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CPJ joins call for UN to continue scrutinizing human rights situation in Eritrea
June 11, 2019 11:15 AM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists and 29 other civil society organizations today sent a letter to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council urging them to continue to scrutinize the human rights situation in Eritrea. The letter was sent ahead of the 41st session of the Human Rights...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 2, 2019
June 6, 2019 2:01 PM ET
German journalist accused of insulting president A prosecutor in Ankara has started an investigation into German journalist Süheyla Kaplan who is accused of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and terrorism propaganda, Deutsche Welle reported. Evidence cited against the journalist includes a political cartoon of the Turkey's president that she...
CPJ joins call for UN Security Council to act on Cameroon crisis
June 3, 2019 6:30 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists and eight other civil society organizations sent a letter to members of the United Nations Security Council about the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights situation in Cameroon. The letter was sent ahead of the U.N. Regional Office for Central Africa briefing to the Security...
Harsh conditions for Askarov, the Kyrgyz journalist UN says should be freed
June 3, 2019 10:00 AM ET
On a recent morning in Bazar-Korgon, southern Kyrgyzstan, Khadicha Askarova was giving hasty instructions to her daughter about what needed to be packed. They were about to set off: first for the capital Bishkek, some 600km from where they live, and then another 70km to a prison colony where...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 26, 2019
May 30, 2019 1:13 PM ET
More journalists beaten in Turkey On May 25, three men beat Selahattin Önkibar, a columnist for the ultranationalist opposition news website Odatv, near his house in Ankara, the leftist daily Evrensel reported. Önkibar is the fifth journalist to be attacked in Turkey this month, in apparent retaliation for their...
Results of India's election climate for journalist safety are in
May 23, 2019 3:47 PM ET
Journalists across India are at risk of physical and digital attack in retaliation for their reporting. And during election campaigns, these dangers can increase. As the country went to the polls in recent weeks, CPJ's India correspondent Kunal Majumder traveled to Guwahati, Imphal, Agartala, Raipur, Bijapur, and Hyderabad to...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 19, 2019
May 23, 2019 3:25 PM ET
7 journalists sentenced in Özgür Gündem trial An Istanbul Court on May 21 sentenced seven journalists from the shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem to prison after they were convicted of "making propaganda for a [terrorist] organization," the Mezopotamya News Agency reported....
Q&A;: Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship
May 23, 2019 11:33 AM ET
Audrey Tang prefers precise language. During an interview, Taiwan's minister without portfolio - Tang's name card simply says "digital minister" - makes a swift correction when we mention the term "fake news." The preferred term is "disinformation" because, Tang says, it has a legal definition in Taiwan: "That is...
'We face a different danger,' war photographer Paul Conroy says
May 22, 2019 3:47 PM ET
In a Q&A with CPJ, British war photographer Paul Conroy discusses his last assignment with Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin in Syria, in 2012, and the dangers for photojournalists, especially when covering conflict....
Rappler-CIA plot claim is attempt to cut funding, Philippine journalists say
May 21, 2019 3:22 PM ET
First were the politically motivated state charges that funding provided to the news website Rappler by a U.S. philanthropic foundation represented a violation of constitutional provisions barring foreign control or ownership of Philippine media....