Dawit Kebede Award Acceptance Speech
Dawit Kebede Awramba Times, Ethiopia Acceptance Speech CPJ 2010 International Press Freedom Awards Dinner November 23, 2010 Waldorf Astoria, New York I accept this award on behalf of the staff of our weekly newspaper Awramba Times as well as the scores of Ethiopian journalists who have been jailed or forced into exile and the many…
Laureano Márquez Award Acceptance Speech
Laureano Márquez Tal Cual, Venezuela Acceptance Speech CPJ 2010 International Press Freedom Awards Dinner November 23, 2010 Waldorf Astoria, New York I’m honored to receive this award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. This acknowledgement goes beyond my own work. It recognizes all Venezuelan journalists who, faced with multiple difficulties, from persecution to imprisonment, defend…
J.S. Tissainayagam Award Acceptance Speech
J.S. Tissainayagam Acceptance Speech CPJ 2010 International Press Freedom Awards Dinner November 23, 2010 Waldorf Astoria, New York Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for being late – late by one year that is, to collect my award. Late or not however, it is great honor to be here in New York this evening among you….
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.
Kuwait journalist gets year in jail; faces over a dozen cases
New York, November 23, 2010–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a one-year prison sentence given to Mohammed Abdulqader al-Jassem, a Kuwaiti writer and journalist, on Monday. A criminal court convicted al-Jassem of criminal defamation in connection with an article he published on his personal news blog, Al-Mizan. The case is only one of 18 that the government has…
CPJ Press Freedom Awardee: ‘I always wanted answers’
The last few weeks have been extremely busy for everyone at CPJ as we’ve been preparing for the 2010 International Press Freedom Awards. Today’s press conference in Washington will be followed by a series of events culminating in our awards ceremony Tuesday in New York. As always, the awardees make it special.
Internet Blotter
Egyptian blogger Karim Amer is finally free after four years in prison. Iran launches yet another police force to deal with the Internet, headquartered with the Revolutionary Guard. Its commander says the state plans to quadruple its Internet control budget. Google lobbies U.S. policymakers to consider online censorship a free trade issue. Is breaking into…
In exile in the U.S., Ethiopian journalist struggles forward
After almost a year in exile in America, an icy ocean away from his home in Ethiopia, journalist Samson Mekonnen, left, only recently received his work permit in Washington. In the interim, like most journalists undergoing the emotionally and financially grueling resettlement process, he has relied on friends, family, and international organizations like CPJ to…
Internet blotter
CPJ protested the arrest of Bahrain blogger Ali Abdel Imam back in September — The Wall Street Journal has a story on his continuing detainment. Activism around the imprisonment of Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan continues: PEN Canada is focusing on his case and Canada and France’s foreign ministers have urged his release. Local Thai ISPs are…
Internet Blotter
Omid Memarian gives insight into the Iranian hardliner in-fighting that led to “blogfather” Hossein Derakhshan’s arrest and sentencing.Pakistan blocks Facebook, but doesn’t block militant jihadi sites.What happened when the authorities shut down the Internet in China’s Xinjiang province.”Deleted” Facebook photos can stay available for years (from the excellent Ars Technica, now banned in Iran).Quote of…