Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Digital safety: Protecting against online harassment
- Radio journalist gunned down in Somalia
- Video journalist killed in Maoist rebel attack in Chhattisgarh
- Cameroon detains journalist for a week, fails to disclose charge
- Russia uses 'foreign agents' law to hit independent outlet with massive fine
- Getting Away with Murder
- Impunity in the murders of journalists emboldens censorship
- CPJ calls on Trump to dial back rhetoric against media and critics
- CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering the migrant caravan in Mexico
Reporter Without Borders
- SYRIA: NGOs write to UN about Syrian journalist’s disappearance five years ago
- TV station owner abducted in Jalalabad
- US — #WeeklyAddress: December 3 – December 9: CNN’s New York offices evacuate after receiving bomb threat
- Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2018
- China: After evasive answers, RSF and a coalition of NGOs are demanding Google abandon Project Dragonfly
- Polish authorities stepping up harassment of independent media
- After long jail term, Moroccan journalist hit by heavy damages award
- Yemeni journalist held by military intelligence in Hadramout province
Overseas Press Club of America Denounces Jailing of Two Reuters Journalists in Myanmar
NEW YORK Sept. 4, 2018—The Overseas Press Club of America denounces a court ruling in Myanmar that found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years.
The verdict “is a major step backward in the nation’s transition to democracy,” said Stephen J. Adler, editor in chief of Reuters.
According to Reuters, Yangon northern district judge Ye Lwin said Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, breached the colonial-era Official Secrets Act when they collected and obtained confidential documents.
The two reporters, who were investigating the killing by the security forces of Rohingya villagers at the time of their arrest, had pleaded not guilty.
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.