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Global media watchdog asks Pakistan to conduct 'credible' probe into killi
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 21 (ANI): Global media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Saturday demanded authorities in Pakistan's southern Sindh province to urgently conduct a "credible" investigation and arrest those responsible for this week's killing of a journalist.
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6 year jail for two Iraqi Kurdish journalists is unfair, says Committee to
Updated : 5 years, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 5 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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Journalism associations in Pakistan call for legislation to protect journa
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 3 (ANI): The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Freedom Network on Monday called on the federal government to initiate legislation for the protection of journalists in the country.
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US expresses concern over restrictions on journalists in Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 7 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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Londonderry riots: Police arrest 2 suspects in journalist's killing
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Belfast [UK], Apr 20 (ANI): Northern Ireland police on Saturday arrested two men, aged 18 and 19 years, in connection with the killing of investigative journalist Lyra McKee who was shot during the riots in Londonderry.
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Tanzania: 2 journalists freed from detention
Updated : 7 years, 6 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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Egyptian court jails Photojournalist Shawkan for 5 years
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Sep 08 (ANI): Photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as 'Shawkan', was convicted earlier today and sentenced to serve five years in prison. He, however, will be released in next few days as he has already served the time in pre-trial detention.
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'Journalism is dying out in Pakistan'
Updated : 7 years, 8 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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Media under heavy assault in Myanmar: CJP
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Feb 13 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) has blamed Myanmar for suppressing freedom of the press in the country.
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Trump's media war threatens journalists globally, warns CPJ
Updated : 8 years, 9 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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