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CPJ Announces $1Million Initiative To Protect Climate Journalists

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: Black Star News\Kittl New York, September 23, 2024 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today announced the ...

CPJ Welcomes UK High Court Decision To Hear Julian Assange Appeal

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.K. High Court’s Monday decision ...

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Tribunal For Murdered Journalists To Open In The Hague

Photo: The Shift The Hague, November 1, 2021 – In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press ...

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Uganda Elections: Internet Use Plunged 95% Following Museveni Regime Shutdown

President Yoweri Museveni. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.   Ugandan authorities should immediately cease all efforts to disrupt internet access in the country and allow the ...

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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: DETAINED TANZANIAN JOURNALIST ERICK KABENDERA NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION

[Africa News] CPJ Sub-Saharan Africa Representative Muthoki Mumo: “Tanzanian authorities have a duty to ensure that Kabendera receives the urgent medical care he needs, ...

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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS ANNOUNCES 2019 INTERNATIONAL PRESS FREEDOM AWARD WINNERS

[Journalism News] Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will honor 2019 International Press Freedom Award winners on November 21, at Grand Hyatt Hotel, in New ...

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CPJ Welcomes Egypt Pardon of Al Jazeera Journalist

Mohammed, left and Fahmy [Media] The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the presidential pardon today of Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, ...

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MARYLAND STUDENTS LAUNCH FUND APPEAL FOR JAILED SWAZI WRITER

Mar 30 (GIN) – A journalist jailed in Swaziland is getting some unexpected help from a class of journalism students at the University of ...

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A BITTERSWEET TOAST TO ALL THE JOURNALISTS IN JAIL

Dec. 29 (GIN) – Of the thousands of relentless scribes who dig for a story, dodge bullets, follow paper trails, shine a light in ...

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CPJ Calls For Immediate Release Of Nine Ethiopian Journalists Held On “Terrorism”

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Nairobi, July 17, 2014-An Ethiopian court charged nine Ethiopian journalists arrested in April with inciting violence and terrorism, according ...