Statements

  

CPJ saddened by death of Jawed Ahmad

Responding to media reports that Afghan journalist Jawed Ahmad was killed in a drive-by shooting in the southern city of Kandahar today, we issued the following statement…

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Concern for U.S. journalist arrested in Iran

We issued the following statement today after learning that Iranian authorities have been holding U.S. freelance journalist Roxana Saberi without charge since January…

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Gunmen murder journalist in Philippines

Responding to news reports about the death of Ernie Rullen, a DXSY radio commentator who was shot and killed by two masked gunmen on the southern island of Mindanao today, we released this statement…

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Pakistan must act to protect journalists

In response to news reports from Pakistan today that journalist Imtiaz Alam was injured in an attack by a gang in Lahore, and that the building housing the Wana Press Club in South Waziristan was leveled in a bomb blast on Thursday, we issued this statement…

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CPJ concerned by shooting in Nepal

The Committee to Protect Journalists, which wrote to Nepal’s Prime Minister on Tuesday protesting unpunished attacks on the media, issued the following statement today in response to news reports that unidentified gunmen shot and injured Gadhimai FM radio program coordinator Gyanendra Raj Misra on Thursday in Birgunj in the restive southern plains region…

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Justice must be served in Politkovskaya case

We issued this statement today after a jury at the Moscow District Military Court acquitted three men of involvement in the 2006 assassination of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya…

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In Russia, independent paper faces harassment

We issued this statement today after the Russian press reported the brief detention and harassment by Khimki police of two people handing out copies of the independent newspaper Khimkinskaya Pravda, whose editor, Mikhail Beketov, remains hospitalized two months after unknown attackers beat him nearly to death…

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In Russia, editor’s family harassed by police

We issued the following statement after Sergei Kurt-Adzhiyev, the embattled editor of the now-shuttered Samara regional edition of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, reported police harassment of his two daughters…

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In Russia, prominent editor threatened

We issued the following statement after Aleksei Venediktov, the prominent editor of independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, received a veiled threat. Venediktov last night found an ax stuck into a log by his door and a videocamera left in front of his apartment…

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Chinese journalist arrives safely in Toronto

Responding to news that CPJ International Press Freedom Award winner Jiang Weiping successfully reached Toronto early today, we issued this statement…

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