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Journalist detained in Libya must be granted all rights

August 10, 2011 3:26 PM EDT

New York, August 10, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Libyan government to immediately extend all recognized legal rights to imprisoned American journalist Matthew VanDyke, who was identified as missing in Libya and is now confirmed to be in state custody, according to a recent news report.

Criminal group threatens crime reporter in Bangladesh

August 10, 2011 3:11 PM EDT

A telephone caller claiming to represent a wanted criminal overseas threatened to kill a senior crime reporter in July 2011 for writing about the drug trade, local news reports and a human rights advocate said.

A photographer holds his head after he was attacked by protesters in east London on Monday. (AP/Karel Prinsloo)

Easy targets, journalists under direct fire in the UK

By Jean-Paul Marthoz/CPJ Senior Advisor on August 10, 2011 1:21 PM EDT

The safety advisories sent out by the International News Safety Institute on Tuesday said it all: “Bring a mobile phone with emergency numbers pre-set for speed dialling; bring eye protection such as swimming goggles; carry first-aid kits and know how to use them; wear loose, natural-fabric clothing as it will not burn as readily as…

NTV cameraman James Ng'ang'a displays his camera, ruined by a bullet fired by a prison guard in Eldoret. (Nation)

Kenyan prison guards shoot cameraman, attack crew

August 9, 2011 4:35 PM EDT

New York, August 9, 2011–Prison officials in western Kenya attacked three journalists working for the private broadcaster Nation Television (NTV) as they were covering an escape attempt by six inmates on Sunday, local journalists told CPJ.

Togolese journalists at Saturday's protest. (Sylvio Combey)

Togo journalists protest purported security threats

By Mohamed Keita/CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator on August 9, 2011 2:14 PM EDT

Dozens of Togolese journalists marched in the capital, Lomé, on Saturday to call attention to reported allegations that government security agents planned to retaliate against critical reporters. The allegations themselves are in dispute–the government called them “fabricated”–but they are set against a recent U.N. report expressing concern over the official use of arbitrary detention and…

CPJ concerned by attacks on journalists in London

August 9, 2011 12:26 PM EDT

The Committee to Protect Journalists is aggrieved by reports that journalists covering the riots in London and other cities are being attacked.

How CPJ began helping journalists with more than letters

By Gene Roberts/CPJ Journalist Assistance Committee Chairman on August 8, 2011 4:42 PM EDT

By the late ’90s, the Committee to Protect Journalists was solving many of its financial problems and building a strong list of dependable contributors. It became possible to consider expanding our activities. Up to this point we were fighting for a free press around the globe mainly by focusing attention on governments that were imprisoning…

Pakistani journalists offer funeral prayers for their slain colleague Saleem Shahzad in June. (AP/B.K.Bangash)

Quantifying the threat to journalists in Pakistan

By Sheryl A. Mendez/CPJ Journalist Assistance Program Associate and Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator on August 5, 2011 3:32 PM EDT

For many journalists working in Pakistan, death threats and menacing messages are simply seen as part of their job. But since December 2010, CPJ’s Journalist Assistance Program (JA) has processed requests for help from 16 journalists in Pakistan who are dealing with threats. Others have told us of threats they have received in the event…

Doctors help fainting victims at a hospital in Luanda. (Radio Ecclesia)

Angola detains journalist over report on mass fainting

August 5, 2011 3:23 PM EDT

New York, August 5, 2011–Angolan authorities should explain Tuesday’s arrest and incommunicado detention of a radio journalist for reporting on a nationwide wave of mass fainting of people, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Radio Simba staffer shot outside his studio in Somalia

August 5, 2011 2:55 PM EDT

New York, August 5, 2011–The logistics manager and driver for Radio Simba, Farah Hassan Sahal, died from bullet wounds early Thursday evening just outside the station’s compound in the restive Bakara Market in the capital, Mogadishu, Radio Simba Director Abdullahi Ali Farah told CPJ. Hassan was helping the station move damaged radio equipment when a…