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    • Zhu Ruifeng
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / February 2, 2013

      This week: an interview with Salman Rushdie, BBC censors a play on honor killings, and Chinese hackers attack the New York Times.

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    • Tsering Woeser
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / January 12, 2013

      This week: Tibetan writer Tsering Woser talks about her detention, the censorship protest in China comes to a close, and the future of music in Mali.

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    • Frank Smyth, journalist
      Frank Smyth: “Personal security is a core function of being a journalist.”
      by Ryan Black / June 1, 2012

      In this interview with journalist Frank Smyth, he explains why a new journalist security guide was necessary, the specific challenges that make journalist security unique, and how rampant impunity for violence against journalists can devastate free press.

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    • Bangladesh Protest
      Bangladesh Media Protest over Journalist Couple’s Murder
      by Laura VanVliet / March 29, 2012

      Bangladeshi and international media organizations protest for justice in the case of slain journalists Meherun Runi and Sagar Sarowar, and for safety of journalists in Bangladesh. Runi and Sarowar were working to expose illegal land-grabbing by a corporation at the time of the murders.

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    • Shaye
      Jeremy Scahill: “Why is President Obama Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison?”
      by Democracy Now / March 15, 2012

      The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. We speak to Mohamed Abdel Dayem of CPJ and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.

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    • Ana Marcela Yarce Viveros, left, and Rocio González Trapaga. Photo: © Contralinea
      Two More Journalists Become Victims of Mexico’s Culture of Violence
      by Liam Sweeney / September 8, 2011

      On September 1st two female journalists connected to the political magazine, Contralinea, were found murdered in a Mexico City park. According to Reporters Without Borders, eighty journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.

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    • Journalists Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik react as they arrive to a courthouse in Istanbul
      Q&A: Two of Turkey’s Leading Journalists Speak From Jail
      by Sampsonia Way / August 11, 2011

      The arrest of Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in March this year has put press freedom in Turkey under the international spotlight. CPJ’s Robert Mahoney sent written questions to the reporters in their Istanbul jail. Read their replies.

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    • Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz
      Third Journalist Killed this Year in Veracruz, Mexico
      by Olivia Stransky / July 28, 2011

      Yolanda Ordaz is the third journalist to be killed this year in the Mexican state of Veracruz and is among more than 70 killed since 2000, according to press rights groups and media tallies.

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    • Omar Asaad
      Syria Detains and Expels Reporters
      by Silvia Duarte / July 20, 2011

      Syrian government has detained Omar al-Assad, a local journalist who contributes to pan-Arab news outlets, and expelled Maarten Zeegers, a reporter for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard.

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    • Vicente garcia
      Q&A with Filipino Writer Vicente García Groyón
      by Silvia Duarte / April 19, 2011

      Here Vicente García Groyón talks to Khet Mar about decades of censorship against journalists in the Philippines and his passion for non-fiction writing and film scripts, among other topics.

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