2005

China, Cuba, two African nations are top jailers of journalists.Ethiopian crackdown fuels worldwide increase; U.S. is 6th among nations.

Even in the glare of world attention, Ben Ali resorts to strong-arm tactics.

Here are highlights from CPJ’s most recent census of imprisoned journalists, conducted on December 1, 2005:

The Committee to Protect Journalists interviewed three dozen journalists around the country. Here is a sample of topics they said they’d investigate if not for fear of reprisals.

Colombia may be unique in the extent to which its press censors itself in fear of physical reprisals. Powerful economic factors, though hardly exceptional, add yet more pressure.

Threatened on all sides, Colombia’s news media muzzle themselves.

An Uzbek reporter risked her life to tell the world of Andijan assault.

Uprooted journalists struggle to keep careers, independent reporting alive.

Since 1995, when the first independent news agencies emerged in Cuba, dozens of journalists have fled the country to escape harassment, threats, detention, or jail. Many have settled in the United States or Spain, where some continue to work as journalists. Manuel Vázquez Portal, who won CPJ’s 2003 International Press Freedom Award, settled in Miami…

BANGKOK, ThailandAfter Burmese troops fired on democracy demonstrators in August 1988, Aung Zaw, a student who had already been jailed for helping to publish pro-democracy pamphlets, fled into the jungle. Seventeen years later he has yet to return home. Aung Zaw, a pseudonym, is a senior member of a vibrant community of Burmese journalists in…