt--into improving the bleak...