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CPJ honors courageous journalists at 2022 awards ceremony
On Thursday, November 17, CPJ honored courageous journalists from Cuba, Iraqi Kurdistan, Ukraine, and Vietnam at its 32nd annual International Press Freedom Awards ceremony. CPJ also honored Russian editor Galina Timchenko with the 2022 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Learn more »
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CPJ published its 2022 Global Impunity Index, highlighting where the vast majority of killers of journalists continue to get away with murder. Somalia remains the worst offender on the index for the eighth straight year. Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, respectively, round out the top five countries on the index. As Nobel Prize laureate and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov said in September, “In Russia, the genocide of media has come to its conclusion. Russian citizens are left alone in the face of government propaganda.”
CPJ has called on Pike County, Ohio, authorities to drop all charges against journalist Derek Myers and return equipment seized from Myers and his newsroom, Scioto Valley Guardian. While newsgathering and journalistic source material are protected by Ohio’s shield law and the federal Privacy Protection Act, Pike County sheriff’s officials confiscated equipment and charged Myers with wiretapping. “The incompetency of local law enforcement to abide by basic legal proceedings would be comical if it were not so concerning,” said CPJ U.S. and Canada Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen.
In a recent letter, CPJ joined more than 60 civil society organizations to call for Egyptian authorities to immediately release British-Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdelfattah amid an escalated hunger and water strike Abdelfattah waged coinciding with the beginning of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. “I’ve taken a decision to escalate at a time I see as fitting for my struggle for my freedom,” Abdelfattah wrote, “and the freedom of prisoners of a conflict they’ve no part in.”
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