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2009

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Family’s ‘truth teller’ speaks: Kati Marton at CPJ

October 15, 2009 5:38 PM EDT

Author and CPJ board member Kati Marton’s parents worked as foreign correspondents in Budapest during the Cold War in the 1950s, exposing Marton to the grit of living in a Communist state. She described feelings of alienation and displacement she felt as a child to an audience at CPJ’s New York offices today. “We lived…

Russian TV crew threatened, forced to leave Ingushetia

October 15, 2009 5:13 PM EDT

New York, October 15, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns threats and an attack on a TV crew from the Moscow-based independent broadcaster REN-TV in the North Caucasian republic of Ingushetia that caused them to flee the region.

Jailed journalist’s wife hopes for release in time for birth

October 15, 2009 11:14 AM EDT

On Monday, two weeks before her October 26 due date, Paola Gourley, the wife of jailed Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, at left, was rushed to the hospital after she suffered bleeding due to stress. From the London Metropolitan Hospital, her pleas for the release for her husband—who is nearing his 120th day in prison in…

Clinton raises impunity in journalist murders in Russia

October 14, 2009 3:00 PM EDT

When CPJ issued its recent special report Anatomy of Injustice: The Unsolved Killings of Journalists in Russia, we called on world leaders to join us in engaging Russian leaders on human rights, press freedom, and impunity. We were pleased to hear Secretary Hillary Clinton do just that today when she spoke about impunity at a…

Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentenced

October 9, 2009 3:17 PM EDT

New York, October 9, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentences given to journalists at the weekly newspaper Nota on defamation charges on Thursday.

On anniversary, CPJ seeks justice for Politkovskaya

October 7, 2009 4:40 PM EDT

On the third anniversary of the murder of Novaya Gazeta investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement:

CPJ dismayed by Russian denial of visa to RSF

October 6, 2009 12:35 PM EDT

We issued the following statement after Paris-based press freedom group Reporters without Borders (RSF) said its Secretary General Jean-François Julliard and a staffer were refused Russian visas to attend events marking the October 7, 2006 murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya…

Online journalist harassed, threatened in Moscow

September 30, 2009 5:23 PM EDT

New York, September 30, 2009—Moscow police must immediately investigate and bring to an end a campaign of harassment orchestrated in part by a pro-Kremlin organization against online journalist Aleksandr Podrabinek, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

TV crew violently attacked at a protest rally in Ukraine

September 29, 2009 4:41 PM EDT

New York, September 29, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the violent attack on the crew of an opposition Russian-language news channel in Odessa, and urges Ukrainian authorities to thoroughly investigate the incident.

CPJ makes headway in cases in Russia, Georgia

September 25, 2009 12:13 PM EDT

Amid ongoing attacks on journalists, CPJ advocacy in Europe and Central Asia has generated some positive results. Earlier this month, a CPJ delegation met with Russian and European officials, who promised to revisit 17 journalist murders in Russia since 2000. The declared commitment to reverse Russia’s grim record of impunity came after we presented our…