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CPJ Insider: August 2023 edition
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Carlos Martínez de la Serna, CPJ's program director
(left) and Carlos Lauría, CPJ senior consultant, speak at a
press conference launching the report "Ecuador on edge" in
Quito, Ecuador, on June 28, 2023. (Credit: Fundamedios)
Ecuador on edge: A Q&A with CPJ Program Director Carlos
Martínez de la Serna
CPJ traveled to Quito, Ecuador, twice this year amid ongoing
conversations with government officials to improve the conditions
journalists are facing throughout the country. For this issue of
Insider, we spoke with CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de
la Serna about his travels to Ecuador, the release of our report
"Ecuador on edge" this summer, and what CPJ has been able
to accomplish. Learn more »
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One-year anniversary of José Rubén Zamora's
imprisonment reignites calls for release
CPJ held a press conference with José Rubén
Zamora's son, José Carlos Zamora; Guatemalan journalist
in exile Bertha Michelle Mendoza; and CPJ Program Director Carlos
Martínez de la Serna in a discussion moderated by Axios senior
media reporter Sara Fischer at the National Press Club in Washington,
D.C. Learn more »
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Must-read
CPJ spoke with journalists in Uganda about the new
Anti-Homosexuality Act, which criminalizes same-sex relations. The law
contains restrictions against "promoting homosexuality,"
and includes fines of up to 1 billion Ugandan shillings (US$269,000).
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It is a trap that you eventually walk into," Lydia Namubiru,
editor of The Continent, told CPJ. "You might be punished not
because anyone is necessarily outraged because you interviewed an
LGBTQ person, but because they are unhappy with your [other]
coverage."
CPJ's Lucy Westcott writes about her recent travels to Georgia and
efforts to push for the release of journalist and 2023 International
Press Freedom awardee Nika Gvaramia, as well as the time spent with
Gvaramia's wife, Sofia Liluashvili: "
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Our visit makes headlines less than an hour later on Mtavari
Arkhi's 3 p.m. bulletin. We watch it on a phone mounted to the
car's dashboard, hurtling down the road back to Tbilisi. Next to
us, Liluashvili is running Gvaramia's Twitter and Facebook
accounts, ensuring the visit is fed back out into the world."
CPJ in the news
"D.C. memorial to honor slain Capital Gazette journalists and
U.S. commitment to a free press," The Baltimore Sun
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"Gunmen wound journalist in Philippines," AFP
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"Rights group: Iran leaves 2 journalists in legal limbo to avoid
global spotlight," Voice of America
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"Free reporter Evan Gershkovich now - he's been
wrongly held in Russia for 100 days," The New York Post
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"The path to justice for Shireen Abu Akleh runs through
Washington," Just Security
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"How Stalin's control of foreign reporters helped shape
Russia coverage today," The New York Times
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"Egypt: 10 years on, Sisi's coup continues squeezing
country," Middle East Eye
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"Ethiopia: Crushing freedom creating fear," CounterPunch
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"National newspaper in Mexico says its reporter was killed in
western state," The Associated Press
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"After 13 months behind bars, Kurdish journalists to stand
trial," Voice of America
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