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WikiLeaks and CPJ in dispute after journalist 'flees' Ethiopia
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports Ethiopian journalist Argaw Ashine fled the country after appearing in an unredacted embassy cable, but WikiLeaks says he was named 'in passing' and not as an informant
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 16/09/11Ban Ki-moon calls for 'plan of action' to protect journalists
In an address to an inter-agency meeting the UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon urges agencies to formulate a joint approach to the protection of journalists
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14/09/11TUC: NUJ to call for support against far-right groups
National Union of Journalists submits emergency motion to TUC conference over alleged attacks on the press by members of the English Defence League
Posted by Joel Gunter on 12/09/11Offices of Al Jazeera's Egypt TV channel raided
Arabic broadcaster claims authorities raided channel's offices on Sunday, confiscating broadcasting equipment
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 12/09/11Al Jazeera demands Israel releases detained journalist
Kabul bureau chief has been held by Israeli authorities for 28 days, reportedly on suspicion of ties to Palestinian organisation Hamas
Posted by Joel Gunter on 07/09/11Grant launched in memory of Tim Hetherington
World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch launch photography grant in honour of Tim Hetherington, the British-born photojournalist killed in Libya earlier this year
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/09/11Fund launched for children of slain photographer
Photojournalists from across the world donate images to fundraising site for children of London-based photographer Anton Hammerl, killed in Libya
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 05/09/11Ex-police colonel charged over Politkovskaya murder
A former Moscow police colonel has been charged in connection with the murder of the campaigning journalist and identified a Chechen businessman as having helped organise the crime
Posted by Joel Gunter on 05/09/11Press freedom group urges quick release of Sudan journalists
According to reports Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir pledged to release all detained journalists at the weekend, but following just a single release Reporters Without Borders has called for more action
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30/08/11CPJ repeats concerns for Libyan journalists still missing
The Committee to Protect Journalists has highlighted ongoing concerns for at least six journalists who have been missing since March, in light of recent attacks on the press
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/08/11Hunger-strike journalist wins leave to remain in UK
James Fallah-Williams, who was facing deportation from the UK back to Sierra Leone, has won three years discretionary leave to remain according to the NUJ
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 26/08/11Journalists trapped in Tripoli hotel 'very anxious'
Foreign reporters trapped in Tripoli's Rixos hotel for the fifth day in a row warn of extreme tension as water and food starts to run out
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 24/08/11Hunger strike journalist awaits deportation decision
James Fallah Williams, who is fighting deportation to Sierra Leone, has ended a 19-day hunger strike after the UK border agency agreed to review his case
Posted by Joel Gunter on 22/08/11Tajik BBC journalist tells court he was tortured
Urunboy Usmonov has told a court in Tajikistan that he was tortured and forced to sign a confession after being arrested on charges of extremism, which he denies
Posted by Joel Gunter on 19/08/11BBC reporter appears in Tajik court on extremism charge
Urunboy Usmonov appeared in court in Tajikistan today, over charges relating to contact with an extremist Islamic group
Posted by Joel Gunter on 16/08/11Israel: Al Jazeera bureau chief 'held without charge'
Al Jazeera reports Kabul bureau chief Samer Allawi is arrested while crossing the border between Jordan and the West Bank
Posted by Joel Gunter on 16/08/11BBC reporters flee on foot as radio car torched in Salford
Two-man BBC crew come under attack and cameraman assaulted in separate incident as rioting spreads to the north-west
Posted by Joel Gunter on 10/08/11'They were planning to kill me, it was really bad'
Kenyan journalist Fatuma Noor risked her life investigating members of Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab but won a CNN MultiChoice African Journalist award for her reporting
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 09/08/11London riots: journalists attacked across city
Reporters, photographers, and film crews have been confronted and attacked while attempting to cover outbreaks of violence and looting in the capital
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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'
WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms
Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's
The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011Index: Take action to end impunity
This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated
The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim
Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]
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Libya: CNN journalist injured in grenade attack
CNN producer Ian Lee has been treated in hospital for shrapnel wound after being shot in the ankle as his crew came under attack
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 19/09/11