Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Egyptian security forces arrest son of al-Mashhad editor Magdi Shandi
- Spanish reporter Ferran Barber detained for weeks without charge, deported from Iraqi Kurdistan
- Nicaraguan customs authorities target 2 newspapers with ink, paper seizures
- Journalist detained in Iraqi Kurdistan without charge since August 21
- CPJ Insider: September 2019 edition
- Infographic: 10 Most Censored Countries
- Video: 10 Most Censored Countries
- 10 Most Censored Countries
- Eritrea, North Korea, Turkmenistan top CPJ’s 10 most censored list
Reporter Without Borders
- Palestinian Authority blocks 51 online news sources
- Two Al Jazeera journalists forced to leave Guinea
- Morocco must free citizen-journalist on hunger strike, RSF says
- Somalia : Puntland authorities persecute former radio station manager
- Journalist jailed on defamation charge in southern Kazakhstan
- Time for major press freedom reforms in DRC
- Turkey: Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak still in jail as retrial commences on new bogus terrorism charges
- RSF asks President Radev to defuse Bulgaria’s press freedom “crisis”
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.