2005-2014

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is dismayed by the failure of the Egyptian authorities to shed light on the disappearance of a prominent journalist, five years ago, in one of the most secure districts in Cairo. Reda Helal, a senior editor at Egypt's leading state-owned daily Al-Ahram, mysteriously vanished on August 11, 2003, on his way home from work in a heavily guarded area in the

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Iranian authorities to make public any charges against a Kurdish journalist and human rights activist who they have held for more than two weeks, or release him immediately. On July 27, security forces arrested Saman Rasoulpour, 23, a Kurdish journalist and a member of the Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights in Kurdistan, in his...

A veteran reporter with the Tel Aviv-based Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth was severely injured on Tuesday in an attack in the central Georgian city of Gori. It was the same attack that killed Dutch cameraman Stan Storimans and injured his RTL Nieuws colleague Jeroen Akkermans. Zadok Yehezkeli suffered injuries to the stomach, leg, chest, and shoulder, and underwent two operations in a...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has urged the FBI to release more information about the procedures they used in 2004 to obtain reporters' telephone records while they were stationed at the New York Times and the Washington Post bureaus in Indonesia. Paris-based RSF welcomed Thursday the apology the FBI made to the newspapers' editors for improperly using the so-called "exigent letters" to obtain...

The Israeli government should carry out an independent investigation into the killing of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. New York-based CPJ also called on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to work with journalists and media groups to ensure that journalists operating in the Gaza Strip are able to do their jobs safely. An Israeli military investigation...

The results of an Israeli Army investigation, clearing a tank crew of any wrong-doing in the killing of Reuters' cameraman Fadel Shana in April in the Gaza Strip, could endanger all media professionals working in the Palestinian Territories, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has said. "This inquiry, which has been farcical in its nature, is likely to make life even more dangerous...

Stan Storimans, a cameraman with Netherlands-based television channel RTL Nieuws, was killed Tuesday during bombing in the central Georgian city of Gori. His colleague, reporter Jeroen Akkermans, suffered shrapnel wounds to his leg and was hospitalised in a Tbilisi clinic, Jaspir Teijsse, a spokesman for RTL Nieuws, told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Storimans was 39...

The Israeli military has decided to detain Ibrahim Hamad, a soundman employed by the Palestinian news agency Ramattan, for six months without bringing charges and without taking him before any court, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Israeli soldiers arrested him at his home in Qalandiyah, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 15. "The Israeli military may not under any...

The US government's attempts to flout news-gathering privilege hit another road-block on August 11 when a court denied its request to block an amicus curiae brief signed by numerous news organisations in support of CBS in its effort to quash a government subpoena. The case concerns an interview with US Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich by Scott Pelley, aired on March 18, 2007 on "60 Minutes". Wuterich...

The Committee to Protect Journalists' website, www.cpj.org, is blocked in the Main Press Centre and at least one other Olympic press venue, according to a number of foreign journalists there. CPJ is calling on the Chinese authorities to provide the free Internet access they promised foreign reporters when they were awarded the Games. “We call on China and the International Olympic Committee to...