CPJ joins call for World Bank to adopt human rights policy
April 18, 2016 1:59 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined Social Justice Connection and other press freedom and human rights groups in calling on the World Bank to adopt a human rights policy at its annual spring meeting in Washington D.C. In a...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of April 17
April 18, 2016 9:08 AM ET
Trial resumes for journalists facing multiple life sentences The trial of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, editor and Ankara bureau chief, respectively, of Cumhuriyet newspaper resumed behind closed doors in Istanbul today. The court today denied prosecutors' request to...
In Somaliland, authorities order newspaper to close down
March 31, 2016 2:11 PM ET
Nairobi, March 31, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland to reopen the daily Codka Shacabka (The Voice of the People). The attorney general's office issued an order March 24 for the privately...
After Venezuelan elections, Globovisión shows more defiant stance
March 23, 2016 6:27 PM ET
When Venezuela's opposition broke the ruling party's 17-year stranglehold on power by winning control of congress in December, the political earthquake created editorial aftershocks at the 24-hour news station Globovisión....
Closure of news site underscores Malaysia's press freedom crisis amid 1MDB scandal
March 21, 2016 1:02 PM ET
On March 14, The Malaysian Insider abruptly closed its editorial operations less than a month after the state media regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, blocked local access to its news site....
Sudanese authorities confiscate newspaper edition
March 21, 2016 12:10 PM ET
Sudanese authorities confiscated all 20,000 copies of the March 15, 2016, edition of the daily newspaper Al-Sudani, according to press reports. Agents of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) appeared at the newspaper's printers in Khartoum on the evening...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of March 20
March 21, 2016 9:17 AM ET
Istanbul court rules trial for journalists facing life sentences to be closed to public The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned an Istanbul court's decision today to bar the public from the trial of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül,...
Gado blames government pressure as cartoonist's contract at Kenya's Nation ends
March 17, 2016 5:47 PM ET
For 23 years Godfrey Mwampembwa has been a prominent and quick-witted observer of the political scene in East Africa. But all that changed last month when the cartoonist, known as Gado, was told his contract at Kenya's biggest newspapers,...
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