Europe & Central Asia

2004

  

2004 prison census: 122 journalists jailed

Around the world, 122 journalists were in prison at the end of 2004 for practicing their profession, 16 fewer than the year before. International advocacy campaigns, including those waged by the Committee to Protect Journalists, helped win the early release of a number of imprisoned journalists, notably six independent writers and reporters in Cuba.

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Journalists Killed in the Last Ten Years

The Toll: 1995-2004 Each year in January, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) publishes a list of journalists killed in the line of duty around the world. This list has become the most widely cited press freedom statistic and is often seen as a barometer of the state of global press freedom. While the correlation…

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Journalists in prison, 2004

Around the world, 122 journalists were in prison at the end of 2004 for practicing their profession, 16 fewer than the year before. International advocacy campaigns, including those waged by the Committee to Protect Journalists, helped win the early release of a number of imprisoned journalists, notably six independent writers and reporters in Cuba.

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CPJ disturbed by journalist’s conviction

New York, December 17, 2004—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that authorities in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia have prosecuted and convicted Yuri Bagrov, a reporter who covered the North Caucasus and Chechnya for The Associated Press (AP) until September. The Leninsky court in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia’s capital, today convicted Bagrov on…

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CPJ Update

CPJ Update December 15, 2004 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

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Don’t play along with Castro’s cynical game

This article originally appeared in The International Herald Tribune December 13, 2004 www.iht.com/opinion.html NEW YORK–When Raúl Rivero was released from prison and reunited with his family in Havana last week, newspapers around the world published photographs of the smiling Cuban writer embracing his wife, Blanca.

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The Internet’s Role in Media Freedom

The Internet’s Role in Media Freedom By Mick Stern The Boston Globe December 14, 2003

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Remembering a Friend Lost to Saddam’s Terror

Remembering a Friend Lost to Saddam’s Terror by Frank Smyth International Herald Tribune June 3, 2003

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Murder by MediaWhy the Rwandan genocide tribunal went too far.

Murder by MediaWhy the Rwandan genocide tribunal went too far. By Joel Simon Slate

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Al Jazeera: Leave It to Viewers

Al Jazeera: Leave It to Viewers By Joel Campagna The International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.come/opinion.html

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2004