All Stories: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

UNITED NATIONS: A request by the Committee to Protect Journalists to be recognized as a non-governmental organization at the United Nations was rejected Thursday after 10 countries opposed it, including Russia and China.

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the grenade attack on the Islamabad office of Pakistani broadcaster ARY News, read a press statement.

MANILA: A Philippine radio reporter has been shot dead, police and colleagues said Monday, in the latest attack in a country known for dozens of unsolved killings of journalists.

NEW YORK: On June 20, the burned body of a journalist was found in the Indian state of Maharashtra, a day after he had been kidnapped, according to media reports. The murder of Sandeep Kothari comes as the second such one of a journalist in India in less than two weeks.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a list of ten most censored countries in the world. Whilst Eritrea is placed at the very top of the list followed closely at no.2 by North Korea, terrorism-plagued Pakistan has not made the list.

ISLAMABAD: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded the Afghan Government to release the arrested Pakistani journalist, Faizullah Khan - ARY News reports.