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CPJ leads 33 organizations to condemn spate of Egyptian journalist arrests

CPJ 09 Sep 2024
... authorities in targeting journalists and independent media, underscoring why Egypt has remained among the top 10 jailers of journalists worldwide in recent years, according to CPJ data.
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CPJ joins call urging U.S. government to make effective use of Global Magnitsky sanctions

CPJ 06 Sep 2024
government’s declining response to international human rights and corruption violations in a September 5, 2024 letter ... ....
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Nicaragua deports 135 political prisoners, including 2 journalists

CPJ 06 Sep 2024
... brings us relief, but they should never have been imprisoned, as they were simply doing their jobs as journalists,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator, in São Paulo.
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CPJ, others reject 7-year prison sentence for Brazilian journalist over blog

CPJ 05 Sep 2024
Criminal justice is not the appropriate response to dealing with slander, defamation and libel ... Read the full statement in English . Read the full statement in Portuguese here ....
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Kyrgyz authorities threaten to block 2 news outlets over report on president

CPJ 05 Sep 2024
... that the ‘false information’ law is used for shielding the reputations of top state officials, not for countering disinformation,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.
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Syrian Photographer Released Following Controversial Detainment by T�rkiye-Backed Military Police

PetaPixel 04 Sep 2024
A Syrian photojournalist was released by T�rkiye-backed Syrian militants after a week of detention, highlighting the extreme dangers journalists face in the Middle East and the surrounding region. [Read More] ... .
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CPJ, #KeepItOn partners call on Venezuela to end digital shutdowns

CPJ 03 Sep 2024
Such shutdowns violate Venezuela’s constitution and the right to freedom of expression ... Read the full statement here ....
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CPJ, partners call for release of slain Nigerian journalist’s body

CPJ 03 Sep 2024
Pelumi, an intern at Gboah TV, was shot on October 24, 2020, while covering the #EndSARS protests in Ikeja, the capital of Nigeria’s southwestern Lagos state ... Read the full statement here ....
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CPJ joins call urging Apple to reinstate VPNs in Russia after removals

CPJ 03 Sep 2024
On July 4, Apple removed more than 20 VPN apps, including Red Shield VPN, Le VPN, HideMyName, PlanetVPN, AdGuard VPN, among others, from its Russian App Store following a request from Russian state media regulator Roskomnadzor ... ....
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CPJ concerned by Kazakhstan’s restrictive new media accreditation

CPJ 03 Sep 2024
Instead of the greater openness promised by President Tokayev’s ‘New Kazakhstan,’ what journalists are really getting is ever more creeping state control,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.
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Russia labels exiled journalist Galina Timchenko a ‘foreign agent’

CPJ 03 Sep 2024
“The designation of Galina Timchenko as a “foreign agent” is the latest move by Russian authorities to exert pressure on Meduza’s independent reporting,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.
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CPJ, others: China criminalizing journalism in Hong Kong with Stand News verdict

CPJ 02 Sep 2024
Former Stand News editors Patrick Lam and Chung Pui-kuen are due to be sentenced on September 26 and could be jailed for two years ... Read the full statement ....
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Arrests of Palestinian journalists since start of Israel-Gaza war

CPJ 02 Sep 2024
The tally includes all arrests documented by CPJ ... However, the number of journalists behind bars may be higher than CPJ’s records show as it has become increasingly difficult to verify information during the war.
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Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

CPJ 02 Sep 2024
See CPJ’s database of the full list of journalists and media workers killed in the Israel-Gaza war ... To date, CPJ has determined that at least five journalists were directly targeted by Israeli forces in killings which CPJ classifies as murders.
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Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war

CPJ 02 Sep 2024
As of September 2, CPJ’s records showed that 34 of these journalists were still under arrest ... CPJ has received multiple requests for PPE, but delivering this equipment to journalists in the region is difficult.

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