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We announced the 2008 International Press Freedom Award recipients on Tuesday, and the news has been well-received worldwide. Bilal Hussein of Iraq, Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad of Afghanistan, Andrew Mwenda of Uganda, and Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez of Cuba will all be honored by CPJ on November 25 for their courageous work. Beatrice Mtetewa, of Zimbabwe will…

Dear Prosecutor Kondalov: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the harassment by the authorities in the city of Perm of the independent weekly Permsky Obozrevatel.

An Archive of Special Reports from Around the World 2000-2004

Namibian journalists worry that President Nujoma is tightening his grip on the media.

New York, November 20, 2002–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today presented the recipients of its 2002 International Press Freedom Awards at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

New York, May 10, 2002–In the latest wave of Iran’s ongoing crackdown on the press, the country’s conservative Press Court has sentenced two journalists to prison and banned three newspapers during the last two weeks. CPJ learned that on May 8, Iran’s Press Court convicted Mohsen Mirdamadi, a member of Parliament and director of the…

Uzbekistan has one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world, as the author learned when she launched her journalism career in Tashkent.

[Unofficial Translation from Portuguese Original] LAW NO. ———/2000OF —————–/2000The pluralism of expression, as a consequence of the respect for democratic freedom and for freedom of the human being, requires, for its realization, a press law which should aim at guaranteeing press freedom, enshrined in Article 35 of the Constitutional Law.