Sport for Rights

New York, December 5, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the one-year prison sentence handed down on Tuesday to a Tunisian freelance journalist known for his published criticism of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and members of the first family. A court in Sakiet Ezziet, in the suburbs of  Sfax, Tunisia’s second-largest city…

Detailed accounts of each imprisoned journalist.

Detailed accounts of each imprisoned journalist.

New York, November 27, 2007–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the detention of a Tunisian freelance journalist known for his published criticism of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and members of the first family. On Monday, police in Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city, detained Slim Boukhdhir, a well-known blogger and contributor…

Drug fueled violence against the press has spread to the central state of Michoacán. At least two journalists’ lives have been lost, and self-censorship is taking root.

New York, October 12, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack on Thursday on Sid Yanyshev, a Tashkent-based correspondent for the London- based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and contributor to the popular Central Asia news Web site Ferghana. Two men who identified themselves as National Security agents beat him shortly after…

MAY 7, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, freelance journalist HARASSED Shortly after arriving in Mexico City, the driver of a vehicle transporting journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro lost control of the car, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. Federal agents detected that screws had been loosened on one…

Ahmed Reda Benchemsi, the 33-year-old publisher of the independent Moroccan weekly TelQuel, sensed someone was trying to send him a message. In a matter of months, two judges had ordered him to pay extraordinarily high damages in a pair of otherwise unremarkable defamation lawsuits.