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CPJ Internet Channel: Can selective blocking pre-empt wider censorship?

Last week, Twitter provoked a fierce debate online when it announced a new capability–and related policy–to hide tweets on a country-specific basis. By building this feature into its website’s basic code, Twitter said it hoped to offer a more tailored response to legal demands to remove tweets globally. The company will inform users if any tweet they see has been obscured, and provide a record of all demands to remove content with the U.S.-based site chillingeffects.org

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Gunmen kill Pakistani journalist who reported on Taliban

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New York, January 17, 2012--Unidentified gunmen killed broadcast journalist Mukarram Khan Aatif in a mosque north of Peshawar today, according to

Under pressure at home, Chinese writer chooses exile

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New York, January 13, 2012--The decision of prominent Chinese writer Yu Jie to seek exile in the United States this week is

In Russia, unknown attacker stabs exiled Tajik journalist – CPJ

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New York, January 13, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Thursday's attack in Moscow on Dododzhon Atovulloyev, exiled publisher and editor-in-chief

Blog: What US can’t accept in Belarus, it supports in Uzbekistan – CPJ

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Last week, President Obama signed into law a bill that expands sanctions against Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko continues to

Chinese writer-dissident given nine years for online posts – CPJ

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New York, December 23, 2011 --- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns China's harsh sentencing of online journalist and activist Chen

Blog: In China, real people vs. Internet minders – CPJ

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In the next three months, users of China's microblog weibo.com --- "weibo" is the generic Chinese term for Twitter-like platforms

Killing of Chernovik founder in Dagestan must be investigated – CPJ

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New York, December 15, 2011--Today's murder of Gadzhimurad Kamalov, founder of the independent newspaper Chernovik in the southern Russian republic of

Blog: Impunity still reigns in beating of Oleg Kashin

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Oleg Kashin, a correspondent for the Russian business daily Kommersant, by his home on a central Moscow street, a 10-minute

Tibetan writers imprisoned in China — CPJ

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New York, October 31, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the imprisonment of two Tibetan writers, one of whom was sentenced

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Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia — Voice of America journalists already penalized — BBG Watch

BBG Watch -- As the trial of two Swedish journalists gets underway in Ethiopia, it is worth remembering that a Voice of America journalist David Arnold was dismissed

Blog: Swedish support for jailed colleagues in Ethiopia, Eritrea — CPJ

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If you pass by Kronoberg Prison in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, you will see journalists chained to its gates. They have

Blog: A personal side to Anna Politkovskaya’s legacy — CPJ

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Internationally renowned for her work, respected for her courage and still mourned by thousands around the world five years after

Justice still pending in Politkovskaya murder case — CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - New York, October 7, 2011--Five years after the brutal assassination of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Committee to Protect

Reporter gets five years in Turkmenistan — CPJ

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New York, October 5, 2011 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the sentencing today of Dovletmurad Yazguliyev, a local correspondent

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