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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. "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-- 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 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.
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CPJ in the news
“'People’s Tribunal' seeks justice over journalist killings,” The Associated Press
"Iran targets journalists covering country’s sprawling unrest," Bloomberg
“Pakistan's foreign minister talks about the country's flood damage," NPR
"In journalism world, killing of RJ reporter viewed as ‘an exceptional case'," The Las Vegas Review-Journal
"Journalist's ‘treason’ case raises new concerns over Russian dissent crackdown," Axios
"Egypt charges Mada Masr editor, journalists with spreading false news," Arab News
"Press freedom under threat again for whistleblowers," Independent Australia
"Egypt frees Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed al-Najdi," Al-Jazeera
"Crackdown on activists and protests persist in Indonesia while draft criminal code revisions could further curtail dissent," Civicus
"Mexico wants the U.S. to hand over El Chapo’s godson for killing of legendary journalist," VICE
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