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An armed separatist orders a journalist to leave the area near the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane in Donetsk region. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Journalists missing, fixer kidnapped, press banned in eastern Ukraine

July 23, 2014 6:15 PM EDT

New York, July 23, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a series of recent anti-press violations in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk. In the past two days, at least two journalists have gone missing, while pro-Russia separatists abducted a fixer and briefly detained a reporter, according to news reports and press freedom and human rights…

Critical Chinese blogger given six-year prison term

July 23, 2014 6:14 PM EDT

New York, July 23, 2014–Chinese authorities today sentenced a blogger to more than six years in prison, according to news reports. Dong Rubin, a businessman who has criticized the ruling Communist Party in his blogs, has been in prison since September 2013.

In a growing clampdown, three editors detained in Burma

July 23, 2014 12:49 PM EDT

Bangkok, July 23, 2014–Burmese authorities should drop national security-related charges brought against journalists and staff members of the Bi Mon Te Nay (Bi-Midday Sun) news journal, and release them from pre-trial detention immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

The aftermath of a raid on the offices of the Sudanese paper Al-Tayar, seen here, in which the paper's editor-in-chief was attacked. (AFP/Ebrahim Hamid)

Armed men raid Sudanese newspaper, beat editor

July 22, 2014 4:43 PM EDT

New York, July 22, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an attack on the offices of a privately owned newspaper in Sudan in which the publication’s editor and another journalist were beaten.

This Palestinian journalist was killed in an ambulance on Sunday

July 22, 2014 4:40 PM EDT

Vice quoted Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, in its analysis of threats to journalists covering Operation Protective Edge. Read the full article here.

Chinese journalist dismissed after writing on Hong Kong news website

July 22, 2014 4:13 PM EDT

New York, July 22, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the recent termination of a Chinese journalist from a monthly magazine after he wrote for a Hong Kong website. Song Zhibiao’s dismissal marks the first publicized case of its kind following recent directives by the Chinese government that bar journalists from cooperating with…

A journalist films a burning building in Gaza's Shijaiyah district on July 20. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Palestinian cameraman killed during Israeli assault

July 21, 2014 5:23 PM EDT

New York, July 21, 2014–A Palestinian cameraman was killed in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah on Sunday, according to news reports and the journalist’s colleague. More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces in Shijaiyah that day, according to news reports.

Journalists detained, threatened while covering MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine

July 21, 2014 5:04 PM EDT

New York, July 21, 2014–Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine should stop threatening and obstructing journalists from reporting on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Nigeria’s free-wheeling media fears crackdown over Boko Haram battle

July 21, 2014 4:36 PM EDT

Reuters cited CPJ’s Impunity Index in its analysis of the threats to Nigeria’s media. Read the full article here.

Ukrainian reporter held for reporting in Russia without work permit

July 21, 2014 12:23 PM EDT

Russian authorities arrested Yevgeny Agarkov, a reporter with the Ukrainian television station 1+1, on July 18, 2014, and accused him of working in Russia without a proper accreditation, according to news reports. Agarkov had traveled there to cover the controversial prosecution and trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, whom Russia accused of involvement in the…