Documentary filmmaker Mauricio Lezama shot and killed in Colombia
May 13, 2019 4:45 PM ET
Bogotá, May 13, 2019 -- Colombian authorities should conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of documentary filmmaker Mauricio Lezama Rengifo and ensure those responsible are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 10
February 14, 2019 2:41 PM ET
Police detain two journalists in separate raids Police on February 12 detained Salih Turan, a freelance journalist who formerly worked for the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America and the Kurdish service of the Russian-state-funded outlet Sputnik, on accusations...
In Ghana, investigative film crew faces death threats, harassment
June 4, 2018 5:57 PM ET
New York, June 4, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ghanaian member of parliament Kennedy Agyapong to stop threatening investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and those perceived as close to his undercover investigative film, "Number 12," about...
Ban of India's Daughter and other films silences debate on key issues
March 6, 2015 4:01 PM ET
What do Delhi, Beijing, and Villiers-sur-Marne have in common, but Ouagadougou does not? The first three recently banned access to films their governments deemed inappropriate. But a film festival in the fourth, the capital of Burkina Faso in West...
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, October 2013
November 4, 2013 12:44 PM ET
CPJ launches US report Following CPJ's release of its report on the state of press freedom in the United States, the organization is pursuing high-level meetings with the White House. CPJ had drafted six recommendations that were shared with...
Sri Lanka seeks to ID sources for Channel 4 film
March 5, 2013 5:09 PM ET
New York, March 5, 2013--The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry says it wants to identify sources who provided information to the UK-based broadcaster Channel 4 for a new documentary alleging that government forces committed war crimes during the country's long civil...
New film "High Tech, Low Life" on Chinese bloggers
May 1, 2012 5:36 PM ET
"High Tech, Low Life," a new documentary about Chinese bloggers directed by Stephen Maing, debuted at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 19. It documents the lives of Zola (Zhou Shuguang) and Tiger Temple (Zhang...
‘Crude’ filmmaker’s raw footage subject to subpoena
May 7, 2010 3:01 PM ET
A filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. On Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled that a private firm...