CPJ joins call to end impunity in killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
October 16, 2019 11:34 AM ET
Two years after the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and one year after CPJ joined five other organizations in an international press freedom mission to Malta, CPJ and nine other groups once again demanded an end...
One year without justice for Washington Post columnist Khashoggi
September 30, 2019 5:33 PM ET
New York, September 30, 2019—The Committee to Protect Journalists today reiterated its demand to the U.S. and U.N. for transparency and justice for Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and said that it was dismayed by the lack of accountability...
Third journalist killed in Mexico in less than a week
August 6, 2019 6:13 PM ET
Mexico City, August 6, 2019—The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Mexico’s federal government to swiftly and concretely address its press freedom crisis after a third journalist was killed in a week in Mexico. Jorge Celestino Ruiz Vázquez, a...
Deyda Hydara’s daughter: ‘I am still crying’ for murdered Gambian journalist
August 2, 2019 4:16 PM ET
At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of prominent editor Deyda Hydara on December 16 , 2004. He said...
Killing of radio journalist highlights dangers for local reporters in Colombia's border region
July 22, 2019 1:35 PM ET
The otherwise Spartan studio of Samaniego Stereo is adorned by a white banner emblazoned with the image of Libardo Montenegro, a veteran reporter for the community radio station in southern Colombia who was shot dead on June 11. Under...
In BBC interview, Tanzanian foreign minister says journalist Azory Gwanda is dead
July 10, 2019 4:45 PM ET
Nairobi, July 10, 2019 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Tanzanian government to provide a detailed public account of the fate of freelance journalist Azory Gwanda after the country's foreign minister, Palamagamba Kabudi, said in...
US, UN must probe Saudi crown prince role in "extrajudicial killing" of Jamal Khashoggi, report says
June 19, 2019 6:30 AM ET
Paris, June 19, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists today welcomed a United Nations report calling on both the head of the U.N. and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to open criminal probes into the murder of Saudi journalist...
Editor Abdulmumin Gadzhiev detained in Russia on terrorism charges
June 14, 2019 1:44 PM ET
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2019--Authorities in the Russian republic of Dagestan should immediately drop the charges against Makhachkala-based journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev and release him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Mexican reporter Norma Sarabia killed in Tabasco; another journalist kidnapped in Veracruz
June 12, 2019 4:45 PM ET
Mexico City, June 12, 2019--Mexican authorities must immediately and transparently investigate the killing of reporter Norma Sarabia and do everything in their power to ensure the safe recovery of journalist Marcos Miranda Cogco, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
Colombia sentences two ex-paramilitary fighters for 2000 attack on Jineth Bedoya
May 8, 2019 4:04 PM ET
Miami, May 8, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the sentencing on May 6 of former paramilitary fighters Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco and Jesús Emiro Pereira Rivera for the kidnapping, rape, and torture of Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima in...