correspondent abducted in Baghdad
New York, October 19, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by today’s abduction in Baghdad of a veteran reporter for London’s Guardian newspaper. The Guardian said it believes a group of armed men seized Rory Carroll, the paper’s Baghdad correspondent, as he left a house in the Sadr City, a stronghold of radical cleric…
Kurdish editor sentenced to one year in jail
New York, October 19, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the one-year prison sentence given to Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand by an Iranian court. The court declared Kabudvand, managing editor of the bilingual Kurdish and Farsi Payam Mardom Kordestan, guilty of “inciting the population to rebel against the central state,”…
ISRAEL and the Occupied Territories, including the Palestinian Authority Territories
OCTOBER 12, 2005 Posted October 18, 2005 Dion Nissenbaum, Knight Ridder Adam Pletts, Knight Ridder ABDUCTED Nissenbaum, a U.S. reporter for the Knight Ridder newspaper chain, and Pletts, a British freelance photographer working for the news organization, were held for several hours and released unharmed in the Gaza Strip. The abductions were part of an…
Journalist convicted on charge of insulting Turkish identity’
New York, October 12, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the conviction of a Turkish-Armenian journalist on a charge of “insulting and weakening Turkish identity through the media” An Istanbul court on Friday sentenced Hrant Dink, 52, editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, to a six-month suspended term. Dink and his lawyer, Fethiye Cetin,…
Two foreign journalists briefly abducted in Gaza
New York, October 12, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the abduction of a U.S. journalist and a British colleague who were held for several hours and released unharmed on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip. The abductions are part of an alarming spate of kidnappings of foreign journalists in Gaza, CPJ research shows. Dion Nissenbaum,…
CPJ urges UN to expand Lebanon inquiry to include journalist attacks
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists urgently calls on the United Nations Security Council to expand its current probe into the February 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri to include alarming, unsolved attacks against Lebanese journalists in recent months.