International Press Freedom Awards

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Video: Mustafa Haji Abdinur on MSNBC

CPJ 2009 International Press Freedom Award Winner Mustafa Haji Abdinur appeared on the November 25 edition of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” to discuss the dangers he and his colleagues face working as journalists in Somalia.

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Seen and heard at CPJ benefit: ‘The pen is not broken’

Small in stature but strong in her words, Naziha Réjiba tells a reporter of all the things the Tunisian government does to try to frighten her. But Réjiba said that she will not be scared, that she will never allow such tactics to have power over her. Editor of Kalima, an online news Web site blocked in…

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Video: Mustafa Haji Abdinur on World Focus

CPJ 2009 International Press Freedom Award Winner Mustafa Haji Abdinur appeared on the November 24 edition of “World Focus” on PBS to discuss the “culture of violence in daily Somali life and the war against the independent press.”

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Honored for their work, threatened at home

CPJ introduces 2009 International Press Freedom Awardees Washington, November 19, 2009—Naziha Réjiba, editor of the Tunisian online news journal Kalima, said she knows what to expect when she returns home—surveillance, harassment, and threats conducted by one the world’s most repressive governments.

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CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist

New York, August 31, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award. Tissainayagam, left, sentenced today to 20 years in prison on specious charges of violating anti-terror laws, is one of five journalists who will be honored by CPJ…

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Ugandan paper’s cartoon of president draws interrogation

New York, August 28, 2009–A Ugandan newspaper’s critical caricature of President Yoweri Museveni led police to interrogate three journalists today on allegations of sedition, according to a defense attorney and local journalists. 

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Uganda’s Museveni issues warning to news media

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda lashed out at private broadcasters last week, accusing them of unethical reporting. The comments come in the midst of two important, ongoing developments: mounting public criticism of Museveni’s policies and the government’s criminal prosecutions of six journalists for their coverage.

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Pajhwok Afghan News expands, faces tough decisions

I spent Sunday morning in Kabul catching up with Danish Karokhel, at left, director of Pajhwok Afghan News and (along with deputy Farida Nekzad) a 2008 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee. Pajhwok moved since the last time I was here, and with income from subscribers to its news service and grant money from NGOs, it…

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Brazilian journalist sentenced on defamation charges

New York, July 10, 2009–A judge in the northern state of Pará ordered prominent Brazilian journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto, at left, on Monday to pay US$15,000 in damages in a civil libel suit. The decision is part of a systematic pattern of legal harassment against Pinto, who faces more than 10 lawsuits from powerful plaintiffs,…

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Truth beyond bars: Jiang Weiping on being jailed for work

Jiang Weiping, a 2001 CPJ Press Feedom Award winner, spoke on Tuesday on a panel organized by the Ford Foundation in Washington, along with CPJ board member Clarence Page and Executive Director Joel Simon. The panel addressed the concerning number of journalists jailed worldwide–125, according to CPJ’s 2008 census–and discussed how advocacy by CPJ and other…

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