China: Expulsion of US journalists further stifles access to information amid COVID-19 crisis
The Chinese government today demanded US journalists working at the New York Times, the Wall Street ...Read More
2020-03-18
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State Broadcaster-Turned-Citizen Journalist Incommunicado in Virus-Hit Wuhan
A former news anchor with China's state broadcaster CCTV who quit his job to report from the front l...Read More
2020-02-29
China Detains, Harasses Journalist, Academics Over Reports, Comments on Coronavirus
Chinese citizen journalist and lawyer Chen Qiushi is incommunicado, believed detained, after reporti...Read More
2020-02-11
China Jails Student For Tweets Sent in US Showing President as Winnie The Pooh
A student who tweeted a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh in connection with President Xi Jinping while stu...Read More
2020-01-24
Police in China’s Guangdong Release Journalist Turned #MeToo Activist on ‘Bail’
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have release women's rights activist and i...Read More
2020-01-18
20 Bitter Winter Reporters Vanished in the Air
Writing for Bitter Winter is a crime in China. 45 of our reporters were arrested. 20 are still in cu...Read More
2019-12-13
UN human rights expert alarmed at rise in Cambodia arrests
A UN human rights expert is calling on the Cambodian Government to respect its citizens’ rights of f...Read More
2019-11-09
UN, Activists Call for More Protection for Journalists
GENEVA – The United Nations and human rights defenders are calling for greater protections for...Read More
2019-11-03
VOA Reporters Freed After Hours-long Detention by Chinese Authorities
Chinese authorities detained a Voice of America Mandarin Service correspondent and a multimedia jour...Read More
2018-08-14
Chinese Ministry of State Security Takes Over the Campaign Against Bitter Winter
Since the arrests of reporters did not stop Bitter Winter, China escalates the campaign against our ...Read More
2018-08-04
Arrested for Sending Reports to Bitter Winter
On August 1, Bitter Winter, a publication of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, report...Read More
2018-08-02
Wife of Critical Chinese-American Journalist Disappears in China
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the disappearance of the wife of a critical ...Read More
2018-01-29