Press Freedom Now

25/06/2014

Our shocking new post at PressFreedomNow.org about how some Egyptian journalists are actually applauding the persecution of their colleagues by the government of .

On June 23 an Egyptian court sentenced two Al Jazeera journalists, Australian Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, to seven years in prison. A third Al Jazeera journalist, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Their crime? Journalism. Greste, Fahmy, and Mohame…

23/06/2014

Outrageous injustice in . Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed convicted, sentenced to prison for journalism.

Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy sentenced to seven years in prison, Baher Mohamed sentenced to 10.

18/06/2014

Further releases expected as Abdullah Elshamy walks free after being detained since last August without charge

17/06/2014

Shocking photo of Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy after 147 days on hunger strike. Fortunately, he is being freed after 306 days imprisonment in .

Reporter to be freed on medical grounds after being held without charge for 306 days and protesting with hunger strike.

17/06/2014

Great news, Abdallah Elshamy is free!

Abdallah Elshamy released on health grounds after being imprisoned for nearly a year without trial

06/06/2014

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02/06/2014

The Supreme Court declined to take up a major press freedom case concerning New York Times reporter and author James Risen’s fight to quash a subpoena for his testimony about confidential sources. The government served a subpoena on Risen in May 2011 seeking his testimony in a case against former CI…

01/06/2014

Shocking.

Istanbul correspondent detained while on air as Turkey remains starkly divided

27/05/2014

A journalist goes missing nearly every day in http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/a-journalist-goes-missing-nearly-every-day-in-ukraine-9440108.html

The campaign by pro-Russian separatists to muzzle local Ukrainian journalists appears to be succeeding. Scores of foreign and local Ukrainian journalists are being attacked, brutalised and held captive with increasing intensity. Nearly every day since the beginning of April, a new missing person’s r…

15/05/2014

Disturbing, but at the same time a bit humorous story about press freedom in - Pro government daily fails own columnist’s ‘press freedom test’ http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/pro-government-daily-fails-own-columnists-press-freedom-test.aspx?pageID=238&nID=66399&NewsCatID=339

In her piece, Gönül Tol argued that criticizing a Freedom House report by stressing that the NGO s founders are jewish was wrong

14/05/2014

Freelance photographer Camille Lepage has been killed in the Central African Republic

A 26-year-old French photojournalist who had spent months documenting deadly conflict in Central African Republic has been killed, the French presidency said Tuesday. Camille Lepage, a freelance photographer whose work was published in major French and American newspapers, died in western...

13/05/2014

Some of the dangers and difficulties faced by journalists in

Journalists in Mexico are finding themselves the target of death threats, physical attacks, arbitrary detentions, and assassinations.