Egyptian journalist Hamdi Kandil faces defamation charge
May 20, 2010 4:13 PM ET
New York, May 20, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit against independent journalist Hamdi Kandil. He faces up to six months in jail and a discretionary fine...
Critical Kuwaiti journalist ordered detained for 21 days
May 19, 2010 3:27 PM ET
New York, May 19, 2010—Kuwaiti authorities should immediately release freelance opposition journalist Mohammed Abdulqader al-Jassem, who has been detained since Sunday on charges of “instigating to overthrow the regime,” “slight to the personage of the emir” and “instigating to dismantle...
CPJ welcomes Armenian vote to decriminalize defamation
May 19, 2010 12:16 PM ET
We issued the following statement today after the National Assembly of Armenia approved on a second reading the decriminalization of defamation, including libel and insult. If signed into law, the amendments to Armenia’s penal and administrative code will remove imprisonment...
Iran sentences Bahari to 13 years in prison, 74 lashes
May 10, 2010 4:52 PM ET
New York, May 10, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a 13-year prison sentence handed down to Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari in absentia on Sunday.Newsweek correspondent Bahari, who was held in detention for four months on manufactured anti-state charges in 2009, was...
‘Crude’ filmmaker’s raw footage subject to subpoena
May 7, 2010 3:01 PM ET
A filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. On Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled that a private firm...
Russian bill gives FSB authority to arrest critical journalists
April 29, 2010 5:41 PM ET
New York, April 29, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges members of Russia’s parliament to reject a sweeping new bill that would return censorship rights to Russia’s KGB successor, the Federal Security Service, if passed....
Is Brazil the censorship capital of the Internet? Not yet
April 28, 2010 3:32 PM ET
Last week, Google published its first set of global government request statistics, showing how many demands it receives to remove content from its servers or hand over private information on its users. Transparency by Internet companies about how much...
Virginia authorities seize images from student paper
April 20, 2010 4:16 PM ET
Attorneys representing a student newspaper and a county prosecutor have agreed to temporarily seal images seized from the newspaper and transfer them to a third party until the dispute over the images is settled, reported The Breeze, the student-run publication of James Madison University in Virginia....
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