Syrian-American journalist killed in Turkey
September 22, 2017 1:51 PM ET
New York, September 22, 2017--Syrian-American journalist Halla Barakat and her mother, Syrian opposition activist Orouba Barakat, were found dead yesterday in their Istanbul apartment, the Turkish news agency DHA reported today. Friends alerted the police when Halla Barakat, 23, did not show up for her reporting job at the...
Photojournalist charged with terrorism in Turkey
September 15, 2017 3:39 PM ET
New York, September 15, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Turkish authorities to immediately release photojournalist Çağdaş Erdoğan, and drop the anti-state charges against him. An Istanbul court on September 13 formally charged Erdoğan with terrorism, according to the volunteer journalist collective 140journos....
Paraguayan judge releases drug trafficker who had planned to kill journalist
September 11, 2017 3:29 PM ET
New York, September 11, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned for the safety of Paraguayan journalist Cándido Figueredo Ruiz following the release from prison of an alleged drug trafficker who had previously planned to kill him....
Independent journalist Yulia Latynina flees Russia following attacks
September 11, 2017 3:12 PM ET
New York, September 11, 2017--Russian journalist Yulia Latynina, who writes a column for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and hosts a weekly radio show on Ekho Moskvy, has fled Russia after a series of attacks, according to local and international reports. In the latest incident on September 3, attackers...
Kazakh editor convicted of money laundering, banned from journalism
September 7, 2017 12:33 PM ET
New York, September 7, 2017--A Kazakh court today handed down a suspended prison sentence to Zhanbolat Mamay, editor of the independent newspaper Sayasi kalam/Tribuna, for charges of money laundering, and banned him from working as a journalist for three years, according to media reports. Mamay said he plans to...
Cameroon releases three journalists jailed under anti-terror law
September 1, 2017 1:57 PM ET
New York, September 1, 2017--The office of President Paul Biya announced August 30 that Cameroon is ending criminal proceedings against those detained during unrest in the country's two English-speaking regions. Atia Tilarious Azohnwi, political editor of The Sun, Tim Finnian, editor of Life Time magazine, and Hans Achomba, a...
Ukraine's security service deports Russian journalist
August 30, 2017 6:01 PM ET
New York, August 30, 2017-- Russian journalist Anna Kurbatova was today grabbed on the street in the center of Kiev by unknown people and later deported, according to her employer Russian state television's Channel One. Ukraine's security service (SBU) said authorities have banned the journalist from entering Ukraine for...
Ukraine bars Spanish journalists over coverage of conflict in east
August 29, 2017 1:40 PM ET
New York, August 29, 2017--The Security Service of Ukraine today said that it barred the Spanish freelance journalists Antonio Pampliega and Ángel Sastre from entering the country for three years over their reporting on the conflict in the east, according to news reports....
Azerbaijan detains head of Turan news agency
August 24, 2017 3:47 PM ET
New York, August 24, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Azerbaijani authorities today to immediately release Mehman Aliyev, head of the country's only independent news agency, Turan. Azerbaijan's Tax Ministry today ordered Aliyev to be detained as part of an investigation launched against Turan last week into allegations...