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24 Feb 2012
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Syrian Arab Republic (the)
Free Human Rights Defenders

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Joint NGO Statement

(New York) – Human Rights Watch joined more than 30 other organizations today in calling on Syrian authorities to release Mazen Darwish, a prominent human rights defender and and director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), as well as seven of his colleagues and a visitor to SCM, all detained on February 16. The statement follows:

Syrian Authorities Must Immediately and Unconditionally Release Mazen Darwish and Other Detained Activists

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22 Feb 2012
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World
Attacks on the Press 2011 - A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists

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By Sandra Mims Rowe

Blogger Rami Nakhle leaned across the table toward a cluster of U.S. technology leaders. "People are tortured to death because their Facebook account is hacked. You can make a difference between life and death," he told the Silicon Valley executives and computer engineers representing Facebook, Google, and other companies.

08 Sep 2011
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Yemen
Yemeni journalists continue to be targeted

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New York, September 7, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by Monday's attack on two Yemeni journalists by a group of armed men. Reports of other attacks on journalists point to a worsening situation for press freedom in the country.

06 Jul 2011
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia detains two Swedish journalists

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New York, July 5, 2011--Two Swedish journalists reporting on the activities of armed separatists operating in an oil-rich province of eastern Ethiopia have been detained without charge since Thursday in the Horn of Africa nation, according to news reports and government officials.

Ethiopian security forces arrested photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye, contributors to the Sweden-based agency Kontinent, along the border with neighboring Somalia, government spokesman Bereket Simon told CPJ.

10 Jun 2011
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Afghanistan
Religious threat to media intensifies

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Committee to Protect Journalists, International Freedom of Expression Exchange

Alert - Afghanistan

10 June 2011

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01 Apr 2011
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Sudan (the)
Government of Southern Sudan seizes "Juba Post" copies

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(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, April 1, 2011 - Security agents of the semi-autonomous government of Southern Sudan confiscated 2,500 copies of the independent biweekly newspaper, The Juba Post, on Wednesday, according to Chief Editor Michael Koma.

22 Mar 2011
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occupied Palestinian territory
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Hamas attacks Gaza news bureaus; Yemen ousts reporters

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Alert - Palestine / Yemen

22 March 2011

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(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, March 19, 2011- Hamas security forces raided media bureaus, assaulted journalists, and confiscated journalistic materials in Gaza today, punctuating another day of anti-press attacks in the restive region. In Yemen, authorities expelled two Al-Jazeera correspondents, continuing a pattern of ousting international reporters. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns these attacks on journalists and the efforts of authorities to prevent the world from

07 Jun 2010
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Sudan (the)
CPJ calls on Sudan to end newspaper censorship

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New York, June 7, 2010-The Sudanese government should halt ongoing newspaper censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today, after at least two papers failed to appear on newsstands over the weekend.

Sudanese authorities blocked printing of the opposition weekly Al-Maidan late Saturday after its staff failed to provide security personnel with an advance copy of the paper, Al-Maidan journalist Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir told CPJ.

Abdelgadir said government censors had become particularly sensitive to stories about an ongoing physicians' strike

20 Apr 2010
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Sri Lanka
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Getting Away With Murder: CPJ's 2010 Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and killers go free

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New York, April 20, 2010-Deadly, unpunished violence against the press has soared in the Philippines and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes. Impunity in journalist murders also rose significantly in Russia and Mexico, two countries with long records of entrenched, anti-press violence.

But Brazil and Colombia, historically two of the world's deadliest nations for the press, each made marked improvement

01 Jan 2010
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World
Attacks on the Press in 2009: A Worldwide Survey

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More than 30 Philippine journalists and support workers are killed in an election-related massacre. In Iran, dozens of writers and editors are jailed as the regime silences critical reporting. While violence subsides in Iraq, the danger rises in conflict zones in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Attacks on the Press describes emerging threats, highlights courageous reporting, and details the struggle for freedom of expression worldwide. In Russia, international outcry prompts the government to reopen investigations into unsolved journalist murders.
08 Dec 2009
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Myanmar
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CPJ's 2009 prison census: Freelance journalists under fire

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New York, December 8, 2009-Freelancers now make up nearly 45 percent of all journalists jailed worldwide, a dramatic recent increase that reflects the evolution of the global news business, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, CPJ found a total of 136 reporters, editors, and photojournalists behind bars on December 1, an increase of 11 from the 2008 tally. (Read detailed accounts of each imprisoned journalist.)
24 Nov 2009
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Philippines (the)
CPJ extends aid to families of slain Philippine journalists

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New York, November 24, 2009-The Committee to Protect Journalists is working with local and international media support groups to extend assistance to the families of the numerous journalists killed Monday in a brutal election-related massacre in the Philippine province of Maguindanao.

Most news reports today put the death toll at 46, with at least 12 of the victims preliminarily identified as journalists. Among the press corps victims, most appeared to be reporters for local media or stringers for national outlets.

CPJ is heartened by President Gloria

28 Oct 2009
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Sri Lanka
Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka

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New York, October 28, 2009-The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka's journalists and media organizations. Anonymous letters with death threats, at left, recently sent to Sunday Leader Editor-in-Chief Frederica Jansz and News Editor Munza Mushtaq echo those that ended in the death of the paper's founder, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in January.

"Our concern is that these most recent threats, like so many others, and the deaths of 11 journalists since President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to power in 2006, will remain unexplained

01 Jun 2004
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World
On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations

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Aimed at reporters in conflict zones and hostile areas, this report provides an overview of security issues and includes information on training courses, protective equipment, and insurance policies. It also offer useful tips on assessing, minimizing and managing risk.

This guide should be read not just by those in the field and those covering dangerous assignments, but also by the media managers who send journalists on those assignments. For managers, the safety of their journalists should be paramount. This means discouraging
25 May 2000
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: 15 Reporters killed because of their work since 1997; 13 by RUF rebels

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CPJ: "RUF Deliberately Targeted Local Reporters And Foreign Correspondents For Years"
New York, May 25, 2000 - A total of 15 journalists have been killed in Sierra Leone since 1997 because of their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), more than any other country in the world during that time period. Most of those killed were local reporters, and several of those were hunted down in direct reprisal for their reporting.

The latest journalist victims of Sierra Leone's bloody civil strife are veteran war correspondent Kurt Schork of