Dagens Nyheter Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Journalists detained, threatened while covering MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine

July 21, 2014 5:04 PM EDT

New York, July 21, 2014–Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine should stop threatening and obstructing journalists from reporting on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Number of journalist kidnappings in Syria unprecedented

November 26, 2013 4:27 PM EST

New York, November 26, 2013–The Swedish government confirmed two Swedish journalists were kidnapped in Syria on Saturday by an unknown group. The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed its alarm at the unprecedented number of abductions.