Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- CPJ calls on Slovakia not to adopt press law amendment
- Covering elections: Journalist safety kit
- Turkmenistan journalist Soltan Achilova barred from traveling abroad
- Myanmar Supreme Court to hear appeal of jailed Reuters reporters
- Journalist Hiram Moreno survives gun attack in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Zambia suspends independent TV broadcaster for 30 days
- India elections 2019: Journalist safety kit
- British journalist in Albania targeted in smear campaign
- Internet blackouts in Venezuela, and fighting for justice in the Maldives
Reporter Without Borders
- Court in northern part of Cyprus urged to acquit two journalists of insulting Erdoğan
- Syria : Well-known Syrian citizen-journalist probably died in detention in 2013
- Police investigating killing of a journalist in Northern Ireland
- RSF Index 2019: UK rises in ranking, but press freedom climate remains worrying
- RSF’s Turkey representative defends himself in court
- Pakistani investigative reporter accused of “cyber-terrorism”
- RSF index 2019: regional analysis
- US – #WeeklyAddress: April 8 – 14: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London on behalf of US
OPC Condemns sentencing of 3 in Egypt
The Overseas Press Club of America condemns the court rulings out of Cairo today. The sentences meted out to Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of Al Jazeera are outrageous and based on unacceptable standards of evidence. Indeed, the so-called proofs of their crime include at least one doctored photograph and innocuous videos that have absolutely nothing to do with their work in Egypt. In the meantime, the conditions under which the trio are kept are inhumane and cruel. The OPC of America joins journalistic colleagues the world over and the governments of a multitude of free nations in condemning this travesty of justice. We demand the reversal of the judgments today and, more importantly, the immediate release of Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed.