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Journalist in Gambia fined on contempt charge

June 29, 2012 6:48 PM EDT

Journalist Abdulhamid Adiamoh was convicted on a contempt-of-court charge on June 28, 2012, and was ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 dalasi (US$3,100) or serve six months in jail with hard labor.

Zeta reporter Sergio Haro in the film 'Reportero.' (Courtesy Quiet Pictures)

Film ‘Reportero’ features tenacious Mexican magazine

June 29, 2012 5:42 PM EDT

A week before Sunday’s crucial presidential elections in Mexico, CPJ participated on a panel with filmmaker Bernardo Ruíz and Mexican journalist Sergio Haro about the perilous conditions for journalists in that country, where CPJ research shows 48 journalists have been murdered or disappeared since outgoing President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006.

In China, Internet users have been blocked from accessing the website of the Bloomberg news agency. (AFP/Ed Jones)

China blocks Bloomberg for political report

June 29, 2012 3:51 PM EDT

New York, June 29, 2012–Chinese censors should unblock the website of the Bloomberg news agency, which became inaccessible today following a story on the vice president’s family and its financial assets, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Can Pakistan’s corrupt media be checked?

June 29, 2012 3:02 PM EDT

With ratings driving the profits of media channels, journalists and political talk show hosts are being motivated to stir up controversy at any cost. Meanwhile, the professionals who believe in credibility, objectivity, and honesty as essential parts of ethical journalism are becoming sidelined.

Sri Lankan police raid offices of two news websites

June 29, 2012 12:16 PM EDT

New York, June 29, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Sri Lanka to immediately stop harassing news outlets. Police in Colombo raided the offices of two opposition news websites today, arresting nine people and confiscating equipment, according to news reports.

Journalist in Mali detained for eight days over article

June 28, 2012 5:38 PM EDT

Habi Baby, an editor of the weekly Caravane, was arrested by soldiers at his home in Bamako, the capital, on June 12, 2012, after he published a story critical of Mali’s security forces, according to local journalists and news reports.

What China’s Weibo censorship does, and does not, reveal

June 28, 2012 4:01 PM EDT

A flurry of research on Weibo censorship underscores what we already know about the Chinese company Sina’s microblog service–with a few surprises thrown in.

Journalists assaulted, detained in Nigerian court

June 28, 2012 3:40 PM EDT

Police in Lagos, the commercial capital, assaulted at least 10 journalists and confiscated their equipment on April 4, 2012, according to news reports. The journalists were covering a coroner’s inquest into a 2010 traffic accident, the reports said.

CPJ Impact

June 28, 2012 2:26 PM EDT

News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, June 2012East African journalists flee violence CPJ’s Journalists in Exile report, released on June 19 ahead of World Refugee Day, found that African reporters fleeing violence in their countries make up nearly half of the 463 journalists forced into exile over the past five years. More than a…

Police stand guard in Colquiri, where two radio stations were attacked on June 14. (Reuters/David Mercado)

Three community radio stations attacked in Bolivia

June 28, 2012 1:58 PM EDT

Bogotá, June 28, 2012–Bolivian authorities must investigate attacks on three local radio stations in the past two weeks that have caused the broadcasters to go off the air, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.