Lu Yuyu
Dali police arrested blogger Lu Yuyu in June 2016. He is serving a four-year sentence on accusations of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Police in Dali, Yunnan province, detained Lu and Li Tingyu, who are a couple, on June 15, 2016, on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble, according to Radio Free Asia. Since October 2012, Lu…
Nils Horner
Horner, 51, was shot in the head near the site of a January 2014 Taliban suicide attack on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul’s affluent Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, according to news reports. The assailants shot him at close range and fled the scene. Horner, a Hong Kong-based journalist who held both British and Swedish citizenship,…
Wu Xianghu
Wu, deputy editor of Taizhou Wanbao, died from serious injuries sustained when traffic police in the eastern coastal city of Taizhou, Zhejiang province, attacked him in October 2005 for an exposé that embarrassed them, according to international news reports. Wu, 41, died of liver and kidney failure after months of hospitalization. State-run Xinhua News Agency…
Kyrgyz supreme court refuses to #FreeAzimjon; U.S.-China tit-for-tat media visa war continues
The Kyrgyz Supreme Court upheld journalist and human rights defender Azimjon Askarov’s life sentence, denying his final appeal. Askarov’s health has been steadily deteriorating since being imprisoned in 2010, his family told CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said when she travelled to meet with them and visit Azimjon in prison. The threat…
CPJ, 192 partner organizations urge UN Secretary General to take action to secure release of jailed journalists amid COVID-19
The #FreeThePress campaign, made up of 193 press freedom and human rights organizations and the more than 11,337 concerned citizens who signed the petition, urges the UN secretary general to take immediate action to secure the release of journalists jailed around the world whose lives are risk due to the spread of COVID-19.
Q&A: U.S. photographers navigate a new reality under COVID-19
As newsrooms across the United States gradually shut their doors in March and sent many journalists into the safety of their homes, others have no choice but to remain outside. Photojournalists throughout the U.S. and around the world are continuing to visually document how the world is adjusting to this historic moment amid the COVID-19…
CPJ, 73 media and rights groups urge Asian heads of state to release jailed journalists
Given that a staggering number of imprisoned journalists are held in jails across the Asian continent, CPJ and other groups call on leaders of these countries to release them at this time of grave public health concern.
Pandemic threatens not just lives, but livelihoods for freelancers worldwide
As the global tally of coronavirus cases continues to rise, CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney published a piece in Al Jazeera highlighting why it is so crucial for journalists to be protected during the pandemic. A new blog by CPJ Advocacy Director Courtney Radsch highlights a range of additional concerns for freelance journalists around…
Reporter Brian Hioe on dealing with misinformation in Taiwan amid pandemic
Brian Hioe is an editor for the New Bloom Magazine, a news website that covers social issues, politics, and culture in the Asia Pacific region. He also works as a freelance journalist in Taiwan, where the government has been praised for its responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newspapers suspended in 6 Middle Eastern countries due to COVID-19 fears
Across the Middle East this past month, printing presses have ground to a halt after governments in Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Morocco, Jordan, and Iran suspended the printing and distribution of newspapers, citing COVID-19 fears despite a lack of evidence that it can be transmitted via newsprint. As part of a series of Q&As with journalists…