Why extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US would be cataclysmic for...
The Australian founder of the website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been fighting extradition to the U.S. from the U.K. since 2019 on charges that could strike a blow to press freedom globally. Here...
View ArticleCPJ, media leaders demand UK police act on online abuse of women journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists and more than 100 journalists and media leaders sent an open letter to senior British police officers and lawmakers on Friday, International Women’s Day, calling...
View ArticleCPJ welcomes UK High Court’s delay on Assange extradition, calls on US to...
Washington, D.C., March 26, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the British High Court’s Tuesday ruling, which could allow Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to contest his extradition to...
View ArticleCPJ, partners urge the US DOJ to drop charges against Assange
The Committee to Protect Journalists led a coalition of civil society organizations urging the United States Department of Justice to drop charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is...
View ArticleCPJ welcomes UK High Court decision to hear Julian Assange appeal
Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.K. High Court’s Monday decision to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition case. “We are...
View ArticleCPJ, others urge UK to repeal harsh media law passed after phone hacking scandal
The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other organizations representing news media titles, journalists, and campaign groups, urged U.K. authorities on Tuesday to urgently repeal Section 40 of...
View ArticleCPJ welcomes reports that Assange will be released in plea deal
New York, June 24, 2024— The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States Justice Department....
View ArticleCPJ, 44 groups urge UK judge to quit after upholding Jimmy Lai’s conviction
British judge David Neuberger, who was part of a Hong Kong court panel that denied an appeal from media publisher Jimmy Lai and six pro-democracy campaigners, should “do the right thing and...
View ArticleCPJ, partners call for transparency as exiled Syrian journalist applies for...
CPJ joined three other international press freedom and human rights organizations in an October 18 letter to U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper expressing concerns over delays in the citizen...
View ArticleBritish police seize electronic devices in raid on journalist Asa...
New York, October 29, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on British authorities to cease using counter-terrorism laws to intimidate the press after police raided the London home of...
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