Libya

2011

  

New Libyan rule halts delivery of journalist visas

Dear Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib: The Committee to Protect Journalists has been monitoring with growing concern the difficulties that many foreign journalists have been experiencing in obtaining a visa to your country.

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For journalists, coverage of political unrest proves deadly

Journalists die at high rates while covering protests in the Arab world and elsewhere. Photographers and freelancers appear vulnerable. Pakistan is again the deadliest nation. A CPJ special report

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Imprisonments jump worldwide, and Iran is worst

Stark regional differences are seen as jailings grow significantly in the Middle East and North Africa. Dozens of journalists are held without charge, many in secret prisons. A CPJ special report

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Rebel Fighter. Libya, April 2011. (Tim Hetherington/Magnum Photos)

Hetherington exhibition opens new Documentary Center

CPJ is proud to support the inaugural exhibition this weekend of the Bronx Documentary Center, featuring work by acclaimed photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed in an explosion in Libya in April.

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NATO responds to CPJ, but questions remain unanswered

On August 4, CPJ wrote to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen requesting information about the July 30 attacks on broadcast facilities in Libya in which NATO aircraft destroyed three broadcast dishes. As we noted in our letter, CPJ is concerned any time a media outlet faces a military attack. Such attacks can only be…

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Rebel fighters outside Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel. (AP/Sergey Ponomarev)

Six Libyan journalists still missing

New York, August 25, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of four Italian journalists kidnapped Wednesday, but remains concerned about the safety of at least six Libyan journalists who have been missing since the start of the uprising in February.

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Journalist escapes Libyan prison after months in captivity

New York, August 24, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the news that U.S. journalist Matthew VanDyke escaped with several inmates from Abu Salim prison in Tripoli today. VanDyke’s mother told CPJ that he called her with the news of his escape and that he is safe and in good spirits. He also told his…

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Journalists kidnapped in Libya should be released

New York, August 24, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the kidnappers of four Italian journalists seized in Tripoli today to release them immediately.

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Video: Journalists holed up in Rixos Hotel

About 35 international journalists remained holed up in Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel today, unable to leave the location, according to news reports. New video from The Guardian, above, shows reporters and photojournalists inside the hotel. BBC correspondent Matthew Price said conditions “deteriorated massively” overnight as forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi patrolled the corridors. UPDATE: Journalists in…

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Trapped journalists in Tripoli must be treated as civilians

New York, August 22, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on all forces fighting in Tripoli to ensure the safety of journalists and respect their status as civilians.

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2011