This week: Tibetan writer Tsering Woser talks about her detention, the censorship protest in China comes to a close, and the future of music in Mali.
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In this interview with journalist Frank Smyth, he explains why a new journalist security guide was necessary, the specific challenges that make journalist security unique, and how rampant impunity for violence against journalists can devastate free press.
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Bangladeshi and international media organizations protest for justice in the case of slain journalists Meherun Runi and Sagar Sarowar, and for safety of journalists in Bangladesh. Runi and Sarowar were working to expose illegal land-grabbing by a corporation at the time of the murders.
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The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. We speak to Mohamed Abdel Dayem of CPJ and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.
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On September 1st two female journalists connected to the political magazine, Contralinea, were found murdered in a Mexico City park. According to Reporters Without Borders, eighty journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.
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The arrest of Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in March this year has put press freedom in Turkey under the international spotlight. CPJ’s Robert Mahoney sent written questions to the reporters in their Istanbul jail. Read their replies.
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Yolanda Ordaz is the third journalist to be killed this year in the Mexican state of Veracruz and is among more than 70 killed since 2000, according to press rights groups and media tallies.
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