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The launch of the Global Network Initiative, a set of principles outlying how Internet companies should conduct themselves in countries that stifle free speech, is making news this morning with the official Web site, Globalnetworkinitiative.org, going live today. Forbes.com, TechNewsWorld, and PCMag.com are all running stories about three major tech companies and human rights organizations agreeing to…

I met Anna Politkovskaya in person only once, in 2005. She was in New York to collect yet another journalism award, and stopped by CPJ one October afternoon. I remember her crossing the lobby with an even, determined step. She had an urgency about her–that rare focus that comes only with absolute clarity about one’s…

October 2008News from the Committee to Protect Journalists

Tunisia wants you to believe it is a progressive nation that protects human rights. It is, in fact, a police state that aggressively silences anyone who challenges President Ben Ali.

IPFA Awards 2008 To Attend the Awards Dinner (PDF) Bilal Hussein Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad Andrew Mwenda Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez Beatrice Mtetwa New York, September 16, 2008–The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor courageous journalists from Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, and Cuba with its 2008 International Press Freedom Awards at a ceremony in November. Bilal…

To Attend the Benefit Dinner (PDF) | Awards 2008 | Announcement of the Awardees | Bilal Hussein | Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad | Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez|  Beatrice Mtetwa Andrew Mwenda, one of Uganda’s leading political journalists, is managing editor of the bimonthly newsmagazine, The Independent, based in the capital, Kampala. A press freedom advocate throughout…

Imprisoned since March 2003 To Attend the Benefit Dinner (PDF)  | Awards 2008 |Announcement of the Awards |  Bilal Hussein| Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad | Andrew Mwenda | Beatrice Mtetwa Maseda Gutiérrez, 65, is the oldest of 21 journalists behind bars in Cuba. Arrested in the government’s March 2003 crackdown on the independent press, he…

To Attend the Benefit Dinner (PDF) | Awards 2008 |Announcement of the Awardees | Bilal Hussein| Andrew Mwenda |  Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez  |  Beatrice Mtetwa Karokhel and Nekzad are journalists and media rights activists in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for the press. Karokhel is director and Nekzad is managing editor and deputy director of…

To Attend the Benefit Dinner (PDF)| Awards 2008 |Announcement of the Awards | Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad | Andrew Mwenda | Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez | Beatrice Mtetwa Bilal Hussein, 37, made his mark as a photographer for The Associated Press during the 2004 battle of Fallujah. The city, a stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq and its…

Our announcement of the 2008 International Press Freedom Award winners has gotten coverage today, with stories running in the Arab, African, and Asian press. The Philippine-based Pinoy Press has an article about the awardees, and The Zimbabwe Independent reports on the winners but leads with the news of Beatrice Mtetwa winning CPJ’s Burton Benjamin Award. In the Arab press, the…