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CPJ Insider: October 2023 edition

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CPJ Senior Researcher Yeganeh Rezaian (left) accepts the Clooney
Foundation for Justice for Women Albie Award from Julianna Margulies
(right) on behalf of Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi (Yvonne
Tnt/BFA.com)

Iran one year later: key trends from CPJ's research

In the year since Iranians took to the streets to protest the death of
22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by morality police for
alleged "improper" wearing of the hijab, CPJ documented
the arrests of around 100 journalists swept up in a crackdown on the
demonstrations For this issue of Insider, we are sharing an
abbreviated feature by CPJ's Middle East and North Africa
program that takes a closer look at some of the key trends we're
seeing for journalists affected by the crackdown. Learn more
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CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg joins panel at the Clinton Global
Initiative 

CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg (second from left) participated in a
panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative in September
alongside Dow Jones CEO and Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour
and Washington Post writer Jason Rezaian (right). Former White House
Press Secretary Dana Perino (second from right) moderated a discussion
on the case of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich
and other journalists like him. Learn more »
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CPJ spoke with Saeede Fathi, an Iranian freelance sports reporter, who
was arrested in October last year and released on bail in December.
Seeking asylum in Vienna, Austria, she has continued her reporting on
Iranian female athletes. "

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I am currently trying to learn German and improve my English and I
hope to be able to be the voice of women and advocate for my
colleagues in Iran," she told CPJ in an interview detailing her
harrowing confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison.

Two new CPJ features detail how the services of private companies in
the U.S. and U.K. are being used by unknown malicious actors to try to
suppress online reporting from Somalia, Kosovo, Turkmenistan, Nigeria,
Kyrgyzstan, and the Philippines. Qurium technical director Tord
Lundström told CPJ that his group was able to map out distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, when internet traffic is
deliberately directed at a website in order to knock it offline, but
could not confirm the identities of the malicious actors: "

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That's the power of DDoS. It never comes with a
signature."

CPJ welcomed exiled Russian journalist Galina Timchenko, head of the
independent Russian news website Meduza, to the Knight Foundation
Press Freedom Center in New York following news that her phone was
infected by Pegasus surveillance spyware. In a video interview with
CPJ, Timchenko described the hack saying, "

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I felt like I was dirty or stripped in the street... But then I
quickly realized that it was not my fault... On the contrary, it
is my responsibility to ensure that, if possible, it doesn't ever
happen to anyone else."

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"Let journalists do their job in Gabon, says Committee to
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," News24

 

"U.S. ambassador again visits detained WSJ reporter Evan
Gershkovich in Russia

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," Axios

 

"2 French journalists expelled from Morocco as tensions revive
between Rabat and Paris

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," The Associated Press

 

"How a small-town feud in Kansas sent a shock through American
journalism

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," The Washington Post

 

"Prigozhin is latest in line of Putin critics who met an early
death

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," CNN

 

"The Right to Protest Is Under Assault. Frontline Activists Show
How to Fight Back

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," Just Security

 

"Turkey's Erdogan says he trusts Russia 'just as
much as I trust the West,

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'" PBS NewsHour

 

"Mexican journalist in US wins asylum appeal, media group says

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," Reuters

 


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