CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
“We were invited to Qatar by the prime minister’s office to see new flagship accommodation for low-paid migrant workers in early May - but while gathering additional material for our report, we ended up being thrown into prison for doing our jobs.”
– Arrested for reporting on Qatar’s World Cup labourers - BBC News (via onaissues)
![BBC’s Rwanda documentary leads to illogical, illegal suspension
“So us journalists are very much outraged given [the documentary’s] complete lack of balance,” Gonzaga Muganwa, from the privately owned news magazine Rwanda Dispatch, told me. “However,...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d6ded4ab514b0e1929f320f2ac21ba17/tumblr_ne6cwxxEZu1tvzhtyo1_640.jpg)
“So us journalists are very much outraged given [the documentary’s] complete lack of balance,” Gonzaga Muganwa, from the privately owned news magazine Rwanda Dispatch, told me. “However, this doesn’t mean the suspension of the BBC is right either.”
The main bone of contention raised by locals and foreigners alike was the documentary’s exclusive focus on the research of two American academics that claim far more Hutus died in the genocide than Tutsis.
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Some of the bodies - of health workers, local officials and journalists - were found in a septic tank in a village school near the city of Nzerekore.
CPJ is currently investigating reports that three journalists were killed in the event.
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Syria is the deadliest place for journalists in so far in 2014. The BBC looks at research by the committeetoprotectjournalists about who has bore the brunt of the deadly violence and who is still missing.
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 24: BBC staff and colleagues from other news organisations take part in a one-minute silent protest outside New Broadcasting House against the seven-year jail terms given to three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt on June 24, 2014 in London, England. A court in Cairo found al-Jazeera’s Cairo bureau chief, Mohamed Fahmy, who is Canadian-Egyptian, Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed and Australian correspondent Peter Greste guilty of spreading false news. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
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“We have gathered to protest at the increasing attacks on journalism around the world and the damage to free speech that can result from the rise in violence and intimidation against the media.”
Joint statement issued at the BBC’s Safety of Journalists Symposium