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ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: 2010 • Main Index AFRICA Regional Analysis: • Across Continent, Governments Criminalize Investigative Reporting Country Summaries • Angola • Cameroon • Democratic Republic of Congo • Ethiopia • Nigeria • Rwanda • Somalia • South Africa • Uganda • Zimbabwe • Other nations BOTSWANA In August, a group of 32 media…

ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: 2010 • Main Index AMERICAS Regional Analysis: • In Latin America, A Return of Censorship Country Summaries • Argentina • Brazil • Colombia • Cuba • Ecuador • Haiti • Honduras • Mexico • United States • Venezuela • Other nations BOLIVIA In October, President Evo Morales signed a measure named…

ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: 2010 • Main Index ASIA Regional Analysis: • Partisan Journalism And the Cycle of Repression Country Summaries • Afghanistan • Burma • China • Indonesia • Nepal • Pakistan • Philippines • Sri Lanka • Thailand • Vietnam • Other nations BANGLADESH An unidentified man threatened photojournalist Shahidul Alam on March…

ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: 2010 • Main Index Europe and Central Asia Regional Analysis: • On the Runet, Old-School Repression Meets New Country Summaries • Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Russia • Serbia • Ukraine • Uzbekistan • Other nations CROATIA In November, the Municipal Court in Zagreb convicted six…

ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: 2010 • Main Index Middle East and North Africa: • Suppression Under the Cover of National Security Country Summaries • Egypt • Iran • Iraq • Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory • Lebanon • Morocco • Sudan • Tunisia • Turkey • Yemen • Other nations ALGERIA In September, police…

AFRICACountry summaries were researched and written by Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita and east Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes.AMERICASCountry summaries were researched and written by Senior Program Coordinator Carlos Lauría, Research Associate José Barbeito, Washington representative Frank Smyth, and program consultants Mike O’Connor and Claudia Duarte. ASIACountry summaries were researched and written by CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz, Senior Research…

This week, CPJ published its year-end analysis of work-related fatalities among journalists. Six of the 42 victims worked online. While you can read the full statistics and our special report elsewhere, I want to highlight the stories of these six journalists who worked on the Web.

As of December 1, 2010    |   » Read the accompanying report: “IRAN, CHINA DRIVE PRISON TALLY TO 14-YEAR HIGH”

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