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Belarusian journalist Pavel Padabed sentenced to 4 years in prison

New York, June 30, 2023—In response to a Belarusian court sentencing journalist Pavel Padabed to four years in prison on Friday, June 30, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement: “The sentencing of Belarusian journalist Pavel Padabed to four years’ imprisonment after a hasty two-day trial is a travesty of justice,” said Gulnoza…

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Belarusian authorities strip Sheremet of citizenship

We issued the following statement after learning that Belarusian authorities have stripped Pavel Sheremet, a prominent journalist living in Russia, of his Belarusian citizenship. In an interview today for the independent news Web site Belarussky Partizan, Sheremet said he received a notice about this from the Belarusian embassy in Moscow. Sheremet said the notice did not…

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1998 Awards – Sheremet speech

Pavel Sheremet Bureau Chief, ORT Russian television Editor, Belarusskaya Delovaya Gazeta Following is the text of a videotaped message from 1998 CPJ International Press Freedom Award recipient Pavel Sheremet of Belarus to guests at an awards ceremony November 24, 1998, at 9 p.m. at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The Belarusian government refused to lift…

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1998 Press Freedom Awards – Sheremet

Pavel Sheremet Bureau Chief, ORT Russian television Editor, Belarusskaya Delovaya Gazeta Pavel Sheremet has endured every conceivable type of official harassment for his coverage of Belarus‘ slide toward authoritarianism. Minsk bureau chief for the Russian public television company ORT since 1996 and editor in chief of the newspaper Belarusskaya Delovaya Gazeta since 1995, Sheremet —…

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Justice denied:

Ukraine must prove its commitment to credibly investigating Sheremet’s murder Pavel Sheremet was a journalist of rare caliber, one whose reporting exemplified the best practices in the countries he covered: Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Despite threats and attacks during his career, Sheremet was not afraid to take on authorities. It was for this reason that…

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A journalist's driver injured by tear gas is evacuated near the national palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 17, 2024. The Caribbean nation became the likeliest nation to let journalists' murderers go free in CPJ's 2024 Global Impunity Index. (Photo: AFP/Clarens Siffroy)

Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows

An overwhelming lack of justice for murdered journalists is a major threat to press freedom. More than a decade after the United Nations declared an International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists – and more than 30 years after CPJ began documenting these killings – nearly 80% remain unsolved. A CPJ report. Two…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a press statement, during the Summit on peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, Saturday, June 15, 2024. Heads of state from around the world gather at the Buergenstock Resort in central Switzerland for the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, on June 15 and 16. MICHAEL BUHOLZER/Pool via REUTERS - RC2NB8AIXHLX

CPJ calls for an end to ‘systematic pressure’ on Ukrainska Pravda

New York, October 10, 2024—Ukrainian authorities should stop obstructing the reporting of independent news outlet Ukrainska Pravda (UP), the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. “Leading independent Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda has paid a steep price for a quarter-century of rigorous reporting. The Ukrainian president’s offices’ efforts to block its work are nothing…

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Faces of impunity across the world

CPJ’s 2023 Global Impunity Index lists the top 12 countries where the murderers of journalists go free. But impunity knows no borders. The mosaic below shows the faces of slain journalists around the world. Beneath each journalist’s photo is the location of their death. Click the images for more details about these unsolved cases. (Photo grid by Geoff McGhee)

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Sevgil Musaieva, Ukraine

CPJ is honored to present its 2022 International Press Freedom Award to Ukrainian journalist Sevgil Musaieva. Sevgil Musaieva is editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine’s leading independent online newspaper covering politics, economics, and culture – and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.    After Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Musaieva mobilized her team to…

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‘Not just statistics’: Ukrainska Pravda editor Sevgil Musaieva on the risks and challenges of covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine  

Twice a day, Sevgil Musaieva, chief editor at Kyiv-based independent news site Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), checks in with her staff, now scattered around the country for security reasons as they report amid Russian missile and rocket attacks. Musaieva knows the high stakes involved in reporting the truth. Two of the outlet’s journalists were killed in retaliation for…

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