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Committee to Protect Journalists
@pressfreedom
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide. info@cpj.org
Mar 4 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Attacks on journalists’ lives and liberty remained at near record-levels in 2023. A thread.

CPJ documented 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023, and 320 journalists imprisoned for their work as of the December 1 date of our annual prison census.

CPJ's interactive map shows journalist killings and jailings in 2023: cpj.org/2024/02/attack…Image Attacks on journalists’ lives and liberty remained at near record-levels in 2023. A thread.

Israel became the source for over 75% of journalist killings in 2023, and rose to the world's sixth-worst jailer of journalists after the start of the Israel-Gaza war on October 7.

Explore CPJ's interactive map of journalist killings and jailings in 2023: cpj.org/2024/02/attack…Image
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May 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Read CPJ’s new report, “Deadly Pattern: 20 journalists died by Israeli military fire in 22 years. No one has been held accountable.” below:

cpj.org/reports/2023/0… #ShireenAbuAkleh’s “shooting sent a chill through the Palestinian and foreign press corps, which again saw that reporters on assignment can be killed or injured with impunity. It also robbed the world of a vital, on-the-ground source of news about Israel's actions in the occupied… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
May 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
🧵: In CPJ’s new report, “Deadly Pattern,” CPJ provides recommendations to #Israel, to the United States, and to the international community. Image In our new report, CPJ calls on Israel to open criminal investigations into the cases of murdered journalists Shireen Abu Akleh, Ahmed Abu Hussein, and Yaser Murtaja

Read all of our recommendations to Israel → cpj.org/reports/2023/0…

#EndImpunity #PressFreedom #ShireenAbuAkleh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
May 9, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
NEW REPORT: Since 2001, CPJ has documented at least 20 journalist killings by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The vast majority — 18 — were Palestinian. No one has ever been charged or held accountable for these deaths.

Read more in CPJ’s new report → cpj.org/reports/2023/0…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image On May 11, 2022, Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot in the head while reporting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Ahead of the first anniversary of her murder, CPJ revisited 20 cases of journalists killed by the Israel Defense… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jan 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Iranian journalists face long prison terms, lashes, and harsh restrictions over protest coverage
cpj.org/2023/01/irania… Iranian authorities have arrested at least 88 journalists since September 2022, when mass protests erupted across the country following the death of a 22-year-old woman, #MahsaAmini, after morality police arrested her.
cpj.org/2022/09/names-…
Jan 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Two Peruvian journalists injured in hit-and-run
cpj.org/2023/01/two-pe… #Peru: Journalist Pablo Torres told CPJ he believed he was targeted for reporting on alleged corruption and mismanagement by the local government in #Bellavista.
cpj.org/2023/01/two-pe…
Jan 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Dozens of journalists harassed, injured amid Peru protests
cpj.org/2023/01/dozens… #Peru: At a news conference on January 10, @ANP_periodistas President Zuliana Lainez said at least 72 journalists had been harassed or attacked since protests broke out in December, following the impeachment and arrest of former President Pedro Castillo.

cpj.org/2023/01/dozens…
Jan 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In a letter to @Twitter, CPJ & @RSF_en express concern over the rapid deterioration of basic human rights standards and responsible platform governance.

cpj.org/cpj-rsf-send-l… The rapid deterioration of human rights standards & responsible platform governance at Twitter are contributing to a hostile environment for journalists, which could put them in physical danger & threaten the public’s right to access important information.
cpj.org/cpj-rsf-send-l…
Jan 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
#Myanmar sentences 8 journalists to years in prison, releases 6 others

cpj.org/2023/01/myanma… In December, #Myanmar courts sentenced at least eight independent journalists to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years.

cpj.org/2023/01/myanma…
Jan 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Senegalese journalist Pape Alé Niang released again from custody under tight bail restrictions
cpj.org/2023/01/senega… #Senegal: Pape Alé Niang, director of the privately owned Senegalese news website Dakarmatin, was released January 10 on bail under the condition that he refrains from traveling or speaking about his case.
cpj.org/2023/01/senega…
Jan 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#Belarus orders Russian journalist Yekaterina Yanshina detained for 15 days
cpj.org/2023/01/belaru… On January 5, authorities at a court in Minsk, #Belarus, detained Yekaterina Yanshina, a journalist and human rights activist with the Russian human rights center Memorial, while she attended the trial of four people affiliated with the banned Belarusian human rights group Viasna
Jan 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Benin journalist Virgile Ahouansè held for 2 days, charged with spreading false news
cpj.org/2023/01/benin-… #Benin: An officer with the police criminal brigade called internet radio station Crystal News' Virgile Ahouansè & asked him to appear at a police station in Porto-Novo. When Ahouansè arrived at the station, officers arrested him & held him for 48 hours.

cpj.org/2023/01/benin-…
Dec 21, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Taliban releases American journalist Ivor Shearer; CPJ calls for more releases
cpj.org/2022/12/taliba… #Afghanistan: “The release of journalist Ivor Shearer is a small relief after four months of unjust and arbitrary detention, and we call on the Taliban to immediately release all other journalists who are being held,” said @CPJAsia's @behlihyi.

More: cpj.org/2022/12/taliba…
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Ethiopia must release journalist Meskerem Abera @MeetMeski after second detention this year
cpj.org/2022/12/ethiop… #Ethiopia: Federal police detained Ethio Nikat Media's founder Meskerem Abera on Dec. 13

On Dec. 15, her detention was extended for police to investigate allegations that she incited violence, disseminated misinformation, & defamed the military through her outlet & social media
Dec 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Bulgarian authorities question reporter and editor about sources
cpj.org/2022/12/bulgar… #Bulgaria: Prosecutors summoned journalists Alexei Lazarov & Desislava Nikolova for questioning regarding allegations of drug markups in state-owned hospitals that were published in @capitalbg. Nikolova was asked about the source of an internal Ministry of Health report she cited
Dec 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Kazakh financial police arrest investigative journalist Mikhail Kozachkov
cpj.org/2022/12/kazakh… On December 18, officers from #Kazakhstan’s Financial Monitoring Agency in Almaty arrested Mikhail Kozachkov, who covers alleged corruption and abuses by government officials and prominent business figures for independent news website @time_kz and his Telegram channel.
Dec 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Like spyware, forensic tools can access everything on a phone or computer, but unlike spyware, such tools are in widespread, open usage in democracies as well as more repressive regimes.

@madelineearp

cpj.org/2022/12/forens… Image It’s become routine for authorities to take phones and computers into custody when they are investigating a journalist.

CPJ’s 2022 prison census lists examples from Iran, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Vietnam, India, and Russia.

cpj.org/reports/2022/1…
Dec 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Senegalese journalist Pape Alé Niang released on bail with ban on foreign travel, speaking about case

cpj.org/2022/12/senega… “The fact that journalist Pape Alé Niang is no longer in a jail cell in #Senegal is small relief given the stifling bail conditions placed on him,” said @angelaquintal, @CPJAfrica program coordinator.

cpj.org/2022/12/senega…
Dec 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
In an Iran roiled by protests, journalists face a war of attrition — by @YeganehSalehi

cpj.org/2022/12/in-an-… #Iran is the world’s worst jailer of journalists in 2022.

Dozens of reporters are among those arrested during nationwide protests since the death of #MahsaAmini.

Learn about the 62 journalists imprisoned in Iran as of December 1.: cpj.org/data/imprisone…
Dec 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#Turkey’s longest-serving jailed journalist, Hatice Duman, is now 50. She has been behind bars since April 2003, serving a life sentence on charges including propaganda & being a member of the banned Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP).

cpj.org/2022/12/after-… Image Turkey’s Constitutional Court decided journalist Hatice Duman’s right to a fair trial had been violated and twice ordered a retrial.
cpj.org/data/people/ha…
Dec 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Turkish journalist Sinan Aygül arrested under new ‘disinformation’ law
cpj.org/2022/12/turkis… #Turkey: Sinan Aygül, of @Bitlisnews & the Bitlis Journalists Society, was arrested for allegedly spreading false information online.
The day before, Aygül tweeted allegations about a sexual assault case, but later deleted the tweets & apologized, saying that he had been mistaken