Six journalists detained over video that appeared to show President wetting himself. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling for their release. This week, six employees of the state broadcaster were detained. Six journalists have been detained in South Sudan as a result of the distribution of video that appeared to show President Salva Kiir … Read more
On April 26th, an official from Ethiopia’s attorney general’s office took to state media to express his disappointment with what he saw as a lack of police action in combating disinformation and hate speech. That was interpreted as a terrible omen by a lot of journalists in the country. “When I heard the call, I … Read more
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopia to free two journalists that it said had been charged with “outrages against the constitution” and faced a possible death sentence. “After months of arbitrary detention, the anti-state charges filed against Ethiopian journalists Dessau Dulla and Bikila Amenu, potentially carrying the death penalty, are outrageous,” … Read more
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent watchdog body, has called on the authorities in Indian Occupied Kashmir to cease harassing journalist Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor-in-Chief of The Wire, a news website, and allow journalists to report freely. According to media reports, the occupied Kashmir police headquarters issued a legal notice on July 3 to … Read more
