Independent journalist detained on anti-state charges in Vietnam
July 9, 2018 12:20 PM ET
Bangkok, July 9, 2018--Vietnamese authorities should immediately release and stop harassing journalist Le Anh Hung, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police on July 5 detained Hung, a regular contributor to U.S. Congress-funded Voice of America (VOA) and...
Burundi media regulator suspends BBC and VOA, warns other broadcasters
May 7, 2018 5:37 PM ET
Nairobi, May 7, 2018--Authorities in Burundi should immediately lift a six-month licensing suspension imposed on radio broadcasts of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Voice of America (VOA), the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Burundi's National Communication Council...
As peace talks resume South Sudan continues its assault on press freedom
February 2, 2018 11:32 AM ET
A ceasefire agreement signed on December 21 between the South Sudanese government and opposition forces has revived a 2015 peace process and brought hope that the conflict will not persist into its fifth year. The agreement includes obligations to...
Russia votes on bill to require journalists to register as foreign agents
January 16, 2018 3:54 PM ET
Kiev, January 16, 2018--Russia's State Duma should drop a bill that would require some bloggers and journalists to register as foreign agents, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The Duma on January 12 voted overwhelmingly to approve the...
Russia designates nine U.S.-funded news outlets as foreign agents
December 5, 2017 1:30 PM ET
New York, December 5, 2017--Russia's Justice Ministry announced today that it has designated nine U.S. government-funded press outlets as "foreign agents," under a newly expanded law, according to reports. The ministry named the outlets as the U.S. Congress-funded Radio...
Slideshow: Iran's journalists in chains
May 8, 2013 12:01 AM ET
Editorial cartoons play a principal role in every newspaper and magazine in Iran, providing news, analysis, and satire in visual form. Since the presidential elections in 2009, when Iranian authorities launched an intense crackdown against journalists, civil society activists,...
Angolan journalist gets year in prison for defamation
March 3, 2011 3:52 PM ET
New York, March 3, 2011--A court in Angola's southwestern province of Namibe sent a journalist to prison today without due process over his coverage of a sexual harassment scandal that implicated the province's top judicial official, according to local...
Uzbekistan should drop charges against journalists
October 8, 2010 5:19 PM ET
Dear President Karimov: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the politicized prosecution of two journalists: Abdumalik Boboyev, a stringer for the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America (VOA), and Vladimir Berezovsky, an editor for the news website Vesti.
Prime minister says Ethiopia plans to jam VOA broadcasts
March 19, 2010 3:14 PM ET
New York, March 19, 2010—Ethiopia is preparing to jam the Amharic-language broadcasts of the U.S. government-funded Voice of America (VOA), Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared Thursday in a press briefing with international media correspondents based in the capital, Addis Ababa. ...