CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2010
20th Annual Ceremony and Dinner To benefit the Committee to Protect Journalists Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Grand Ballroom The Waldorf-Astoria New York City We would like to thank all of our supporters and dinner chairman Sir Howard Stringer for a record-setting awards dinner that raised over $1.5 million, allowing CPJ to continue at the forefront…
Laureano Márquez IPFA 2010 Video
Laureano Márquez, a columnist for Tal Cual in Venezuela, was accused of orchestrating a coup based on satirical columns about President Hugo Chávez. His persecution highlights the Venezuelan government’s systematic attacks on journalists. Márquez is a 2010 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee. Read about other awardees here.
Dawit Kebede IPFA 2010 Video
Dawit Kebede is managing editor of the Awramba Times in Ethiopia. After the government’s crackdown on the press in 2005, he survived a 19-month prison term to restart the only remaining independent media outlet in Ethiopia. Kebede is a 2010 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee. Read about other awardees here.
Mohammad Davari IPFA 2010 Video
Mohammad Davari, editor-in-chief of the news website Saham News, is being held at Evin Prison in Iran for compiling testimony of detainees who were raped and tortured at Kahrizak Detention Center. Davari is a 2010 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee. Read about other awardees here.
Journalists in Exile 2010
An exodus from Iran, East Africa At least 85 journalists fled their home countries in the past year in the face of attacks, threats, and possible imprisonment. High exile rates are seen in Iran and in the East African nations of Somalia and Ethiopia. A CPJ Special Report by María Salazar-Ferro
2010 Impunity Index Data
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2011 Impunity Index Data
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CPJ, partners file ECtHR amicus brief on spyware use against journalists in Azerbaijan
The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with partners Access Now, Data Rights, and Human Constanta, filed an amicus brief on April 21 to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the use of spyware to silence journalists, activists, and human rights defenders. The brief was filed in support of a group of cases involving the secret surveillance…
CPJ, partners urge Malta to take action on media reforms
CPJ joins four press freedom and journalist organizations to call on the Maltese authorities to make long-overdue media reforms an immediate priority, and to commit to meaningful and transparent collaboration with national and international civil society. The assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed in a car bomb attack in 2017, generated…