Committee to Protect Journalists (New York)
Website: http://www.cpj.org/
June 20
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Eritrea: For Exiled Eritreans in Sudan, Fear Greater Than Most [press release]
With the launch of CPJ's most recent exile report, I will have worked exactly three years for our Journalist Assistance program.More than 500 cases later, I have helped journalists... Read more »
January 26
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Ethiopia: Judge Confirms Charges Against Dissident Blogger [press release]
Jailed Ethiopian dissident blogger Eskinder Nega will stand trial in March for all of the terrorism accusations initially advanced by prosecutors, a federal high court judge ruled... Read more »
December 3, 2011
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Eritrea: Solomon Abera, Who Voiced End of Eritrean Free Press, Dies [press release]
The name Solomon Abera will forever be etched in the collective memory of Eritrea's press corps. On September 18, 2001, as the world focused its attention on the terrorist attacks... Read more »
October 18, 2011
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Ethiopia: Swedish Support for Jailed Colleagues in North Africa [press release]
If you pass by Kronoberg Prison in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, you will see journalists chained to its gates. They have committed no crime. For over a week, journalists have taken... Read more »
September 28, 2011
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Eritrea: Journalists Face Threats in Covering Dawit Isaac's Imprisonment [press release]
A Sweden-based journalist was publicly threatened Friday in connection with her reporting on the case of Dawit Isaac, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has been imprisoned in... Read more »
September 27, 2011
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Eritrea: Journalists Face Threats in Covering Isaac Imprisonment [press release]
A Sweden-based journalist was publicly threatened Friday in connection with her reporting on the case of Dawit Isaac, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has been imprisoned in... Read more »
September 24, 2011
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Eritrea: Let's Lift the Shroud of 10 Years of Misery [press release]
Since Zaid Tewelde's husband, an Eritrean freedom fighter turned playwright and journalist, was arrested in September 2001, she has spent each passing day coping with the burning... Read more »
September 18, 2011
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Eritrea: When Govt Shut Down the Independent Press [opinion]
It was September 18, 2001. As usual, I had to do my shift as a news reader on Eritrea's national government-controlled state radio Dimtsi Hafash. It was just minutes before 6:30... Read more »
September 16, 2011
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Eritrea: European Parliament Calls for Release of Journalists
Eritrea was on the hot seat Thursday in Strasbourg and Brussels. Ten years after a massive crackdown on dissent in Asmara that included the arrests of 11 independent journalists,... Read more »
August 4, 2011
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Eritrea: Habeas Corpus Writ Seeks Dawit Isaac, Jailed for 3,600 Days [press release]
Journalist Dawit Isaac, co-founder of Eritrea's now-defunct leading newspaper Setit, has spent nearly 10 years in one of the reclusive Red Sea nation's secret prisons with no... Read more »
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