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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 Öğret 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, “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. “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 Kušnírová, who were both killed five years ago. “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.”
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CPJ in the news
“‘Like going to the war front’: Nigerian journalists offer tips for covering 2023 elections,” Daily Trust
“NPR asks Iran's foreign minister about anti-government protests and global relations,” NPR
“Deadly start to year in Africa with threats, killings of critics,” VOA
“Cameroonian businessman arrested after journalist's murder,” Reuters
“Why Maharashtra journalist’s murder reflects poorly on status of press freedom in India,” Newslaundry
“Indian tax agents raid BBC offices in wake of Modi documentary,” Al-Jazeera
“Story Killers: Insider the deadly disinformation-for-hire industry,” Forbidden Stories
“An environmental activist found dead in the municipality of Tula, Hidalgo,” El País
“Media covering devastating quake in Turkey report restrictions,” VOA
“These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them targets,” The Washington Post
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