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Obama, Clinton acknowledge World Press Freedom Day

By Frank Smyth/Washington Representative and Journalist Security Coordinator on May 1, 2009 3:35 PM EDT

Barack Obama first addressed press freedom as a global issue back when he was visiting his father’s native Kenya as a senator in 2006. “Press freedom is like tending a garden, it’s never done,” Obama told reporters in Nairobi after a recent Kenyan government crackdown on the press. “It continually has to be nurtured and…

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…

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…

Tissainayagam and colleagues in Sri Lankan jail for one year

March 6, 2009 2:07 PM EST

New York, March 6, 2009–The Sri Lankan government should release a journalist and his two colleagues who have spent a year behind bars on terrorism charges for publishing magazine articles, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Argentine court orders official ads into critical publications

February 19, 2009 1:44 PM EST

New York, February 19, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes a recent Argentine court ruling that orders the government to place state advertisements in critical publications.

Attacks on the Press in 2008: Brazil

By Mick Stern on February 10, 2009 12:45 AM EST

The kidnapping and torture of two journalists and a driver working undercover in Rio de Janeiro exposed the risks to Brazilian journalists, especially those reporting on organized crime in urban areas. Throughout the country, journalists covering mayoral and legislative campaigns faced legal and physical harassment.

Attacks on the Press in 2008: Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Mick Stern on February 10, 2009 12:39 AM EST

Two years after transitioning to democracy in historic U.N.-backed elections, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was one of the most perilous countries in Africa for journalists. For the fourth consecutive year, a journalist was murdered in unclear circumstances, this time in the unstable, strife-torn east of the country.

Attacks on the Press in 2008: Europe and Central Asia Developments

By Mick Stern on February 10, 2009 12:35 AM EST

Attacks on the Press in 2008: Lebanon

By Mick Stern on February 10, 2009 12:25 AM EST

This deeply divided country reached the brink of full-scale conflict in mid-year after political and religious leaders used the news media to inflame sectarian divisions and failed to abide by the consensual style of government agreed upon at the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. A battle of words that began in December 2006 with…

Attacks on the Press in 2008: Rwanda

By Mick Stern on February 10, 2009 12:16 AM EST

On paper, Rwanda had more private newspapers and radio stations than at any point in its history. In practice, independent news coverage was minimal due to business woes and government intimidation. One critical editor was forced to flee the country, and a second was deported. Legislation pending in late year would stiffen accreditation requirements and…