Tag: Committee to Protect Journalists

• Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 08:51 UTC

  European Parliament approves Media Freedom Act, limiting governments' interference

  

  The European Media Freedom Act passed by the European Parliament  is designed to protect the editorial independence and journalistic sources across the European Union. States will also have to spend publicity expenditure using “public, proportionate and non-discriminatory criteria.”

• Thursday, December 15th 2022 - 11:09 UTC

  Record number of journalists detained worldwide; Americas most dangerous region for media, RSF report

  

  A record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide, according to the annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

• Friday, December 10th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Getting jailed for being a journalist on the rise, CPJ reports

  

  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Thursday denounced that the number of journalists jailed for their reporting work has reached a historic Zenit in 2021, with 293 of them imprisoned worldwide, 50 of whom were in China.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  People's Tribunal to hold governments accountable for the killings of journalists

  

  In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups have launched a People's Tribunal to hold governments accountable. The Tribunal, a form of grassroots justice, relies on investigations and high-quality legal analysis involving specific cases in three countries and was launched in The Hague.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 21:40 UTC

  Swiss organization says 141 journalists were killed in 2012

  

  A record number of journalists, 141 in 29 different countries, were killed globally in 2012, according to data of the Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), which fights for the protection of journalists. At least 28 of them were killed in Latinamerica.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Record number of imprisoned journalists in 2011, claims CPJ

  

  The number of journalists jailed around the world increased more than 20% in 2011, mainly because of government crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa, a nonprofit organization said Thursday.

• Monday, June 20th 2011 - 21:26 UTC

  Iran and Cuba, two of the most repressive countries for journalists, says CPJ

  

  Nearly 70 journalists were forced into exile over the past 12 months, with more than half coming from Iran and Cuba, two of the world's most repressive nations, a new survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.