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 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. “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: “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, "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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