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Two foreign reporters brutally assaulted in Azerbaijan

June 16, 2011 3:51 PM EDT

New York, June 16, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the vicious beating in Baku of international journalists Amanda Erickson and Celia Davies, and calls on the authorities to bring their attackers to justice.

Rowe elected CPJ chairman

June 16, 2011 12:01 PM EDT

New York, June 16, 2011–Sandra Mims Rowe, a distinguished editor with a record of journalistic and civic leadership, has been elected chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Rowe succeeds Paul Steiger, president and editor-in-chief of ProPublica. Steiger served as CPJ chairman since 2005.

Urinboy Umanov, left, at work in Tajikistan.(BBC World Service)

Tajikistan detains BBC correspondent on extremism charges

June 16, 2011 11:57 AM EDT

New York, June 16, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention and reported beating in custody of Urinboy Usmonov, a local correspondent for the BBC Central Asia service, and calls for his immediate release.

Having captured killing on tape, cameraman fears for his life

By Mazhar Abbas/CPJ Guest Blogger on June 16, 2011 11:22 AM EDT

Abdul Salam Somroo is in danger. He is the Awaz TV cameraman who took the June 9 video footage of the pointblank murder of a young man, Sarfaraz Shah, in southern Karachi. That’s the same part of the city where militants beheaded American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Only when Somroo got…

African jitters over blogs and social media

By Magnus Ag on June 15, 2011 6:47 PM EDT

BBC’s correspondent Karen Allen reports from a workshop held in Johannesburg, South Africa, co-organized by Global Voices, Google Africa, and CPJ. CPJ’s Danny O’Brein and Tom Rhodes are quoted in the article. Click here for the full story

Beyond the Amina hoax: Real cases in the Middle East

By Danny O'Brien/CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator on June 15, 2011 6:07 PM EDT

A Gay Girl in Damascus was a personal blog, said to be written by a young woman named Amina Arraf, that appeared to give an everyday record of being a lesbian in modern-day Syria. Following the events of the Arab Spring, as the political situation in Syria grew less stable, the blog attracted more readers…

In Iran, journalists remain in government’s crosshairs

June 15, 2011 5:46 PM EDT

New York, June 15, 2011–Iran’s ongoing assault against independent and opposition media has recently gained momentum, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In recent weeks, a journalist died in custody for what his family said was a lack of adequate medical care, the government sentenced another journalist to 20 years in prison, arrested one…

Sierra Leone journalist murdered; suspects in custody

June 15, 2011 5:26 PM EDT

New York, June 15, 2011–Police in Sierra Leone have arrested three suspects, including a police officer, for the killing of a reporter this Sunday during violent clashes over a land dispute on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, according to local journalists. Ibrahim Foday, 38, a reporter at the private daily newspaper The Exclusive, was beaten and…

Corrective: Journalist reported killed in Peshawar is alive

June 15, 2011 4:43 PM EDT

New York, June 15, 2011–Pakistani journalist Shafiullah Khan is in critical condition after suffering extensive burns in a double bombing in Peshawar on Saturday. CPJ erroneously reported on Monday that Khan had died in the attack.

The war against journalists in the Middle East

By Magnus Ag on June 14, 2011 7:10 PM EDT

On June 14, Foreign Policy ran a piece by CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem. Taking a starting point in the case of missing freelance journalist Matthew VanDyke, Abdel Dayem analyzes the trends in press freedom violations in Libya and across the Middle East. Click here for the full story…