Offices of independent Belarusian TV station Belsat raided in slander case
April 11, 2019 12:25 PM ET
New York, April 11, 2019 -- Belarusian authorities should immediately drop their criminal slander investigation of independent online television station Belsat and allow the broadcaster's reporters and staff to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of March 24, 2019
March 28, 2019 1:21 PM ET
Court dismisses trial of Paradise Papers reporter Pelin Ünker The trial of Pelin Ünker, a former reporter for the opposition daily Cumhuriyet, who faced charges related to her coverage of the Paradise Papers, was closed on March 28 after...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 2, 2019
February 7, 2019 1:36 PM ET
Court convicts parliamentary deputy and editor Barış Yarkadaş An Istanbul court on February 7 convicted Barış Yarkadaş, the parliamentary deputy for the main opposition party CHP and former chief editor of the online newspaper Gerçek Gündem, of "violating the...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of November 1, 2018
November 8, 2018 12:47 PM ET
Journalists in court An Istanbul court on November 5 convicted Yasir Kaya, a sports journalist formerly with Fenerbahçe TV or FBTV, of "being a member of a [terrorist] organization" and sentenced him to six years and three months in...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 4, 2018
June 7, 2018 2:58 PM ET
Cartoonist arrested for "insulting the president," paroled Turkish authorities on June 5 released on parole Nuri Kurtcebe, a veteran political cartoonist, who was sent to prison on June 3 after a high court rejected his appeal, according to the...
As German hate speech law sinks Titanic's Twitter post, critics warn new powers go too far
January 23, 2018 2:05 PM ET
The satirical magazine Titanic appears to have been an unlikely victim of Germany's recently adopted online anti-hate speech law, NetzDG. "We were truly surprised," the magazine's editor-in-chief Tim Wolff told CPJ, as he explained how Twitter blocked the Titanic...
In Zimbabwe, three journalists investigating elephant poisoning charged with slander
November 5, 2015 1:01 PM ET
Three journalists from Zimbabwe's state-owned weekly newspaper Sunday Mail were arrested in the capital, Harare, on November 2, 2015, after the paper published a report about more than 60 elephants being poisoned in Hwange National Park, according to news reports....
CPJ hails elimination of criminal defamation in Jamaica
November 7, 2013 3:56 PM ET
New York, November 7, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the repeal of criminal libel provisions by the Jamaican Parliament on Tuesday as a step forward in the campaign to eliminate criminal defamation in the Americas....