CPJ seeks investigation into Israeli border case
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express alarm about the treatment of an award-winning Palestinian journalist who said he was abused by Israeli Shin Bet agents at the Allenby Bridge border crossing between Israel and Jordan late last month.
Cameraman shot by Israeli forces while covering Gaza clashes
New York, July 6, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by Thursday’s shooting of a Palestinian cameraman by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Imad Ghanem, a cameraman for the Hamas-affiliated satellite channel Al-Aqsa, was filming paramedics transferring victims of an Israeli tank shell in the eastern part of Bureij refugee camp in central…
CPJ troubled by terror charges against outspoken Yemeni editor
New York, July 5, 2007–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by vague terrorism charges brought on Wednesday against the editor of an opposition news Web site. A state security court charged Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, former editor of the online newspaper Al-Shoura, which is affiliated with the Popular Forces Union Party, with conspiring with…
The Moroccan Facade
Ahmed Reda Benchemsi, the 33-year-old publisher of the independent Moroccan weekly TelQuel, sensed someone was trying to send him a message. In a matter of months, two judges had ordered him to pay extraordinarily high damages in a pair of otherwise unremarkable defamation lawsuits.
BBC correspondent Alan Johnston Freed
New York, July 3, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the release early Wednesday morning local time of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who had been held captive for nearly four months in the Gaza Strip. CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said: “We are relieved that Alan Johnston has finally been freed after this cruel ordeal.…
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New York, June 25, 2007—A BBC reporter held for more than 100 days by militants in the Gaza Strip appeared in a newly released videotape warning against attempts to free him by force. In the videotape made public today, Alan Johnston wore what he said was an explosive belt and warned that his captors would…
Yemen: Editor detained on terrorism allegations
New York, June 20, 2007–The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Yemeni authorities to detail terrorism accusations it has leveled against an opposition newspaper editor detained today by government forces at his home in the capital, Sana’a. At around noon on Wednesday, Yemeni security agents raided the home of Abdelkarim al-Khaiwani, editor of the online…