Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

“In one telling sign of the climate of fear that prevails in Tajikistan, only two among the more than a dozen journalists, press freedom advocates, and experts that CPJ met with were willing to speak on the record.”

CPJ was unable to determine where Abbasi was being held or if he had been formally charged.

The arrest and detention of freelance journalist Thomo Nkgadima was an intimidatory tactic aimed at deterring him from reporting on a matter of public interest.

Furkan Karabay was jailed pending trial on the suspicion of “making targets of those who were tasked to combat terrorism” and defamation.

CPJ calls for international investigation and accountability for the attack.

Suspension of broadcasting stations by Guinean authorities is reflective of growing intolerance of divergent viewpoints.

“The latest raid underscores the deteriorating press freedom in South Korea,” said Beh Lih Yi, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator.

“The series of attacks on journalists in Guerrero and Michoacán are shocking, even in a country accustomed to violence against the press, and underscore the Mexican government’s failure to adequately protect the press” – CPJ.