Ukraine extends ban on Russian news agencies, journalists
May 24, 2018 5:17 PM ET
New York, May 24, 2018--Ukrainian authorities today published a presidential decree that extends for three years sanctions imposed in 2017 against Russian state-funded news outlets and their journalists, as well as other foreign entities and individuals, and added the...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 7, 2018
May 10, 2018 4:44 PM ET
Journalists arrested On May 3, authorities in the southern city of Mersin transferred İsmail Çoban, former news editor for the shuttered Kurdish language daily Azadiya Welat, to the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, where he will remain in custody pending...
Three Russian journalists injured by gunfire in eastern Ghouta, Syria
April 13, 2018 6:13 PM ET
Three journalists were injured when a bus carrying Russian media came under fire from unknown assailants in the Syrian city of Douma, 16 kilometers (10 miles) away from Damascus, in the eastern Ghouta region on April 11, 2018, according...
Kenyan government ignores court order over broadcasting ban
February 2, 2018 2:01 PM ET
New York, February 2, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Kenyan government to obey a court order suspending a broadcasting ban on four privately owned television stations. A high court yesterday ordered the government to lift...
Kenya cuts TV transmissions over live coverage of opposition's Odinga
January 30, 2018 4:14 PM ET
Nairobi, January 30, 2018--Authorities in Kenya should immediately allow four privately owned television stations to resume broadcasting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Officials from the broadcast regulator the Communications Authority, accompanied by police, switched off transmitters today...
Ukraine bans Russian media outlets, websites
May 17, 2017 10:47 AM ET
New York, May 17, 2017--Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko should immediately reverse his order obstructing at least 19 Russian media companies, four popular Russian websites, and banning at least 13 journalists from entering the country for a year, the Committee...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 12
June 13, 2016 12:06 PM ET
Constitutional Court rejects journalist's appeal Turkey's Constitutional Court today ruled that journalist Mehmet Baransu's constitutional right to freedom of expression and the constitution's guarantees of press freedom were not contravened in the journalist's March 2015 arrest in connection with...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 8
May 9, 2016 9:21 AM ET
Police detain two men on suspicion of plotting attack on newspaper Police detained two men suspected of planning to attack the printing house of leading pro-government daily Sabah today, the newspaper reported. According to Sabah, suspects Hasan K and...
Press trying to cover politics in Uganda face restrictions, attacks
January 15, 2016 4:37 PM ET
January 15, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that journalists in Uganda are being prevented from freely covering Parliament and campaigning for next month's presidential elections. The government announced this week that journalists without a university qualification will be...