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Pressure by CPJ, other groups keeps Karimov out of Prague

February 13, 2014 3:23 PM EST

The Committee to Protect Journalists this week joined a campaign spearheaded by Human Rights Watch and Uzbek human rights defenders urging Czech President Milos Zeman to cancel Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov’s visit to Prague. Zeman had invited Karimov to visit this month despite the Central Asian leader’s notorious intolerance to freedom of the press and…

Mexican journalists speak in a news conference, protesting the abduction and murder of journalist Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz. (Reuters/Edgard Garrido)

Missing Mexican journalist found dead in Veracruz

February 12, 2014 5:07 PM EST

New York, February 12, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz and hold the perpetrators to account. Jiménez was abducted on February 5 and his body was found buried along with two other people in the municipality of Las…

Sudan confiscates editions of three newspapers

February 12, 2014 2:07 PM EST

Sudanese authorities on February 4, 2014, confiscated the editions of three independent daily newspapers from the printing press, according to news reports and local press freedom groups.

Attacks on the Press in 2013

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

Front-line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts cover an array of topics of critical importance to journalists. Governments store transactional data and the content of journalists’ communications. Media and money engage in a tug of war, with media owners reluctant to draw China’s disfavor and advertisers able to wield surprising clout. In Syria, journalists…

How the United States’ Spying Strengthens China’s Hand

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

The scope of the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance raises doubts about the U.S. commitment to freedom of expression online. By Joel Simon

Putting Press Freedom at the Heart of Anti-Poverty Efforts

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

Economists and political scientists acknowledge that journalism is vital to development and democracy. By Robert Mahoney

The NSA Puts Journalists Under a Cloud of Suspicion

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

Governments’ capacity to store transactional data and the content of communications poses a unique threat to journalism in the digital age. By Geoffrey King

When Journalists Are Killed, Witnesses May Be Next

February 12, 2014 2:25 AM EST

Eliminating witnesses has become an all too easy and eff ective method of stymying justice when journalists are assassinated. By Elisabeth Witchel

Would-Be Repressors Brandish ‘Ethics’ as Justification

February 12, 2014 2:23 AM EST

Calls for journalists to exercise a sense of responsibility are very often code for censorship. Yet unethical journalism can also imperil the press. By Jean-Paul Marthoz

Attacks on the Press: Surveillance poses global challenge for free flow of news

February 12, 2014 2:22 AM EST

CPJ’s annual assessment of press freedom worldwide New York, February 12, 2014–Digital surveillance, the unchecked murder of journalists, and indirect commercial and political pressures on the media are three of the primary threats to press freedom highlighted in the Committee to Protect Journalists annual assessment, Attacks on the Press, released today.