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CPJ Insider: March 2023 edition
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Freelance Ukrainian journalist Kristina Berdynskykh reports from the
Kharkiv region in June 2022. (Oleksandr Medvedev)
Covering the Russia-Ukraine war one year on: A Q&A with Europe and
Central Asia Researcher Anna Brakha
In the year since it started, Russia's brutal, full-scale
invasion of Ukraine has taken a painful toll on the press. At least 13
journalists have been killed covering the war and CPJ is investigating
whether the deaths of two others were related to their journalism. For
this edition of Insider, we spoke with CPJ Europe and Central Asia
Researcher Anna Brakha about the war. Learn more »
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Nicaragua releases and deports 7 journalists and media workers
After Nicaragua recently released and deported 222 political prisoners
to the U.S., CPJ Central America Correspondent Dánae
Vílchez, herself an exiled Nicaraguan journalist, traveled to
Virginia to greet the seven journalists and media workers who were
among them. Learn more »
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Must-reads
CPJ Turkey Representative Özgür Ö?ret spoke with
Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent in a recent Q&A about the
six and a half years the journalist spent behind bars as a convicted
terrorist for what the court said was "exaggerated and
disturbing news stories." When asked whether the newly released
journalist would return to working in journalism, he responded,
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There is no option to not practice journalism. Our profession is our
pride; we will not drop the pen because we paid a little penance for
it."
CPJ Consultant Technology Editor Madeline Earp speaks with CPJ Senior
Researcher Yeganeh Rezaian and other journalists and experts in a
feature exploring the seizure of detained journalists' devices
in Iran. Of the 95 journalists arrested there since protests erupted
last September, more than half have had their devices seized. "
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My only worry," Rezaian said of her own arrest in 2014,
"was that I didn't want any of my friends and family [to]
get in trouble...I kept whispering to myself, 'I wish I
never saved any phone numbers.'"
CPJ joined a press freedom delegation on a mission to Slovakia and, in
a joint letter to authorities, called for full justice in the murders
of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina
Kunírová, who were both killed five years ago.
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The end of impunity must become a reality," the letter demands,
"and the new political cycle must be turned by political parties
into an opportunity to strengthen press freedom."
CPJ in the news
"'Like going to the war front': Nigerian journalists
offer tips for covering 2023 elections," Daily Trust
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"NPR asks Iran's foreign minister about anti-government protests
and global relations," NPR
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"Deadly start to year in Africa with threats, killings of
critics," VOA
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"Cameroonian businessman arrested after journalist's
murder," Reuters
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"Why Maharashtra journalist's murder reflects poorly on
status of press freedom in India," Newslaundry
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"Indian tax agents raid BBC offices in wake of Modi
documentary," Al-Jazeera
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"Story Killers: Insider the deadly disinformation-for-hire
industry," Forbidden Stories
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"An environmental activist found dead in the municipality of
Tula, Hidalgo," El País
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"Media covering devastating quake in Turkey report
restrictions," VOA
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"These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them
targets," The Washington Post
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