Treason trial of Russian state media journalist begins in Ukraine
April 5, 2019 1:29 PM ET
New York, April 5, 2019 -- The trial of Kirill Vyshynsky, Kiev bureau chief of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, started yesterday in the Podil district court in Kiev, according to Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. The...
Algerian journalist faces treason charges
February 27, 2017 5:18 PM ET
Washington, D.C., February 27, 2017--Algerian authorities should immediately drop all criminal charges against Marzoug Touati, an editor of the news website Al-Hogra, and release him without condition or delay, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Algerian security forces...
Germany scores against the surveillance state
August 7, 2015 1:24 PM ET
It all went very fast. On Tuesday morning August 4, Germany’s chief federal prosecutor, Harald Range, was ordered by Justice Minister Heiko Maas to withdraw an independent expert from the investigation of two journalists from Netzpolitik. The investigator had concluded...
Germany investigating news website, journalists for treason
July 31, 2015 2:33 PM ET
New York, July 31, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by the allegations of treason against two journalists affiliated with the critical German news website Netzpolitik. German authorities on Thursday opened an investigation into the website's bloggers, Markus...
CPJ examines press freedom under Obama
September 30, 2013 4:33 PM ET
Upcoming report looks at leak investigations and surveillanceNew York, September 30, 2013-- The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its first comprehensive report on press freedom conditions in the United States. Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor and now the Weil Family...
Zimbabwe charges 45 with treason for viewing Egypt footage
March 4, 2011 1:56 PM ET
The right to receive and impart information is a fundamental human right enshrined in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but in Zimbabwe, watching news of North African and Middle East protests apparently amounts to treason. ...
Journalist given 15 years for espionage in Transdniester
December 17, 2010 5:05 PM ET
New York, December 17, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the 15-year prison sentence given to independent journalist Ernest Vardanian, who has been held on falsified espionage charges in the unrecognized separatist Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) since April. The...