Blogger Nay Phone Latt provided vital information to the outside world during Burma’s Saffron Revolution. This earned him a twenty-year jail sentence and a charge of “creating public alarm.”
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A blank page in Pakistan’s International Herald Tribune leads columnist Bina Shah on a quest to discover what was censored and why.
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This week: free speech at U.S. universities, Internet regulations to be discussed at the ITU, and Iranian writers call for an end to book censorship.
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Journalists worldwide are targeted or murdered for their work, but the offenders are rarely punished. CPJ is launching an impunity campaign to demand justice.
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This week: Bahraini activist Zanib Alkhawaja profiled, Julian Assange speaks to Democracy Now!, and impacts of government censorship on literary expression.
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The International Press Freedom Awards is “an annual recognition of courageous journalism” hosted by the CPJ. Today there are a record 179 journalists in prison.
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This week: the CCP blocks news sites for the 18th Party Congress, Tibetan self-immolations continue in China, and an interview with poet/ activist Amiri Baraka.
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