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Mass surveillance is corroding American democracy, Human Rights report concludes

July 28, 2014 4:59 PM EDT

The Huffington Post referenced CPJ’s report, Obama and the Press, in an article covering the Human Rights Watch/ACLU report on the affect of mass surveillance on American democracy. Read the full article here.

In Ukraine, journalists injured, detained, expelled

July 28, 2014 4:48 PM EDT

New York, July 28, 2014–In recent days in Ukraine, an international journalist was wounded in a car crash caused by separatists’ gunfire, a local journalist was detained by separatists, a Russian reporter for Bloomberg News was briefly detained by a Ukrainian army unit, and a foreign journalist was expelled by Ukrainian authorities, according to press…

Sunil Jayasekera, convener of the Sri Lankan Free Media Movement, talks to journalists in Colombo in June. (AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)

In Sri Lanka crackdown, mobs and death threats turned on journalists

July 28, 2014 2:56 PM EDT

There is genuine cause for alarm about the anonymous death threats going to Sunil Jayasekara’s phone. They started streaming to Jayasekara, the convener of Sri Lanka’s Free Media Movement, an umbrella group (hence calling the leader a convener) of journalists’ organization in Sri Lanka, just before an FMM press conference on Saturday in Colombo.

Police in Burkina Faso seize journalist’s camera, deletes images

July 28, 2014 12:47 PM EDT

A police officer on July 24, 2014, seized the camera of Hippolyte Sama, a photojournalist with the independent newsmagazine Fasozine, while he was photographing relatives of victims of an Air Algeria plane that crashed in northern Mali, according to news reports.

DRC police attack journalists covering protest

July 28, 2014 12:45 PM EDT

Congolese police on July 22, 2014, beat three TV journalists while they were covering a protest outside the offices of Molière TV, a broadcast station based in the capital, Kinshasa.

Mission Journal: Attacks on journalists in Ukraine lead to information vacuum

July 28, 2014 12:32 PM EDT

“There are no [independent] Ukrainian journalists left in Donetsk,” said Aleksei Matsuka, chief editor of the regional news website Novosti Donbassa (News of Donbass). “They have fled the region since pro-Russia separatists started targeting and kidnapping reporters,” Matsuka told CPJ during our brief meeting in Kiev.

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court's decision to strike down criminal defamation must be implemented. (AFP/Jekesai Njikizana)

Zimbabwe court strikes down criminal defamation; implementation to be seen

July 28, 2014 11:51 AM EDT

In a landmark ruling, the Zimbabwean Constitutional Court on July 22 declared unconstitutional a section of the draconian Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act that criminalizes defamation.

Iran confirms arrest of Post correspondent

July 25, 2014 4:49 PM EDT

The Washington Post cited CPJ’s statement on the detainment of Post correspondent Jacob Rezaian, his wife, and other journalists in Iran. Read the full article here.

CPJ condemns Swaziland editor’s prison sentence

July 25, 2014 12:33 PM EDT

Cape Town, July 25, 2014–CPJ is appalled by the two-year prison sentence, without the option of a fine, imposed today on editor of The Nation Bheki Makhubu and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko by the Swaziland High Court in Mbabane. The pair was convicted on contempt of court charges on July 17, in connection with…

People buy garments ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday. (AP/Mohammad Sajjad)

Seeking release of Pakistani journalist Faizullah Khan, jailed in Afghanistan

July 25, 2014 11:15 AM EDT

It’s not often that CPJ agrees with the Pakistan government, but here is one of the rare occasions when we do. While Pakistan journalists have been pushing for quite a while for the release of one of their colleagues, Faizullah Khan, being held in Nangahar in Afghanistan, the Islamabad government has apparently been working diplomatic…