New York, April 17, 2012–Sustaining their years-long campaign against the press,
Iranian authorities have sentenced one journalist to prison and summoned
another to serve a jail term, according to news reports. The Committee to
Protect Journalists calls on authorities to release imprisoned journalists who
are being held away from their families and in deprivation.
from Committee to Protect Journalists http://cpj.org/2012/04/iranian-regime-continues-to-crack-down-on-press.php
In 2010, following midsummer negotiations between the
Catholic Church and the government of President Raúl Castro, Cuban authorities
began releasing imprisoned journalists, sending them into forced exile with their
families. In April 2011, the last of more than 20 journalists arrived in Spain.
They had been granted liberty and respite, and were promised support from
Spanish authorities while they settled into the new country. But almost two
years after the first crop of journalists arrived in Spain, the four who remain
in the country are living under extremely difficult
conditions, struggling even to feed themselves.
from Committee to Protect Journalists http://cpj.org/blog/2012/04/expelled-from-cuba-jails-exiled-journalists-langui.php
Desperate realities call for hope. It is
not just a game of words, because you don’t play with hunger and the future (my
own and my family’s). It is about going deeper into another version of
circumstances. And seeing the rainbow where others see a gloomy sun and a
stubborn and relentless rain.
I am writing this declaration of optimism now that the Spanish government has withdrawn the financial aid that it had provided us, when in the summer of 2010, directly from the Cuban jails, we arrived as former prisoners of conscience along with others there just by coincidence, or not.
from Committee to Protect Journalists http://cpj.org/blog/2012/04/cubans-exiled-in-spain-integration-or-disintegrati.php
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from Committee to Protect Journalists http://cpj.org/reports/2012/04/impunity-index-2012.php
CPJ’s María Salazar-Ferro names the 12 countries where journalists are murdered regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes. Where are leaders failing to uphold the law? Where are conditions getting better? And where is free expression in danger? (4:46)
Read CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index. And visit our Global Campaign Against Impunity and see how you can help.
from Committee to Protect Journalists http://cpj.org/reports/2012/04/video-getting-away-with-murder.php
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