Statements

  

CPJ alarmed by supression of media in Honduras

We issued the following statement today in response to international press reports that military personnel briefly detained seven journalists on Monday, closed down at least one television station and one radio station in Tegucigalpa, and is interfering with international broadcast of protests in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya…

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Concern at reports of media black-out in Honduras

We issued the following statement today in response to press reports that several broadcast media outlets have been closed in Honduras following the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday…

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CPJ thrilled Times reporter and assistant are free

Reacting to reports that New York Times reporter David Rohde and his assistant Tahir Ludin have escaped Taliban captors who held them for more than seven months, we issued the following statement:

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Concerns remain for U.S. journalists in North Korea

Responding to a Korea Central News Agency report that Euna Lee and Laura Ling have admitted crossing illegally into North Korea and trying to slander the state, we released the following statement today…

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Globovisión threatened with criminal investigation

In response to today’s request by the Venezuelan National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) that the Attorney General’s Office determine whether the private broadcaster Globovisión is criminally liable for violating the telecommunications law, we issued the following statement…

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CPJ condemns Tehran’s ban on foreign reporting

We issued the following statement in response to media reports today from Iran of repeated disruptions in mobile communications and Internet services, and an Interior Ministry ban on foreign reporters covering “illegal protests” without prior permission…

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CPJ condemns arrest of Gambian journalists

After receiving reports today of the arrest of seven senior Gambian journalists and press union leaders who criticized President Yahya Jammeh for remarks that bluntly refuted government involvement in the unsolved 2004 murder of an editor, we issued the following statement…

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Five suspects detained in Mexican journalist’s killing

We issued the following statement in response to a report in the Mexican daily Milenio today that five men were detained in connection with the May 25 killing of Eliseo Barrón Hernández, a reporter and photographer for the local daily La Opinión in the northern Durango state…

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North Korea sentences U.S. journalists to 12 years

We released this statement today after a North Korean court found U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling guilty of entering the country illegally and carrying out “hostile acts, sentencing the Current TV reporters to terms of 12 years hard labor.

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Fifth Somali journalist killed this year

Following news that Radio Shabelle Director Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe was killed and News Editor Ahmed Omar Hashi seriously injured today by gunmen in Somalia’s volatile capital, Mogadishu, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued this statement…

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