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On April 19 the Seattle Weekly blogged about CPJ’s letter to the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano. According to the CPJ letter critical reporting on the case of a British exchange student who was murdered in Italy has set off an alarming wave of threats, harassment and intimidation by local authorities, who effectively…

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty quotes CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova in an article on April 19 about Azerbaijan deporting three Swedish journalists. Click here for the full story

In Reuters’ coverage on April 13 of the case against journalists Jean Claude Kavumbagu, the news agency mentions CPJ’s letter calling on Burundi’s justice minister to intervene and drop the charges faced by Kavumbagu. Click here for the full story

On April 11, the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade blogged about the release of the last Cuban journalist remaining in its prisons and included a quote by CPJ Senior Americas Program Coordinator Carlos Lauría. Click here for the full story

Reuters quoted CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem in a story on April 4 about Bahrain’s main opposition newspaper resuming publication. Click here for the full story

On April 3, SW Radio Africa aired an interview with CPJ Africa Advocacy Program Coordinator Mohamed Keita on South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s recent comments about press freedom in South Africa. Click here to listen to the interview (starts at 9:30)

Reuters quotes CPJ’s Executive Director Joel Simon in an article released on April 1 about a freed Reuters reporter and a missing photographer in Syria. Click here for the full story

On March 30, Star Tribune published an article about how foreign correspondents and local reporters alike are increasingly targeted. The article uses CPJ research and statistics along with a quote by CPJ’s Executive Director Joel Simon to describe the situation in Libya and around the world. Click here for the full story

On March 30, CPJ’s Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about Yang Hengjun, a spy novelist and popular political blogger who disappeared shortly after saying he was being followed at an airport in southern China. Click here for the full story

Independent Online included CPJ Africa Advocacy Program Coordinator Mohamed Keita’s question to South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe in their coverage of the deputy president’s speech at New York University. The article was published on March 28. Click here for the full story