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Committee to Protect Journalists confer press freedom award on Hong Kong's
Updated : 1 year 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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Global media watchdog asks Pakistan to conduct 'credible' probe into killi
Updated : 1 year, 3 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 : 1 year, 4 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 : 1 year, 4 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 : 1 year, 6 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 : 2 years, 8 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 : 2 years, 10 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 : 3 years 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 : 3 years, 7 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 : 3 years, 9 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 : 4 years, 4 months 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 : 4 years, 5 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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