Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Police raid Cairo offices of Turkish Anadolu News Agency, arrest at least 4
- Ugandan police harass and detain journalists covering opposition politician Bobi Wine
- Journalist Patricia Kayuni assaulted while covering protest in Malawi
- Missing radio anchor found dead in Mexico’s Michoacán state
- Sudan suspends four news outlets over alleged financial link to Bashir regime
- Colombian magazine Semana alleges military spied on its journalists
- Montenegro reporters Živković and Raičević charged with criminal incitement
- Malawi detains, charges 3 journalists seeking to cover EU delegation’s return
- Journalists threatened, assaulted while covering local politician in Sierra Leone
Reporter Without Borders
- Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2020
- Change to “fake news” law poses new threat to Qatar’s journalists
- Somali president asked not to sign “deadly” media bill into law
- Decision to charge Greenwald is a “unjustified reprisal,” RSF says
- Indonesia : US environmental reporter detained arbitrarily in Borneo
- Open letter about threats to Iranian journalists in six EU countries and US
- Russian republic’s leader says critical journalists should be “wiped out”
- Pakistani journalist jailed over Facebook posts
OPC Calls for Tanzania to Release CPJ Workers
NEW YORK, November 7, 2018—The Overseas Press Club of America calls on Tanzanian authorities to immediately release Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo and return their passports. The pair are representatives of the Committee to Protect Journalists working on a reporting mission in Tanzania, according to the CPJ. Quintal is the Africa program coordinator and Mumo is CPJ’s sub-Saharan Africa representative.
You can read a statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists here.
The Overseas Press Club is an international association of journalists based in New York City that works to encourage the highest standards in journalism, to educate the next generation of foreign correspondents and to promote international press freedom and the well-being of colleagues in the field.