Ann Cooper
Ann Cooper
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It would be very unfortunate if recent national gains in free expression were undermined by the local prosecutor. We urge all authorities to stop this harassment of the press.
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We welcome this important court decision. The government should withdraw these spurious charges against all of the former Daily News journalists, repeal AIPPA and allow the Daily News to reopen.
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We're disturbed to see the number of jailed journalists rise, and we're particularly troubled that the list of worst abusers now includes Ethiopia and the United States.
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CPJ is alarmed by the authorities' latest attempt to intimidate EFJA leaders. This is an intolerable assault on a press freedom organization whose right to operate has been upheld twice by the federal court.
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CPJ is alarmed by the authorities' latest attempt to intimidate EFJA leaders, ... This is an intolerable assault on a press freedom organization whose right to operate has been upheld twice by the federal court.
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Each country on this list uses at least nine of the 17 benchmarks.
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The government's heavy-handed attempt to intimidate the independent press and suppress news of the protests and deaths in Addis Ababa is unacceptable. We call on the Ethiopian authorities to release our colleagues immediately and allow the media to report freely.
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Turkey is on the way to removing curbs on the media as it seeks to join the European Union, but cases like this undermine that progress. We urge the court to dismiss all charges against these five journalists when it reconvenes in April.
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Turkey has made important progress in reforming restrictive media laws as it seeks to join the European Union, and the court should not allow hard-liners to take the country backward. We urge the court to dismiss all charges against these journalists.
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There's no due process and it's setting a terrible example in a country where the United States' goal supposedly is to establish democracy.
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These actions call into question Kenya's commitment to press freedom.
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This is simply unacceptable, ... Through these detentions the US military gives every impression that it is not accountable. That's a bad example to give the citizens of an emerging democracy.
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This is simply unacceptable, ... Through these detentions the U.S. military gives every impression that it is not accountable. That's a bad example to give the citizens of an emerging democracy.
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As far as we know the military has conducted full investigations into only a handful of incidents and made public its reports on just two of them,