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Venezuela bars RCTV, 5 other stations from cable, satellite

January 25, 2010 5:13 PM EST

New York, January 25, 2010—Venezuelan regulators have ordered cable and satellite operators to stop carrying one of the country’s best known broadcasters, RCTV International, along with five other stations, alleging that the broadcasters violated a requirement to air President Hugo Chávez’s speeches. The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Venezuelan authorities today to allow all of…

As Sri Lanka election nears, pro-opposition writer vanishes

January 25, 2010 2:04 PM EST

New York, January 25, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the reported disappearance of Prageeth Eknelygoda, a political reporter for the Sri Lankan news Web site Lanka eNews.

Denials aside, repression as usual online in China

By Madeline Earp on January 25, 2010 1:28 PM EST

China has denied any involvement in the cyber attacks that Google revealed on January 12, and has said the country’s Internet is open. Local Internet users and entrepreneurs, however, know otherwise.

For Haiti’s Michele Montas, trauma and determination

By Jean Roland Chery/CPJ Haiti consultant on January 25, 2010 12:30 PM EST

Michele Montas, the Haitian journalist and former spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, has experienced a harrowing time in aftermath of the Haitian earthquake. “Haiti appears to be on doomsday,” said Montas, who said she has been shaken by the number of dead and wounded on the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Her own…

Journalists in danger on Comment is Free

By Andrew Levinson on January 25, 2010 12:00 PM EST

CPJ’s Deputy Director Robert Mahoney’s blog “Journalists in danger” was published on The Guardian’s Comment is Free web site on January 21…

Destruction in Port-au-Prince. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)

In Haiti, initial media toll is released

By Jean Roland Chery/CPJ Haiti consultant on January 24, 2010 10:57 AM EST

The Association of Haitian Journalists has recorded at least three media fatalities and one seriously wounded journalist as a preliminary toll from the earthquake that struck the Caribbean island on January 12. In an interview with CPJ from Port-au-Prince, AJH Secretary General Jacques Desrosiers identified the early victims as Wanel Fils, a reporter with Radio…

A photo by Umida Akhmedova from her series Women and Men: From Dawn to Dusk.

Journalist charged with defaming Uzbeks, faces 8 years jail

January 22, 2010 4:32 PM EST

New York, January 22, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Uzbek authorities to immediately drop all charges against Umida Akhmedova, a prominent photojournalist and documentary filmmaker who covers gender, ethnic, and cultural issues, and allow her to continue to do her work without fear of reprisal.

Authorities assault, fire on journalists in Kashmir

January 22, 2010 3:38 PM EST

Local news reports said a photojournalist was shot and five other journalists assaulted in the aftermath of a 22-hour battle between militants and local authorities in Srinagar, summer capital of the troubled north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on January 7, 2010.

CPJ Impact

By Andrew Levinson on January 22, 2010 3:04 PM EST

January 2010News from the Committee to Protect Journalists

Photos by Umida Akhmedova, charged in Uzbekistan

By No Archive on January 22, 2010 3:00 PM EST

Umida Akhmedova, a prominent photojournalist in Uzbekistan, is facing criminal charges of insulting the Uzbek people. The charges stem in part from a 2007 album of photography depicting life in Uzbekistan’s villages. Here is a slide show featuring images from the album. « Previous Image | Next Image »