South Sudan detains director of public broadcaster for more than a week
July 18, 2017 3:19 PM ET
Nairobi, July 18, 2017--South Sudanese authorities should immediately release Adil Faris Mayat, the director of the country's public broadcaster, South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, the Committee to Protect Journalist said today. National Security Service agents arrested Mayat in Juba on...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 16, 2017
July 17, 2017 1:01 PM ET
Germany says Turkey offered prisoner swap for jailed journalist German daily Bild cited an unnamed German diplomatic source as saying that Turkey offered to exchange imprisoned journalist Deniz Yücel for two former generals who sought asylum in Germany. Germany's...
Sudan confiscates, censors newspapers for reporting FIFA suspension
July 13, 2017 4:52 PM ET
New York, July 13, 2017--Sudanese authorities should stop confiscating newspapers and censoring their coverage, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In recent days, the country's security service has confiscated or censored the coverage of at least five newspapers,...
TV journalist detained in Somaliland
July 10, 2017 6:39 PM ET
Nairobi, July 10, 2017--Authorities in Somaliland should immediately release TV journalist Omar Ali Hassan Serbiya, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Security officers arrested Omar when he arrived at Hargeisa on July 8, the administrative capital of the...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 2, 2017
July 5, 2017 10:44 AM ET
Turkish president tells German newspaper jailed correspondent is a terrorist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in an interview published yesterday, told the German newspaper Die Zeit that Die Welt Turkey correspondent, Turkish-German dual national Deniz Yücel, is a terrorist...
CPJ calls for release of Zagros TV journalist detained in Syria
June 29, 2017 1:07 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists writes to the co-chairs of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and authorities governing the Cizire Canton in Syria, to request the release of Zagros TV journalist Barzan Hussein Liani, whom security forces detained in May.
Pakistani journalist taken from home in Balochistan
June 28, 2017 4:35 PM ET
New York, June 28, 2017--Authorities in Pakistan should do everything in their power to ensure the swift release of Zafar Achakzai, a journalist for the newspaper Daily Qudrat, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Independent journalist detained in eastern Cuba
June 23, 2017 5:12 PM ET
New York, June 23, 2017--Cuban authorities should immediately release independent journalist Manuel Alejandro León Velázquez and return his equipment, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. State security forces and Interior Ministry officials detained León Velázquez around 4 p.m....
Kenyan reporter detained for two days on bribery allegation
June 22, 2017 5:44 PM ET
Police in Nairobi on June 18 arrested Sunday Nation journalist Walter Menya on charges of soliciting a bribe of 55,000 Kenyan shillings (U.S.$531) to "write a damaging story in The Nation newspaper," according to a police statement. The amount...
Hamas detains Palestinian journalist in Gaza
June 14, 2017 4:21 PM ET
New York, June 14, 2017---Palestinian authorities in the Gaza Strip should immediately release Fouad Jaradeh, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Jaradeh, a reporter for Palestine TV, the official Palestinian Authority broadcaster based in the West Bank, was...