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Special Reports
Turkmenistan
Reports
| Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
CPJ names the worst online oppressors. Booming online cultures in many Asian and Middle Eastern nations
have led to aggressive government repression.
Reports
| Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Multimedia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Vietnam
In our special report, “10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger,” CPJ names the world’s leading online oppressors. Here, Deputy Director Robert Mahoney explains why CPJ undertook this report and how it arrived at its conclusions. Listen to the mp3 on the player above, or right click here to download. (5:34)
Read “10 Worst Places to be a Blogger.”
Dangerous Assignments
| Afghanistan, Algeria, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, Turkmenistan
Majority are murdered; worldwide death toll rises
Dangerous Assignments
| Belarus, Burma, Central Asia, China, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, France, Guinea, Libya, Spain, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
See updated list of 10 Most Censored Countries at http://cpj.org/reports/2012/05/10-most-censored-countries.php. |
Dangerous Assignments
| Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Haiti, Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Russia, Turkmenistan, Zimbabwe
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is again marking World
Press Freedom Day, Monday, May 3, by naming the World’s Worst Places to
Be a Journalist. The list of 10 places represents the full range of current
threats to press freedom.
Uzbekistan has one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world, as the author learned when she launched her journalism career in Tashkent.
Dangerous Assignments
| Afghanistan, East Timor, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
The UN and the Indonesian government both think they know who killed two journalists in East Timor last year. So why aren't the suspects on trial?
Dangerous Assignments
| Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan
On May 3, in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day, CPJ announced its annual identification of the top 10 Enemies of the Press worldwide. Those who made the list this year, as in the past, earned the dubious distinction by exhibiting particular zeal for the ruthless suppression of journalists. Gen. Sani Abacha of Nigeria was named the press' worst enemy.
Dangerous Assignments
| Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- For the third consecutive year, Ethiopia held more journalists in jail--31 at year's end--than any other country in Africa. Most were detained without charges.
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