May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, and WAN-IFRA has released this update on impunity and journalists.
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This week: thirteen journalists attacked in Cairo, an interview with Salman Rushdie, and a Chinese director calls out censorship policies at an award ceremony.
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This week: political satire on the rise in China, Nigeria bans film on oil corruption, and a FOX reporter is threatened with jail for not revealing her sources.
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Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe writes an open letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse after her husband was killed as a result of his reporting.
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This week: the arrests of journalists on the rise in Iran, the top 20 books some governments have tried to ban, and two reporters killed in Mexico.
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This week: Turkey labeled the ‘world’s biggest prison’ for media, defining freedom of speech in Egypt, a Cuban blogger embarks on a world tour.
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Blogger Nay Phone Latt provided vital information to the outside world during Burma’s Saffron Revolution. This earned him a twenty-year jail sentence and a charge of “creating public alarm.”
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A blank page in Pakistan’s International Herald Tribune leads columnist Bina Shah on a quest to discover what was censored and why.
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This week: free speech at U.S. universities, Internet regulations to be discussed at the ITU, and Iranian writers call for an end to book censorship.
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Journalists worldwide are targeted or murdered for their work, but the offenders are rarely punished. CPJ is launching an impunity campaign to demand justice.
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