Essay: Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars
PETER GRESTE, Professor of Journalism and Communications at Australia’s Macquarie University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the latest annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists…
Journalists under fire: In Mexico, a reporter published a story. The next day he was dead
SARAH KINOSIAN, of Reuters, reports on the growing death toll of reporters killed in Mexico simply for doing their job…
Iran protests over young woman’s death continue, 83 said killed
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Protests continued in several cities across Iran on Thursday against the death of young woman in police custody, state and social media reported, as a human rights group said at least 83 people had been killed in nearly two weeks of demonstrations. Mahsa Amini, 22, from the Iranian Kurdish town of […]
Number of jailed journalists reached global high in 2021, at least 24 killed for their coverage -CPJ report
Reuters The number of journalists worldwide who are behind bars reached a global high in 2021, according to a new report from the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists, which says that 293 reporters were imprisoned as of 1st December this year. At least 24 journalists were killed because of their coverage, and 18 others died […]
Freedom of expression?: In Abiy’s Ethiopia, press freedom flourished. Then fear returned
MAGGIE FICK, of Reuters, reports…
Record number of journalists imprisoned in 2020 – report
Reuters A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. At least 274 journalists were in jail as of 1st December, the most since the New York-based group began […]
Call for global action as journalists are being jailed in record numbers
Journalists are being imprisoned in record numbers around the world with 262 jailed at the end of last year – the highest number ever recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In an event held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last Friday, Joel Simon, the CPJ’s executive director, said that […]