Radio host gunned down in Colombia
September 16, 2013 4:15 PM ET
Bogotá, September 16, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Colombian authorities to launch a full investigation into the murder of a radio host on Wednesday. Édison Alberto Molina, a lawyer and politician who hosted a radio program that he...
CPJ testifies on challenges to democracy in the Americas
September 11, 2013 12:52 PM ET
Carlos Lauría's testimony starts at 1:10 in the video. Carlos Lauría, CPJ's Americas senior program coordinator, provided testimony before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of US House of Representatives on Tuesday. Lauría emphasized that violence and government harassment...
Chishti abducted, beaten: Challenge for Pakistan
September 6, 2013 2:10 PM ET
Ali Chishti, who writes for The Friday Times, has gone public in Islamabad with details of his abduction and beating last Friday, August 30. Chishti is making the rounds of TV talk shows describing how he was picked up in...
Death toll mounts for journalists in Philippines
September 5, 2013 1:11 PM ET
Another Philippine journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday, bringing to at least six the total slain in the country this year. In none of the cases have police determined whether they were killed because of their work...
Radio commentator shot dead in Philippines
August 30, 2013 12:26 PM ET
Bangkok, August 30, 2013--A radio commentator was shot dead in Iligan City on Thursday, the fourth journalist to be murdered in the Philippines in the past month. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to investigate the murder of...
News outlets, Twitter targeted in alleged cyberattacks
August 28, 2013 5:27 PM ET
New York, August 28, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by cyber-attacks on several websites on Tuesday, including The New York Times, whose site was disabled for several hours. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers who...
India should investigate journalist murder in Uttar Pradesh
August 28, 2013 4:45 PM ET
New York, August 28, 2013--Indian authorities must investigate the motives behind the murder of a local journalist in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh last week, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Escapees give hope in cases of journalists missing in Syria
August 28, 2013 1:05 PM ET
It has now been an entire year since Al-Hurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, and freelancer Austin Tice, of the United States, went missing in Syria. But the recent liberation of two freelance journalists held for...
Critical Sri Lankan newspaper editor held at knifepoint
August 26, 2013 3:47 PM ET
New York, August 26, 2013--Five unidentified men entered the Colombo home of a Sunday Leader associate editor and writer early Saturday morning, held her at knifepoint, and searched her home, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls...
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