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Activists press for secession from Cameroon on October 1. (Le Messager)

Journalist faces unlawful assembly charge in Cameroon

November 8, 2012 6:09 PM EST

New York, November 8, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Cameroonian officials to drop criminal charges against a journalist arrested last month in the southwestern town of Buea for covering a secessionist gathering. The journalist is free on bail but faces a fine and up to six months in jail.

Help free Azimjon Askarov by signing CPJ petition

November 6, 2012 1:55 PM EST

New York, November 6, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists has created this petition, calling on Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev to release unjustly imprisoned journalist Azimjon Askarov without delay.

Journalists temporarily flee Bolivia after harassment

October 19, 2012 5:23 PM EDT

Bogotá, October 19, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the official harassment of two executives of a Bolivian newspaper that has reported on government corruption in the northern department of Pando. Both journalists sought refuge in Brazil for three days after the episode, according to news reports.

Under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government, Turkey has been one of the world's top jailer of journalists. (AFP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Q&A: Yavuz Baydar on Turkey’s press freedom climate

October 16, 2012 3:37 PM EDT

For the past several months, CPJ staff has been researching pervasive press freedom problems in Turkey, including the criminal prosecution of journalists, the use of governmental pressure to engender self-censorship, and the presence of a repressive legal structure. This month, CPJ will release an in-depth report on Turkey’s press freedom crisis. In advance of our…

Police detained a journalist covering this protest by Ethiopian Muslims today. (EthioTube)

Ethiopia harasses Voice of America and its sources

October 5, 2012 5:13 PM EDT

Nairobi, October 5, 2012–Ethiopian authorities should halt their harassment of journalists covering the country’s Muslim community and their intimidation of citizens who have tried to speak to reporters about sensitive religious, ethnic, and political issues, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police in the capital, Addis Ababa, briefly detained Marthe Van Der Wolf, a…

In Indian Kashmir, concerns over Internet censorship

October 4, 2012 6:05 PM EDT

The government of Indian Kashmir has a long record of failing to respond to physical attacks on the press. This week, the possibility that websites like YouTube and Facebook were blocked indicated that online freedoms, too, are under threat.

At least five radio stations attacked in Mali

September 24, 2012 4:14 PM EDT

At least five radio stations were attacked in March 2012 as Tuareg separatists, allied with extremist Islamist militants, pushed the Malian army back from the northeastern region of Gao, according to news reports.

CNN offices in Nigeria harassed by men in plainclothes

September 24, 2012 4:10 PM EDT

Armed men in plainclothes raided the offices of CNN in the commercial capital of Lagos on January 16, 2012, amid nationwide protests over hikes in fuel prices, according to local journalists and news reports.

Journalist, fearing attack, flees town in Mali

September 21, 2012 3:07 PM EDT

Soumaïla Abdoulaye Maïga, a presenter with community station Radio Soni in the northeastern town of Ansongo, went into hiding on April 13, 2012, after being warned of an imminent attack by separatist fighters of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), according to local journalists. After Maïga fled, the fighters raided his house…

In Mali, Islamist militants seize, shut down two stations

September 21, 2012 1:49 PM EDT

Members of Ansar Dine, a Salafist militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, shut down two local radio stations on March 27, 2012, as they seized the northeast town of Kidal from the Malian army, according to local journalists.