Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 14, 2018
September 20, 2018 12:13 PM ET
Court finds journalists guilty of making propaganda for terrorists A court on September 19 found the directors of the shuttered socialist television channel Hayatın Sesi TV guilty of making propaganda for terrorist organisations, the daily Evrensel reported....
Iraqi authorities shut down internet, detain and assault journalists amid protests
September 14, 2018 10:57 AM ET
Between July 14 and September 6, 2018, at least seven Iraqi journalists were assaulted or detained while covering protests over government corruption and the lack of basic services in several cities across Iraq, and the offices of two local...
Egypt sentences photojournalist Shawkan to five years
September 8, 2018 7:58 AM ET
Washington, D.C., September 8, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned an Egyptian court's sentencing of photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as "Shawkan," to five years in prison, and called on authorities to release him immediately and remove...
Venezuelan freelance photographer detained, sent to military prison
September 7, 2018 5:55 PM ET
New York, September 7, 2018--Venezuelan authorities should immediately release and drop all charges against freelance photographer Jesus Medina Ezaine, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A court in the capital Caracas on August 31 ordered Medina to military...
Egypt extends detention period for four journalists held as part of mass trial
August 21, 2018 5:16 PM ET
New York, August 21, 2018-- Egyptian national security prosecutors ordered four more journalists to be detained as part of a case in which more than a dozen journalists, along with academics and activists, are charged with belonging to a...
New Nepali criminal code threatens press freedom
August 20, 2018 4:21 PM ET
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2018--Nepal's government must repeal or amend the new criminal code that came into effect on August 17 to remove provisions that severely threaten press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Gujarat police beat up photojournalist, charge him with looting and rioting
August 9, 2018 4:15 PM ET
New Delhi, August 9, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned a brutal attack on photojournalist Pravin Indrekar by police in the Indian state of Gujarat, and called on the state authorities to withdraw charges of looting and rioting...
CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering Unite the Right rally and counter-protests in Washington, D.C.
August 9, 2018 8:14 AM ET
Hundreds of protesters are expected to join a "white civil rights rally" in Washington, D.C., on August 11 and 12 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which became violent and resulted...
CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering protests in Bangladesh
August 7, 2018 3:46 PM ET
On July 29, two students were killed, and 12 others injured when a bus plowed into a passengers waiting at a stop in Dhaka. Since then, daily demonstrations that started in Dhaka have spread throughout Bangladesh. Thousands of students...
Bangladesh orders Shahidul Alam held 7 days; more than a dozen journalists attacked
August 6, 2018 5:42 PM ET
New York, August 6, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Bangladeshi authorities to immediately halt widespread attacks on journalists covering ongoing student protests in Dhaka and to release photographer Shahidul Alam from jail....