Across Africa, 12 countries were keeping at least 75 journalists behind bars as of 1 December ― not counting those who were detained and released
It’s official: Eritrea is the world’s most censored country. This is one journalist’s account of what it is like to work there
CPJ has documented a deeply troubling erosion of press freedom in several member states, including attacks on journalists
Maxence Melo Mubyazi is one of five recipients of the 2019 International Press Freedom Award.
2019’s first recorded death of a journalist happened in Accra in mid-January
The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year around the world were ‘singled out for murder’
Many of the journalists on Malema’s list have already been subjected to a torrent of abuse on social media platforms
Tanzania’s President Magufuli is facing growing international pressure and sanction over the repression of civil society, the media and gay people
There are conflicting accounts of what happened to Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo during their detention in Tanzania
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said Tanzanian authorities told her Quintal and Mumo were detained because they had contravened their visa regulations
Today more journalists are murdered because of their reporting than die in war zones
‘Journalists will not go down without a fight, even as it becomes ever more difficult to do so’
Angela Quintal and her Committee to Protect Journalists colleague Muthoki Mumo are now free to leave Tanzania
Viktoria Marinova is the third high-profile journalist to be killed in the European Union in the past year, and the fourth since the start of 2017
On Wednesday, President Kenyatta signed a lengthy new Bill into law, criminalising cybercrimes including fake news, cyberbullying and cyberespionage
There has been no honeymoon period for the press under the new government of President George Weah
The Cameroonian government is silencing dissent by using the ambiguous provisions of an anti-terrorism law to arrest and harass journalists
A new anti-terror law is being used to silence any critical media that brings attention to the poor governance of President Biya’s and his government
The United States has revealed a military attempt to rescue slain journalist James Foley from terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
An international media rights body has criticised the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng for proposing licences for journalists and increased media regulation.
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/ 9 December 2011
The Committee to Protect Journalists are in solidarity with SA media that have voiced their worries over the Protection of State Information Bill.
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/ 20 September 2009
In the past decade alone, at least 17 journalists in Russia have been killed. Someone is getting away with murdering journalists.
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/ 19 September 2007
An influential Somali radio station went off the air on Wednesday after two government soldiers threatened to pound the building with ”machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles”, the radio station’s director said. Shabelle radio shut down one day after police searching for insurgents opened fire outside the station, killing one person.