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October 28, 2008—Nearly three years after gunman left him for dead on a Baghdad street, Iraqi state television camera operator Jehad Ali arrived in the U.S. for medical treatment. CPJ’s Robert Mahoney blogs about the effort to bring Ali to the United States.
Earlier: A California Dream


Second U.S.-based Nigerian blogger held
October 31, 2008

Chilean Supreme Court upholds defamation decision
October 31, 2008

Moroccan court slams journalist with heavy damages
October 31, 2008
CPJ joins in new
Global Initiative

October 28, 2008CPJ joins a coalition of Internet companies, academics, investors, and human rights groups in launching the Global Network Initiative, which sets guidelines for the telecommunications industry to protect privacy and free expression.
CPJ Blog: Why we joined
DEATHS WORLDWIDE
33 journalists killed in 2008 [MORE]

DEATHS IN IRAQ
135 journalists and
51 media workers killed since March 2003 [MORE]




CPJ concerned
about Will probe

October 24, 2008—Mexico’s recent indictment of three people in the 2007 killing of Brad Will ignores evidence that pro-government gunmen were behind the killing. Read the letter.
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Algerian reporter convicted
after investigative article

October 29, 2008Noureddine Boukraa was convicted of disclosing “confidential” information after reporting that security officials used their positions for personal gain.

CPJ Blog: No justice
for Alisher Saipov

October 23, 2008—Alisher Saipov, a 26-year-old independent editor, was brutally silenced on October 24, 2007. A year after his death, the investigation is stalled. Muzaffar Suleymanov blogs.
 
 

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Special Reports

The Witness
A Gambian writer seeks a colleague secretly jailed, then takes the witness stand.

Malaysia's Risk Takers
With a leading blogger jailed,
Internet freedom is in jeopardy .


A California Dream

Helping an injured Iraqi cameraman

The Disappeared

Reporters are vanishing in Mexico.

The Smiling Oppressor

Tunisia silences dissent.

Finding Elmar’s Killers
Murder, imprisonment in Azerbaijan

Bad to Worse in Zimbabwe
Mugabe’s worst crackdown

Falling Short

Olympic promises go unfulfilled as China falters on press freedom.

The Other Iraq

In Kurdistan, more attacks on journalists | With Audio

 

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The Smiling Oppressor
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Finding Elmar’s Killers
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Bad to Worse in Zimbabwe
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Journalists forced into exile:
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Burma’s Firewall Fighters
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Getting Away with Murder
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