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CPJ Insider: October 2022 edition

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Demonstrators light fires during a Tehran protest over the death of
Mahsa Amini while she was in the custody of the country's morality
police. (West Asia News Agency via Reuters)

Mass protests and arrests in Iran: a Q&A with Yeganeh Rezaian,
CPJ's Senior Researcher

When mass protests erupted in Iran more than two weeks ago, the
government cracked down hard. As clashes between security forces and
demonstrators left many dead and disruptions to internet service made
information hard to obtain, CPJ learned that security forces had
arrested at least 28 journalists as of September 29. Learn more
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CPJ holds a discussion with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her lawyer
Amal Clooney

CPJ recently welcomed to our New York offices, at the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation Press Freedom Center, Nobel laureate and
persecuted journalist Maria Ressa, alongside barrister Amal Clooney,
who co-leads the international legal counsel team defending
Ressa. Learn more »
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CPJ participates in UNGA week

This month, the U.N. General Assembly week in New York served to
gather legal experts, diplomats, and activists. CPJ used the
opportunity to discuss the plight of journalists forced to flee their
homes and the responsibility of governments to provide safe refuge
through special emergency visas. Learn more »
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Must-reads

CPJ spoke with press freedom groups in Spain about concerns that
promises of government reforms to a "gag law," which has been a tool
for "camouflaged censorship" of the press, would not be met. "

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Freedom of the press is a fundamental right that can only be limited
on an exceptional basis," one press freedom group told CPJ,
"These clauses have been used to disproportionately and arbitrarily
prevent journalists from informing the public."

CPJ is looking into why the Indian government is imposing travel
bans on Kashmiri journalists-- 

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and whether there might be a legal path to challenging the bans in
court after Indian journalist Rana Ayyub successfully challenged a ban
to travel to London in March. The bans increase self-censorship
and cause psychological trauma. Raqib Hameed Naik, a Kashmiri
journalist, living in exile in the United States, called the bans
"inhumane, and a constant reminder that Kashmiri journalists
live in an open-air prison." 

Four years have passed since Washington Post columnist and Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered

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 at the direction of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman. CPJ continues to demand accountability in the
journalist's murder. "The U.S. response to Khashoggi's
death will always stain the record of President Joe Biden's
professed support for press freedom and human rights worldwide," said
CPJ's Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif
Mansour. 

CPJ in the news

"'People's Tribunal' seeks justice over journalist
killings

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," The Associated Press

"Iran targets journalists covering country's sprawling unrest

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," Bloomberg 

"Pakistan's foreign minister talks about the country's flood
damage
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," NPR

"In journalism world, killing of RJ reporter viewed as 'an
exceptional case'

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," The Las Vegas Review-Journal

"Journalist's 'treason' case raises new concerns over
Russian dissent crackdown

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," Axios

"Egypt charges Mada Masr editor, journalists with spreading false news
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," Arab News

"Press freedom under threat again for whistleblowers

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," Independent Australia

"Egypt frees Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed al-Najdi

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," Al-Jazeera

"Crackdown on activists and protests persist in Indonesia while draft
criminal code revisions could further curtail dissent

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," Civicus 

"Mexico wants the U.S. to hand over El Chapo's godson for
killing of legendary journalist

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," VICE 



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