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Two Spanish journalists, Javier Espinoza and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, taken hostage in Syria more than six months ago, were freed. The Los Angeles Times, among many outlets, covered their release. Read the full story here.

Photojournalist Ahmed Humaidan was among 28 Bahrainis sentenced in a trial today. Humaidan, who has been imprisoned since December 2012, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, according to news reports. The Associated Press quoted CPJ’s research in their coverage of the trial.Read the full story here.

During an attack in Afghanistan, Sardar Ahmad, a senior reporter for Agence France-Presse’s Kabul bureau, was killed. The assailants killed nine, including Ahmad, members of his family including his wife and two children. Mashable quoted CPJ’s MENA program coordinator Sherif Mansour in their article on the attack. Read the full article here.

Turkey banned access to Twitter hours after Prime Minister Erdoğan threatened to shut it down. Internet Advocacy Coordinator Geoff King and Central Asia and Europe Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova, were both interviewed by The New Yorker.Read the full article here.

CPJ’s mission to Pakistan and meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif garnered both domestic and international media attention. The Intentional Business Times was one of the many outlets that detailed the positive outcome of the meeting.Read the full article here.

Following the death of Molhem Barakat last December, The New York Times Lens Blog used CPJ’s data in the discussion of threats to journalists covering Syria.Read the full article here.

After a British-Swedish journalist was killed in Kabul, BuzzFeed quoted Asia Program Coordinator, Bob Dietz, in its coverage of the attack.

Marc Marginedas, a Spanish journalist kidnapped by militants on September 4, 2013, crossed the border into Turkey on March 2, 2014, the Associated Press reported. The story references CPJ data, specifically the estimated thirty journalists still missing in Syria. Read the full story here.

A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted six defendants for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011, according to news reports. Reuters cited CPJ’s data, which says that 46 journalists and media workers have been killed in Pakistan for their work since 2007. Babar’s…

Amidst wide coverage of the trial of Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt, The Daily Beast cites CPJ research in its analysis of media freedom in the country.Read the full article here.