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Thai government issues censorship decree

April 14, 2009 2:30 PM EDT

New York, April 14, 2009–As part of its declaration of a state of emergency on Sunday, the Thai government issued a decree that empowered officials to censor news considered a threat to national security, according to international and local news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the government to immediately rescind this order…

CPJ calls for journalist security amid Thai protests

April 10, 2009 11:35 AM EDT

New York, April 10, 2009–Both sides in Thailand’s escalating political conflict should refrain from targeting the press and should guarantee the security of journalists covering the street protests that have paralyzed traffic in the capital, Bangkok, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Russian newspaper founder arrested, criminally charged

April 1, 2009 4:54 PM EDT

New York, April 1, 2009–Police in the western city of Kaliningrad should drop trumped-up bribery charges against Arseny Makhlov, the founder of the independent weekly Dvornik, and allow him to work without fear of harassment, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Two radio stations shut down in DRC

March 31, 2009 4:50 PM EDT

New York, March 31, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the southeastern Congolese city of Likasi to allow two private stations to return to the air.

A legal victory for press freedom in Bility case

By Joel Simon/Executive Director on March 27, 2009 1:58 PM EDT

Testifying at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Liberian journalist Hassan Bility described a harrowing 1997 reporting trip to Sierra Leone in which he documented Liberian government support for the brutal RUF rebels. His testimony was undoubtedly damaging to defendant Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president on trial for war crimes and…

Moroccan newspaper fined again for same story

March 26, 2009 2:08 PM EDT

New York, March 26, 2009–The Casablanca court of appeals in Morocco should overturn two suspended jail sentences and fines against an independent newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

A photo of police taking away Espinosa Chepe hangs in his home.

Black Spring of 2003: A former Cuban prisoner speaks

By Oscar Espinosa Chepe on March 17, 2009 4:31 PM EDT

March 18, 19, and 20 will mark the sixth anniversary of the detention of 75 peaceful journalists and librarians, as well as human rights activists, convicted weeks later to up to 28 years in jail during summary trials. Fifty-four of these innocent people, who demanded a democratic society and respect for human rights, remain imprisoned…

CPJ awardee Mtetwa faces possible arrest in Zimbabwe

March 13, 2009 2:14 PM EDT

New York, March 13, 2009–The Zimbabwean attorney general’s office should halt a baseless criminal investigation into human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Gabon media silent on French freezing president’s assets

By Mohamed Keita/Africa Research Associate on February 27, 2009 4:05 PM EST

News that a judge in France froze the private bank accounts of Gabon’s President Omar Bongo was all over the international media but barely a word appeared in the national press.

Remarks from Cuban journalist Alejandro Gonzalez Raga

By No Archive on February 13, 2009 11:47 AM EST

Exiled Cuban journalist Alejandro Gonzalez Raga spoke to reporters in Madrid on Monday as part of CPJ’s launch of our book, Attacks on the Press. He talked about the brutality of life in a Cuban prison, the torture he and other journalists who were jailed for their writing endured. Here are his remarks, in Spanish: