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November 22, 2017 2:07 PM ET His Excellency Prime Minister of Algeria Ahmed Ouyahia Doctor Saadan Street Algiers, Algeria 16000 Via Fax: +213 21 736118 Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Dear Prime Minister Ouyahia, The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent press freedom advocacy organization, writes to urge your government to drop the charges against and immediately release freelance journalist and …

New York, November 20, 2017–Mauritanian authorities on November 16 approved an amendment to the country’s penal code that could allow courts to retroactively retry freelance blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, who was convicted of blasphemy in 2014, and potentially re-sentence him to death, the state-owned news agency AMI and Agence France-Presse reported. The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned this …

    New York – Guatemalan authorities should immediately release community reporter Jerson Antonio Xitumul Morales and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday. Local police on November 11 arrested Xitumul, a reporter with the independent digital media outlet Prensa Comunitaria, in Guatemala’s eastern Izabal province, Jorge Santos, the head of the national human rights …

New York – Venezuela’s constituent assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a law that mandates punishment including a prison sentence of up to 20 years for anyone who instigates hate or violence on the radio, television or via social media. The new law, the Anti-Hate Law for Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence, states that public and private media are “obligated to broadcast …

CPJ, along with over 30 Iranian and international human rights organizations, has called on the U.N. General Assembly to vote in favor of a proposed resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran next week. The letter highlights how, despite steps toward human rights reform since President Hassan Rouhani assumed the presidency, Iran has failed to cooperate …

New York—Four inspiring journalists from Cameroon, Mexico, Thailand, and Yemen will be honored with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2017 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous journalism. The awardees have covered the news at great risk, including retribution from political leaders,and two have had to flee their homes because of death threats. One of the awardees has …

Anti-corruption stakeholders in Nigeria convened for a Preparatory Consultative Meeting ahead of the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR), scheduled to hold in Washington DC on December 4-6, 2017 and rose with a strong message for the Nigerian Government on effective fight against graft. In a paper, tagged statement of action, signed by the Executive Director, Africa Network for Environment …

New York, October 26, 2017–Chadian authorities should immediately release from detention and drop all charges against Juda Allahondoum, publisher of the weekly Le Visionnairenewspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Judicial police in the capital N’djamena on October 17 arrested Allahondoum after he published an article in the October 11-17 edition of Le Visionnaire that accused Air Inter 1, …

Beirut –The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday called on Israeli authorities to stop harassing Palestinian media and to release two staff members of a media company arrested during a series of raids in the West Bank yesterday. Avichay Adraee, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson for Arabic Media, said in a statement published on an IDF Facebook account on …

Beirut – Kurdish journalists Dilshan Ibash and Hawker Faisal Mohammed died from injuries sustained during October 12 suicide car bomb attacks that occurred in the eastern Syrian village of Abu Fas, where the two reporters were covering civilian displacement, according to their employer, Hawar News Agency, and the Syrian Journalists Association. Ibash died at the scene of the attack on …