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6 year jail for two Iraqi Kurdish journalists is unfair, says Committee to
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], February 20 (ANI): The sentencing of Iraqi Kurdish journalists Sherwan Sherwani and Guhdar Zebari to six years in jail "for jeopardising Kurdish national security" is "unfair and disproportionate", according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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Russia should release Journalists detained at protests, says Committee to
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], February 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Russia to release journalists detained during the January 23 and January 31 unauthorized protests.
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China worst offender in record-breaking year for jailing of journalists am
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [China], December 16 (ANI): China, which has arrested several journalists for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the world's worst jailer for the second year in a row, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent press freedom advocacy
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US expresses concern over restrictions on journalists in Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], Oct 19 (ANI): The United States has expressed concern over restrictions on journalists in Pakistan after the country's authorities denied entry to the head of Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) Steven Butler.
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Pak journalists living under threat for exposing ISI-jihadi groups' nexus
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris, [France], Aug 6 (ANI): Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui, who escaped a kidnapping attempt last year in his country, still feels 'unsafe' as he continues to get threats even after one year.
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Russian scribe charged for attempted selling of drugs
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Jun 9 (ANI): A Moscow court on Saturday charged a Russian investigative journalist for attempted large-scale sale of drugs, according to the scribe's lawyer.
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Tanzania: 2 journalists freed from detention
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Nov 9 (ANI): Two scribes from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American-based independent non-profit organisation, were released from detention in Tanzania and have departed from the country.
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'Journalism is dying out in Pakistan'
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sept 8 (ANI): Pakistan-based journalists have said that they are being silenced through various means, with scribes being blindfolded and beaten up mercilessly. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent press freedom advocacy organisation, has taken note of t
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India ranks 81st in global corruption index
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Feb 23 (ANI): India has been ranked 81st on the global corruption perception index 2017, in terms of graft and press freedom in the Asia-Pacific region, as per a report released by Transparency International (TI).
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McCain tells Trump to 'stop attacking press'
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [United States], Jan 18 (ANI): Republican Senator John McCain has called on United States President Donald Trump to cease his attacks on the American press.
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Trump's media war threatens journalists globally, warns CPJ
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 26 (ANI): The Trump administration should 'act as a champion of press freedom', rather than prosecute a war with mainstream US media that could 'send a signal to other countries that it is OK to verbally abuse journalists and undermine their credibi
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CPJ, IFJ demand probe into B'desh journo's murder
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Feb. 5 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked the Bangladesh to vigorously probe the killing of the daily Samakal newspaper journalist, Abdul Hakim Shimul.
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