Russia / Europe & Central Asia

  

CPJ disturbed that journalist’s appeal denied

New York, January 21, 2005—The Supreme Court of the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia upheld on Wednesday, January 19, the conviction of Yuri Bagrov on criminal charges of using forged documents to obtain Russian citizenship. The court also fined him 15,000 rubles (US$530). “We are very concerned that the harassment and prosecution of Bagrov…

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CPJ Update

CPJ Update January 14, 2005 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

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CPJ Update

CPJ Update November 16, 2005 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

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CPJ disturbed by ruling that Russian newspaper must pay millions

New York, January 4, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by a Moscow court’s finding that Kommersant, Russia’s leading independent business daily, must pay millions in damages for a July article that described long lines of customers withdrawing money at a major bank. An appellate court ruled last week that Kommersant (Businessman) must pay…

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Journalists Killed in the Last Ten Years

The Toll: 1995-2004 Each year in January, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) publishes a list of journalists killed in the line of duty around the world. This list has become the most widely cited press freedom statistic and is often seen as a barometer of the state of global press freedom. While the correlation…

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CPJ disturbed by journalist’s conviction

New York, December 17, 2004—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that authorities in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia have prosecuted and convicted Yuri Bagrov, a reporter who covered the North Caucasus and Chechnya for The Associated Press (AP) until September. The Leninsky court in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia’s capital, today convicted Bagrov on…

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CPJ Update

CPJ Update December 15, 2004 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

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The Internet’s Role in Media Freedom

The Internet’s Role in Media Freedom By Mick Stern The Boston Globe December 14, 2003

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2004 IPFA dinner remarks

Remarks by Ann Cooper, Executive Director of CPJ At this event we celebrate the courage of individual journalists and we demonstrate our collective determination to thwart forces that would silence the press. Those collective efforts over the past 12 months have helped win the early release of journalists imprisoned for their work in Tunisia, in…

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2004 IPFA Svetlana Kalinkina

Alexis Sinduhije |  Aung Pwint and Thaung Tun |   Paul Klebnikov  |  John Carroll

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