May 10, 2007
DANGEROUS IRAQ
• Journalist
deaths• Abductions
• Reports and
commentary
Journalists killed in Iraq since March 2003: 102
Support workers killed: 39
More Special Reports
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Static
in Venezuela Chávez pulls a radio station's license
• A Killing in Mexico
Is the government covering up?
• The Enemy?
Journalist detained for years by the U.S.
• Radio rage in Brazil's remote Northeast
Versão em português
• Deadly News: Few journalist murders have been solved
• Yemen: The press climate is deterioratng
• Saudi Arabia: Princes, clerics and censors.
• Turkey: Nationalism and the press
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Faded
Colors
A CPJ Special Report:
The Color Revolutions have yet to deliver lasting press freedom reform
in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan
A CPJ Special Report:
The Color Revolutions have yet to deliver lasting press freedom reform
in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan
 New York,
May 9, 2007—The Color Revolutions of Georgia, Ukraine, and
Kyrgyzstan have yielded some modest improvements in press freedom
but have yet to lead to the lasting reforms promised by new
leadership in each nation, the Committee to Protect Journalists has
found in a
new analysis, “Faded Colors.” The new central governments
have been less aggressive in harassing the press, CPJ found, but the
continuing lack of judicial and regulatory reform has left media
outlets in need of influential patrons. “Political parties, the
business elite, and senior government officials have moved
assertively to fill the vacuum,” writes author Alex Lupis, CPJ’s
former senior program coordinator for Europe and Central Asia.
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| UZBEKISTAN In sanction talks, EU must consider Uzbek press record LETTER May 9, 2007 SOMALIA In Puntland, radio contributor shot during army raid NEWS ALERT May 9, 2007 GAZA Palestinian group claims it’s holding Johnston, makes public demands NEWS ALERT May 9, 2007 AFRICA CPJ mourns death of AP correspondent Anthony Mitchell NEWS ALERT May 8, 2007 BRAZIL Journalist who denounced corruption shot dead Versão em português Versión en español NEWS ALERT May 7, 2007 |
Washington, D.C., May 8, 2007—A panel
sponsored by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the National Press
Club’s Freedom of the Press Committee today expressed concern about the
ongoing detentions without charge of two journalists by the U.S. military
in Iraq and at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Associated
Press photographer Bilal Hussein and Al-Jazeera camera operator Sami
al-Haj, both imprisoned by the U.S. military without due process, were the
focus of discussion. Hussein has been held for 13 months, and al-Haj for
more than five years.
Washington, D.C., May 9, 2007—Mexico’s federal
government must take concrete steps to protect press freedom and prosecute
those responsible for crimes against the press, a delegation from the
Committee to Protect Journalists said in a meeting Tuesday with the
Mexican ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana.
Expressing concern about the wave of deadly attacks against the media, the
CPJ delegation called on the Mexican government to strengthen the office
of the special prosecutor for press crimes and to make protection of free
expression a federal responsibility. Versión
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