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On the table: Why now is the time to sway Rouhani to meet his promises for press freedom in Iran
May 24, 2018 12:00 AM ET
President Hassan Rouhani sought re-election on the promise of a more open Iran. But little has changed for the press, as hardliners in the judiciary and other powerful institutions jail journalists, block websites, and maintain a climate of fear with harassment and surveillance. The current international focus on Iran...
On the table
May 24, 2018 12:00 AM ET
Why now is the time to sway Rouhani to meet his promises for press freedom in Iran President Hassan Rouhani came to power in 2013 on a platform of pledges to roll back the repressive policies of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who decimated Iran’s once vibrant media. Rouhani, seeking...
Covering LGBTQ issues brings risk of threats and retaliation for journalists and their sources
May 17, 2018 10:00 AM ET
To mark the annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, CPJ spoke with journalists and news outlets based in Argentina, Iran, Indonesia, the U.S., Uganda, and Russia, about the challenges they face reporting on LGBTQ issues....
CPJ to release report on press freedom in Iran
May 16, 2018 12:07 PM ET
New York, May 16, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its report, "On the table: Why now is the time to sway Rouhani to meet his promises for press freedom in Iran," on May 24, 2018. CPJ will mark the launch of the report with a panel discussion in...
Iran arrests two journalists covering crackdown on religious protests
March 1, 2018 9:35 AM ET
New York, March 1, 2018--Iranian security forces on February 19 arrested Reza Entessari and Kasra Nouri, reporters with the Sufi news website Majzooban-e-Noor, while they were covering the violent dispersal of religious protests in Tehran, according to their employer and the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran...
Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repression
December 13, 2017 12:00 AM ET
For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers--Turkey, China, and Egypt--into improving the bleak climate for press freedom. A CPJ special report by Elana...
CPJ calls on UN to support resolution on human rights in Iran
November 7, 2017 4:35 PM ET
CPJ, along with over 30 Iranian and international human rights organizations, has called on the U.N. General Assembly to vote in favor of a proposed resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran next week....
Press at risk as EU-based companies export surveillance software to hostile regimes
October 10, 2017 6:02 PM ET
In August, Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen told the daily newspaper Information that the government had authorized sales of online surveillance software to several Middle Eastern countries. While acknowledging the potential for human rights violations that could result from the use of these tools, the minister said that Denmark...