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Pakistan among top 10 countries in the world where killers of journalists
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 30 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has ranked Pakistan at the ninth spot this year on its annual Global Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where members of the press are singled out for murder and the perpetrators go free.
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Taliban members detain, flog journalists covering protests in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], September 9 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked Taliban to immediately cease detaining journalists in Afghanistan and allow the media to operate freely and without fear of reprisal.
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Journalist body asks Pakistan to drop charges against 2 scribes, stop hara
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 11 (ANI): Pakistan authorities should immediately drop their probe into journalists Amir Mir and Imran Shafqat, and cease harassing members of the press in retaliation for their coverage of public institutions, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tue
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Committee to Protect Journalists calls for probe into killing of Danish Si
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 17 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Saturday said Afghan authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui.
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Journalist body urges Pak govt to amend proposed legislation targeting scr
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): Raising concern about the new law that threatens press freedom in Pakistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar and Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi to amend the proposed legislation.
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Committee to Protect Journalists confer press freedom award on Hong Kong's
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], June 23 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said it will honour Jimmy Lai, the imprisoned founder of Hong Kong's Next Digital media company and Apple Daily newspaper, with the 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
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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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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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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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'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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