The Committee to Protect Journalists has found that the number of journalists imprisoned for their reporting globally reached at least 250 in 2019 for the fourth consecutive year, with China and Turkey topping the list of the world’s leading jailers. As of December 1, 2019, the Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 250 journalists are in […]
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By Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen The ongoing detentions of Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo and Ethiopian editor Fekadu Mahtemework–the only journalists behind bars for their work in their countries, according to CPJ’s latest prison census–don’t tell the whole story of their governments’ crackdowns on freedom of expression. Investigations throughout 2019 to compile CPJ’s list of 250 journalists imprisoned
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The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) in New York and other human rights groups have called on Nigerian authorities to halt all efforts to intimidate journalists working with the Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news website headquartered in the United States. Sahara Reporters staff told CPJ their Nigerian bank account was frozen without advance notice in October, significantly hindering their
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By Mohamed Gibril Sesay Literature is often seen as referring to the written-word, and sometimes, further tightened to mean the scripted-word of the creative type, and again tweaked to be perceived as the printed-word of the fictional creative type –novels, short stories, poetry, drama. Our discussion of Sierra Leonean Literature dances to these understandings,
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The Committee to Protect Journalists today launched its annual #FreeThePress campaign to raise awareness of jailed journalists globally. The campaign will highlight the plight of several journalists via CPJ’s Instagram account. In dictatorships and developing democracies alike imprisonment has become an effective method to silence the press, with record numbers jailed globally in the past three
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