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An arrest warrant has been issued for journalist Amy Goodman, who filmed Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
Journalist Amy Goodman recently filmed the Dakota Access Pipeline company turning dogs on protesters; now, there’s a warrant out for her arrest in Morton County, North Dakota.
“This is an unacceptable violation of freedom of the press,” Goodman said in a statement, according to Democracy Now!, the publication for which she works. “I was doing my job by covering pipeline guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters.” Goodman is being charged with one offense.
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Come see imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist, Shawkan’s work. In partnership with the Bronx Documentary Center, we are showcasing the work of Shawkan in order to advocate for his swift release, and to highlight the plight of journalists and journalism in #Egypt today. Free and open to the public until September 11.
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At around 2 a.m. yesterday, excrement and homemade explosives were thrown at the Caracas offices of the Venezuelan daily El Nacional. The attack comes less than a week after a separate incident in which unidentified assailants shot at the façade of Diario de los Andes, based in Valera, in the northwestern state of Trujillo.
In another incident in June, bags of animal excrement were thrown at the offices ofCorreo del Caroní, a daily newspaper in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz. Security footage showed five men vandalizing the offices, according to local media reports.
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Dangerous Pursuit: Jagendra Singh and Journalist Murders in India from Committee to Protect Journalists on Vimeo.
In pictures: the 5 months (and counting) press freedom crackdown in Turkey.
I frequently encounter Eritreans living safely in the West, with political asylum, who feel they can’t even “like” social-media posts that are critical of the regime back home. Instead they prefer privately writing or calling the individual whose post they wanted to react to. They fear the regime is tapping everyone’s social media account.
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Last year CPJ research showed #Brazil was the most deadly country in the Americas for journalists and, while the factors that led to the killings–usually in rural areas–are unlikely to come into play in Rio, the media should still take security precautions.
Brazil will be on security lock down, not just for protests but for potential terrorist attacks and other threats. About 85,000 security personnel from several different forces will be on hand, as well as security representatives from more than 100 competing countries.
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Evan Mawarire posted a video on Facebook after he struggled to raise the school fees for his children, he held the Zimbabwean flag and felt let down by his country and the government. The promise that this flag stood for and the reality on the ground could not be reconciled. His video resonated with many Zimbabweans who adopted the flag as a symbol of protest flooding social media with images of the Zimbabwean flag. The video inspired many Zimbabweans and has quickly grown to become Zimbabwe’s biggest form of protest in over a decade.
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Except for blacklisted nations like Syria and North Korea, there is little to stop governments that routinely violate basic rights from obtaining the same so-called “lawful intercept” tools that have been sold to Western police and spy agencies. People tracked by the technology have been beaten, jailed and tortured, according to human rights groups.
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