Hong Kong editor sentenced to 21 months on sedition charges
Taipei, September 26, 2024 — A Hong Kong court on Thursday sentenced two former Stand News editors on charges of conspiracy to publish seditious publications following their convictions in late August. Chung Pui-kuen received one year and nine months in prison, and Patrick Lam, who received 11 months, was released after the hearing as he…
Hong Kong denies work visa to photojournalist Louise Delmotte
Taipei, September 25, 2024—Hong Kong authorities should renew Associated Press (AP) photojournalist Louise Delmotte’s visa, and allow foreign correspondents to work freely in the city, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. “Denying Louise Delmotte’s entry is a petty act of retaliation against her journalistic work,” said Iris Hsu, CPJ’s China representative. “This pattern…
Quimy de León, Guatemala
CPJ is honored to present its 2024 International Press Freedom Award to Guatemalan journalist Quimy de León. Quimy de León is a Guatemalan journalist, medical professional, and historian with over 20 years of professional experience. She is one of Guatemala’s leading journalists and has collaborated with international outlets such as Forbidden Stories. In 2012, de León…
Belarusian journalist Andrei Tolchyn released following presidential pardon
New York, September 18, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the September 17 release of Belarusian journalist Andrei Tolchyn, who received a presidential pardon after serving almost a year of a two-and-a-half year prison sentence. “While we welcome the release of journalist Andrei Tolchyn, he should not have spent a single day in prison,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe…
Gulistan Tara
Gulistan Tara, a 40-year-old Kurdish journalist from Turkey with Chatr Multimedia Production Company, was killed on August 23, 2024, when a Turkish drone strike hit her unmarked car near Goptapa village in Iraqi Kurdistan’s northeastern Sulaymaniyah province. Two Kurdish Iraqi colleagues were also in the car: Hero Bahadin was killed and Rebin Bakir was injured….
Hero Bahadin
Hero Bahadin, a 27-year-old Kurdish Iraqi video editor with Chatr Multimedia Production Company, was killed on August 23, 2024, when a Turkish drone strike hit her unmarked car near Goptapa village in Iraqi Kurdistan’s northeastern Sulaymaniyah province. Gulistan Tara, a Kurdish journalist from Turkey, one of two colleagues in the car, was also killed. Rebin…
Mexico City police arrest 2 journalists at human rights protest
Mexico City, September 9, 2024—Police beat at least two journalists and arrested two others during a protest for human rights in Xochimilco, a southern borough of Mexico City, on Thursday, September 5, according to members of the media who witnessed the incidents. “By brutally repressing a social protest and attacking journalists who were simply covering…
Ibrahim Abdallah (Ibrahim Showtime)
Freelance journalist Ibrahim Abdallah was killed at his home in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, on June 28 or 29, 2024, after the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled his house and other buildings in the state capital, according to multiple news reports and a local journalist following the case, who spoke…
CPJ, others: China criminalizing journalism in Hong Kong with Stand News verdict
Taipei, September 2, 2024—Hong Kong authorities are criminalizing normal journalistic work with the “openly political” conviction of two editors from the shuttered news portal Stand News for subversion, the Committee to Protect Journalists and four other rights groups said. By weaponizing the legal system against journalists, China has ruthlessly reneged on guarantees given to Hong…
Hong Kong is ‘descending further into authoritarianism’
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned Thursday’s conviction by a Hong Kong court of former Stand News editors Patrick Lam and Chung Pui-kuen on charges of conspiracy to publish seditious publications and called on authorities to stop using anti-state charges against journalists. The ruling showed that Hong Kong is “descending further into authoritarianism,” CPJ Asia…