CPJ calls on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to reaffirm his commitment to ensuring journalists' safety
September 18, 2017 9:00 AM ET
CPJ calls on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to publically denounce the recent SBU actions against the press and reaffirming his commitment to ensuring journalists' safety.
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)...
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,...
Ukraine expels Russian journalists trying to cover Eurovision contest
May 10, 2017 10:34 AM ET
Ukraine's state border service blocked Maria Remizova and Elena Boduen, correspondents of the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Ramil Sitdikov, a photojournalist of the Moscow-based pro-Kremlin broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today), from entering the country, according to reports. The...
From Fledgling to Failed
April 25, 2017 8:03 AM ET
Even as the country collapses, South Sudan's government will brook no criticism By Jacey Fortin JUBA, South Sudan - The shooting began around 5:15 on a Friday afternoon. Dozens of journalists had gathered in the pressroom at the Presidential Palace--a...
In pivotal election year Kyrgyz media face verbal assaults from president and legal action
March 28, 2017 1:57 PM ET
In Kyrgyzstan, once Central Asia's most liberal country, President Almazbek Atambayev is tightening his grip on critical voices, including independent journalists and foreign media....
Seven journalists denied entry to Gambia ahead of contested inauguration
January 18, 2017 6:50 PM ET
Lagos, Nigeria, January 18, 2017--Seven international journalists planning to report on the inauguration of Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow tomorrow were denied entry to the country on January 16, according to reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists denounced the obstruction...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of January 15
January 17, 2017 11:53 AM ET
Newspaper distributor says security officers abducted, beat him Barış Boyraz, a former distributor for the shuttered Kurdish-language daily Azadiya Welat, told the daily newspaper Evrensel that men he believes to be plainclothes police on December 17, 2016, abducted him...
Turkey's crackdown propels number of journalists in jail worldwide to record high
December 13, 2016 12:00 AM ET
At least 81 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey, all of them facing anti-state charges, in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown that has included the shuttering of more than 100 news outlets. The 259 journalists in jail worldwide is the...