Alerts

New York, August 25, 2009–Four journalists from Uganda’s largest independent newspaper are facing criminal prosecutions, joining four others already charged since 2007, according to local journalists and news reports.

New York, August 25, 2009–The fourth session of the mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, including journalists, took place in Tehran today. The Committee to Protect Journalists is particularly dismayed by procedural irregularities and the fact that the trial is only open to state-owned media. 

New York, August 25, 2009–Masked assailants on Monday stormed a radio station and a television outlet critical of the country’s interim government, forcing the broadcasters off the air in the latest attack on the Honduran media. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Honduran authorities to ensure that all journalists can work safely in an…

New York, August 24, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an end to an ongoing government crackdown on independent journalists in Somaliland.

New York, August 24, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a Mauritanian court’s decision to sentence an online editor to six months in prison.

New York, August 24, 2009–Authorities in Pakistan’s northwest tribal regions must immediately investigate today’s murder of Afghan journalist Janullah Hashimzada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

New York, August 21, 2009–Prosecutors in Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia in southern Siberia, should drop their defamation charges against online editor Mikhail Afanasyev, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The charges are tied to a blog entry about Monday’s explosion at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant that killed dozens of workers,…

New York, August 20, 2009–Security forces obstructed, assaulted, and detained Afghan and foreign journalists in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan today, enforcing an official gag order on news of violent incidents during the presidential election. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai told the press that information about attacks would discourage voter turnout.