Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 10
February 14, 2019 2:41 PM ET
Police detain two journalists in separate raids Police on February 12 detained Salih Turan, a freelance journalist who formerly worked for the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America and the Kurdish service of the Russian-state-funded outlet Sputnik, on accusations...
Japan prevents freelance journalist from traveling to report in Yemen
February 6, 2019 1:30 PM ET
Washington, D.C., February 6, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Japanese government to allow freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka to leave the country to conduct reporting. Tsuneoka was stopped by immigration officials at Tokyo's Haneda Airport while...
Lawsuits and economic crisis drive Venezuela's journalists into exile
December 18, 2018 12:08 PM ET
When Ewald Scharfenberg, the founding editor of the Venezuelan investigative news website Armando.Info, holds editorial meetings, he pulls out his mobile phone. That's because most of his reporters are in Venezuela while Scharfenberg lives and works in neighboring Colombia....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of October 26, 2018
November 1, 2018 12:37 PM ET
Journalist freed pending trial An Istanbul court on October 31, ordered Ali Sönmez Kayar, a reporter for the socialist Etkin News Agency (ETHA), to be freed pending trial, the independent news website Bianet reported. Kayar, who is charged with...
Acts of Intimidation: In Pakistan, journalists' fear and censorship grow even as fatal violence declines
September 12, 2018 12:00 AM ET
As killings of journalists in Pakistan decline so too does press freedom, as the country’s powerful military quietly, but effectively, restricts reporting by barring access, encouraging self-censorship through direct and indirect acts of intimidation, and even allegedly instigating violence...
Russian Supreme Court upholds travel ban on Norwegian journalist
June 1, 2018 4:08 PM ET
Russia's Supreme Court on May 25, 2018, upheld a December 4, 2017, decision of a Moscow city court to bar Norwegian journalist Thomas Nilsen from traveling to Russia for five years, according to media reports....
Turkey convicts Cumhuriyet journalists on terrorism charges
April 25, 2018 5:32 PM ET
Istanbul, April 25, 2018--An Istanbul court today convicted 14 people affiliated with the independent daily Cumhuriyet of aiding terrorist organizations and sentenced them to jail terms ranging between three and seven years, the newspaper reported. The court placed the...
Azerbaijan goes to the polls amid muzzled media and blocked websites
April 6, 2018 12:02 PM ET
When it comes to silencing critics, Azerbaijani authorities have been industrious and methodical. Ahead of snap presidential elections scheduled for April 11, potential opposition candidates have been either jailed or barred from running, and the political landscape has been...