Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Sierra Leone security forces attack, charge journalist covering COVID-19
- Tajikistan bans independent Akhbor news website
- Peruvian political cartoonist Carlos Tovar Samanez receives death threats
- Journalists detained, assaulted in India during COVID-19 lockdown
- Iran arrests 2 journalists for allegedly sharing cartoon mocking government’s COVID-19 response
- CPJ, 73 media and rights groups urge Asian heads of state to release jailed journalists
- Chinese police detain 2 volunteers who collect and share censored news, 1 more missing
- CPJ, partners call for release of Beninese journalist Ignace Sossou on appeal
- Police in India’s Tamil Nadu state arrest journalist over COVID-19 coverage
Reporter Without Borders
- Zimbabwe: Two journalists held for violating coronavirus lockdown rules
- Vietnam arrests two leading members of independent journalists group
- Covid-19: six Chinese defenders of press freedom still in detention
- Beijing’s “national security” measures threaten Hong Kong’s journalists
- Cameroon: Imprisoned journalist’s case referred to UN special rapporteur on right to health
- Cambodian radio journalist held for covering land dispute
- Regulators gradually imposing official line monopoly on Turkey’s media
- Myanmar journalist jailed for two years for reporting Covid-19 death
Press Freedom Groups Condemn China’s Expulsion of Chris Buckley
China effectively expelled Chris Buckley, a longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times, on May 8 after authorities rejected his request to renew his visa. The Australian native recently spent 76 days in Wuhan reporting on the COVID-19 crisis and has been based in China for the past 24 years. Chinese state media has attacked him personally in recent months for his reporting on the epidemic, which included government secrecy and delays in the fight against the virus, as well as public outrage over the death of whistleblower, Li Wenliang. Press freedom organizations including Reporters Without Borders (RWB) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the move and called for China to stop using visa rejections in retaliation against journalists.