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'This isn't about the three of us...our case has become emblematic of the freedom of the Press worldwide'
- Peter Greste's message from jail for World Press Freedom Day

This is Peter Greste. He has been in prison in Cairo since December 29. Today he appeared in court for the seventh time and was again remanded in custody. He is accused, along with two Al Jazeera English colleagues, of distorting news reports to favour the Muslim Brotherhood, which supports the ousted President Morsi.  Two other Al Jazeera journalists have been imprisoned since August and one has been on hunger strike for nearly four months.
Greste has received more publicity in Britain than his colleagues  because of his work for CNN and the BBC. In Canada Mohamad Fahey has just been awarded the press freedom prize. He has given the C$2,000 prize money to the family of an Egyptian journalist killed at a protest last month. Read more about the Al-Jazeera case here

The video below shows Greste's  father reading the journalist's statement from Tora jail to mark World Press Freedom Day.

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The Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik was yesterday awarded the $25,000 World Press Freedom prize.  The citation says that he is an ardent defender of freedom of expression who  has devoted his career to denouncing corruption and human rights abuses. 
He was arrested and detained in March 2011 on charges of being linked to Ergenekon, an alleged terrorist organisation, and is still awaiting trial. If convicted he could face 15 years in jail.
He has been on bail since March 2012 and is continuing his work.


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Mohamed Fahmy has been awarded Canada's World Press Freedom prize in recognition of his battle for free speech since his arrest in December. He has donated the C$2,000 prize to the family of Mayada Ashraf, an Egyptian journalist who was shot dead at a protest last month.
Fahmy appeared in court in Cairo  with Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed today and was again remanded in custody.


The roll call, 2014


20 journalists and media assistants killed because of their work

January 9 Mohamed Abdul AlGhani Najjar, SNN, Syria
January 10 Santiago Ilídio Andrade, Bandeirantes, Brazil
January 17 Khalid Khan,  Express News, Pakistan
January 17 Ashraf Yusuf  Express News, Pakistan
January 17 Waqas Aziz  Express News, Pakistan
January 20  Firas Mohammed Attiyah Freelance reporter, Fallujah TV, Iraq
February 11 Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz,  Notisur, Liberal del Sur, Mexico
February 16  Germain Kennedy Mumbere Muliwavyo Radio Télévision Muungano d’Oïcha, DRC
February 19  Vyacheslav Veremyi,  Vesti, Ukraine
February 19 Yonni Steven Caicedo - TV Noticias, Colombia
February 20  Mouaz Muhi Eddin Al-Khaled - Media activist, Syria
February 20 Trad Muhamed Al-Zhuri - Media activist, Syria
March 9 Omar Abdelqader cameraman for Al-Mayadeen TV Channel, Syria 
March 9 Ali Mustafa  freelance journalist, Syria
March 11 Nils Horner Sveriges Radio, Afghanistan
March 28  Mayada Ashraf,  Al-Dostour/ Masr Al-Arabiya, Egypt
April 11 Carlos Mejía Orellana  Radio Progreso, Honduras
April 14  Anja Niedringhaus   AP, Afghanistan
April  14 Mohamed Mantash  Al-Manar TV, Syria
April 14  Hamza Hajj Hassan  Al-Manar TV, Syria
April 14  Halim Allaw,  Al-Manar TV, Syria
May 13 Camille Leparge, freelance photojournalist, Central African Republic

By country: 
Syria 8, Pakistan 3, Afghanistan 2, Brazil, Central African Republic, Colombia, DRC, Egypt, Iraq, Honduras, Mexico,  Ukraine 1

Source: Reporters Sans Frontières*
*Others have different figures, RSF lists only those proven to have died in the course of their work

...and some of their stories


Santiago Ilídio Andrade,
Santiago Ilídio Andrade, 49, Brazil

Hit in the head with a flare while covering protests over bus fare increases in Rio. After four days in a coma he was declared brain dead. His daughter Vanessa, a 29-year-old journalist, was with him when he died. She wrote:"I asked forgiveness for all my mistakes and promised to keep my head held high and take care of my mother and my grandparents."

Khalid Khan, Ashraf Yusuf, Waqas Aziz, Pakistan 

A driver, security guard and technician  were sitting with a camerman in an Express News van on a routine assignment in Nazimabad when four gunmen rode up on motorcycles and opened fire, killing the three and wounding the cameraman. Police found 17 pistol shell casings at the scene. The Taleban group TTP admitted responsibility.

Firas Mohammed Attiyah, 28, Iraq

Freelance reporter with Fallujah TV killed by a bomb aimed at police in Khaldiyah. Muayad Ibrahim, a freelance reporter for Al-Anbar TV, was wounded in the blast which also killed two policemen and wounded two others.

Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz
Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, Mexico

Crime reporter abducted from his home in Veracruz after dropping his children off at school on February 5. His body was found buried with two other people a week later. One of the other bodies was that of a union leader whose kidnapping Jiménez had been covering. Read more on his case here


Germain Kennedy Mumbere Muliwavyo, 28, Democratic Republic of Congo

Radio reporter was travelling with Congolese troops to Kamango village when Ugandan rebel fighters ambushed their car. Muliwavyo was shot in the head and stomach. Two other journalists also in the car were injured.

 Vyacheslav Veremyi,
 Vyacheslav Veremyi, 33, Ukraine

Reporter with the pro-government Vremya  newspaper was on his way home from work in Kiev when his taxi was hijacked at traffic lights half a mile from Independence Square during the riots. Veremyi, a colleague and the driver were pulled from the car and beaten up. 
The reporter died from a gunshot wound in his stomach.

Yonni Steven Caicedo, 21, Colombia

Television cameraman killed by two gunman in Buenaventura. He had received death threats after trying to film after a murder. He left the area on police advice but had recently returned.

Omar Abdelqader
Omar Abdelqader, 27, Syria

Lebanese cameraman shot in the neck on his birthday by a sniper while he was filming government forces advancing on an area in the 
rebel-held city of Deir al-Zor. He worked for the Beirut-based 
Al-Mayadeen station, which supports President Assad.

Ali Mustafa, 29, Syria

Canadian photojournalist killed by a barrel bomb dropped by a helicopter in Aleppo as he was gathering information on the damage caused by the bombs - barrels packed with explosives and scrap metal. Fourteen other people died and dozens were wounded in the attack. Interviewed last year about his decision to work in Syria he said: "I could not ignore this ongoing human tragedy. Syrian people feel abandoned by the world. They are asking for our solidarity."

Nils Horner
Nils Horner, 51, Afghanistan

Swedish radio reporter shot in the head by two men on foot as he got out of his car in the diplomatic area of Kabul. He had arrived in the city two days earlier. The Fidai Taleban splinter group said it had killed Horner because "he was not a journalist, he was a spy of MI6". 

Mayada Ashraf
Mayada Ashraf, 22, Egypt

Reporter shot while covering anti-coup protests. Egyptian media reported that she had been killed by protesters demonstrating in support of the deposed President Morsi, but bystanders say she was shot by a police snipers who killed three protesters at the same time.

Carlos Mejía Orellana, 35, Honduras

Radio presenter stabbed in the chest four times at his home in El Progreso. He was a human rights lawyer who worked for the Jesuit-backed  ERIC-RP station. He and colleagues had received numerous death threats for challenging the government since the 2009 presidential coup and international organisations had asked that he be given special protection.

Anja Niedringhaus
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, Afghanistan

German photojournalist shot by a policeman while waiting in a convoy delivering ballot papers for the presidential election. The officer was immediately detained. Niedringhaus was one of 11 AP photographers to share a 2005 Pulitzer prize for their coverage of the Iraq war.

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Hamza Al-Hajj Hassan, Halim Allaw, Mohamed Mantash, Syria

Reporter, technician and cameraman with the Lebanese Hezbollah  Al-Manah TV station killed covering clashes in Syria. They were declared martyrs and hundreds attended their funerals.

Camille Lepage
Camille Lepage, 26, Central African Republic

French photojournalist killed while travelling with the mostly Christian anti-balaka militias. She had been working in South Sudan since graduating from Southampton Solent University in 2012 but was in the Central African Republic for a new project.


Indonesia
Kabul
Malaysia

182 journalists and media staff in jail


Imprisoned this year:
  •  Wadji Al-Ghazzawi
  • Rauf Mirkadyrov
  • Sayed Ahmed Al-Mousawi
  • Abdullah Salman Al-Jerdabi
  •  Zaw Pe
  • Yarzar Oo 
  •  Paing Thet Kyaw 
  •  Sithu Soe 
  •  Lu Maw Naing 
  • Bheki Makhubu 

 Last year
  • Parviz Gashimli 
  •  Sardar Alibeili 
  •  Tofig Yagublu
  • Qassim Zain Al-Deen 
  • Hussein Hubail 
  • Chen Yongzhou 
  •  Liu Hu 
  • Peter Greste 
  •  Mohamed Adel Fahmy
  •  Baher Mohamed 
  •  Abdallah Al-Shami 
  •  Mahmoud Abu Zied 
  • Asfaw Berhanu
  •  Masoud Kourdpour 
  •  Khosro Kurdpour 
  •  Ayyad Al-Harbi 
  • Sergei Reznik
  • Jared Opiyo
  • Omar Al-Shaar
  •  Jihad Assad Mohamed 
  • Muhammad Zaib Mansoor
  •  Mohamed Ali Mahamado
  •  Omar Al-Shaar 
  • Jihad Assad Mohamed 
  • Abdurahman Rya
  •  Shiaz Khalil 
  • Hosam Nizam Al-Dine
  •  Aboud Al-Atik
  • Maydaneh Abdallah Okieh

 2012
  • Hamza Kashgari
  • Hilal Mammedov
  • Ahmed Humaidan
  • Barrett Brown
  • Said Madani 
  • John Mpayi 
  •  Fortunat Kasongo
  • Akram Raslan 
  •  Thabet Ahmed Al-Mhaisen 
  •  Mohamed Sami Al-Kayyal 
  •  Mohamed Omar Al-Khatib
  •  Nabil Shurbaji 
  • Hani Zitani
  •  Mazen Darwish
  • Hoang Khuong (Nguyen Van Khuong)
  • Mohamed Nihad Kurdiyya

 2011
  • Nestor Omar Pasquini
  •  Avaz Zeynalli 
  • Hassan Salman Ma’atooq 
  • José Antonio Torres
  • Nebiel Edris
  •  Ahmed Usman 
  •  Mohamed Osman
  •  Reyot Alemu
  •  Woubeshet Taye
  • Mehrdad Sarjou
  •  Alireza Behshti Shirazi 
  • Rahman Gahremanpour Benab 
  • Alireza Rajai 
  • Sudhir Dhawle
  • Patrick Palata
  • Hussein Issou 
  •  Amer Abdel Salam
  • Abdel Majid Rashed Al-Rahmoun 
  •  Adel Walid Kharsah
  •  Maher Dib
  • Moheeb Al-Nawaty 
  •  Somyos Prueksakasemsuk 
  •  Turabi Kisin -
  •  Ertus Bozkurt
  •  Nurettin Firat 
  •  Ramazan Pekgöz 
  • Yüksek Genç 
  •  Abdullah Cetin 
  • Cengiz Kapmaz 
  • Hasan Özgünes 
  • Tayip Temel
  • Aleksandr Tolmachev
  • Cigdem Aslan 
  •  Davut Uçar

 2010
  • Liao Yu
  • Eyob Kessete
  • Siamak Qaderi 
  • Abdolfazl Abedini Nasr
  • Agnès Uwimana
  • Vu Duc Trung
  • A.S.Mani 
  • Khayrullo Khamidov

2009
  • Stifanos (father name unknown)
  • Henok (father name unknown) 
  • Kunga Tseyang
  • Bereket Misghina 
  •  Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu 
  • Basilios Zemo 
  •  Meles Negusse Kiflu 
  •  Mohammed Said Mohammed 
  •  Biniam Ghirmay 
  • Esmail Abd-el-Kader 
  •  Araya Defoch
  •  Mohammed Dafla 
  •  Simon Elias 
  • Yemane Hagos
  • Girmay Abraham
  • Heshmatollah Tabarzadi 
  •  Mehdi Mahmudian
  •  Said Matinpour
  • -Masoud Bastani 
  •  Bahaman Ahamadi Amoee
  • Ahmad Zeydabadi
  • Kivan Samimi Behbani
  • Dilmurod Sayid 
  •  Bakhrom Ibragimov 
  • Davron Kabilov 
  •  Ravshanbek Vafoev
  • Botyrbek Eshkuziev

 2008
  •  Li Min 
  • Guan Jian 
  • Dhondup Wangchen
  •  Li Min
  •  Guan Jian 
  •  Dhondup Wangchen
  • Isaac Abraham
  • Mulubrhan Habtegebriel
  • Solidjon Abdurakhmanov 

 2007
  • Qi Chonghuai 
  •  Ma Shiping
  • Nega Woldegeorgis
  • Unidentified
  • Eyob Netserab
  • Saleh Idriss Gama
  •  Tesfalidet Kidane Tesfazghi
  • Subramaniam Ramachandran
  • Mohammad Sadegh Kabovand 
  • Adnan Hassanpour
  •  Ibrahim Abdella 
  • Unidentified

2006
  • Daniel Mussie
  • "Chief" Ebrima Manneh
  • Bayram Namaz
  •  Füsun Erdogan
  •  Kim Sing Chul

2005
  •  Korash Huseyin 
  •  Wu Zhengyou
  • Zhu Wanxiang 
  • Lu Jianhua
  • Tashi Gyaltsen 
  •  Lobsang Dhargay
  •  Thoe Samden
  • Tsultrim Phelgay 
  • Jampel Gyatso 

2004
  •  Nurmuhemmet Yasin 
  • Shiferraw Insermu
  • Malik Abdul Aziz

2003
  • Thao Moua
  •  Pa Phue Khang

2002
  • Zhang Wei
  • Zuo Shangwen 
  • Abdulghani Memetemin
  • Hamid Mohamed Said
  • Saleh Al Jezaeeri

2001
  •  Seyoum Tsehaye
  • Temesgen Gebreyesus
  • Emanuel Asrat 
  •  Dawit Isaac
  • Lu Wanbin
  •  Ma Linhai 
  • Thongpaseuth Keuakoun

2000
  •  Xu Zerong 
  • Yoeni de Jesús Guerra García

1999
  • Jusuf Ruzimuradov 
  •  Mohammed Bekjanov
  •  Li Jian 
  •  Zha Jianguo
  •  Fan Yingshang 

1996
  • Song Keum Chul

1995
  • Hada 

1983
  •  Lin youping 


Useful websites


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radio interview link


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Read SubScribe on Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed 
Plus Greste's prison blog
Plus Greste's award
Plus Storify of their last court appearance
(new one coming for today later)

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Why do they do it?

Warzone veterans talk about their work
at the Names Not Numbers festival's
 session on frontline reporting


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Richard Beeston

The former Times foreign editor was a master of the art of frontline reporting. He died of cancer shortly after his 50th birthday last year. Read about his life, his work and the tributes paid to him here


Journalists held hostage


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hostage home
Seven journalists - four Frenchmen and three Spaniards -  who had been held hostage in Syria for months have been released in the past few weeks, but many more are still in captivity around the world. 
At the end of last year Reporters without Borders calculated that 37 journalists had disappeared, been kidnapped or were being held hostage, including the seven recently released. 
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The missing include the American photographer James Foley, above, who disappeared in Syria in November 2012. It is thought that he may be being held with another American, Austin Tice, below, who went missing from his home in Damascus the previous August. 

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A week after Tice disappeared, the Jordanian reporter Bashar Fahmi Al-Kadumi also vanished and was thought to be being held by Assad government forces, along with a Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal. Unal was released at the end of the year. The other three are still missing.

Several of the journalists on the RSF list are believed to be dead. They include the Frenchman Fred Nérac who went missing in Iraq in 2003 and was declared dead in 2005.

Journalists missing, in jail or being held hostage by country

China 33, Eritrea 28, Iran 18, Syria 36, Turkey 13, Uzbekistan 9, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Ethiopia 6, Burma, Egypt, 5, Eritrea 4,  Laos,  Mexico 3; Saudi Arabia, Cuba, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, Kenya 2; Swaziland, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Rwanda,  Libya,  Kuwait,  Gambia,  Djibouti, Argentina, DRC, US 1.

Today in court

Tweets from the Al-Jazeera trial in Cairo

Mohamed Fahmy explaining to judge what the job of producer means #ajtrial pic.twitter.com/9uBrbqVJLQ

— Orla Guerin (@OrlaGuerin) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial: @Repent11 tells judge it's #WorldPressFreedom day. Judge says: "Happy #WorldPressFreedom day."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial: Recess now. Bold move from @Repent11. Told the judge that he can provide proof of his relationship w the intelligence services.

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

'I feel the court is starting to understand what we do for a living,' @Repent11 #AJTrial

— jesse rosenfeld (@jrosyfield) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial – @PeterGreste: "We've spent nearly 130 days in jail. It feels like a massive injustice regardless of the outcome."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

During #AJTrial recess @PeterGreste says their spirits are high but they haven't yet had any opportunity to present their side of the story.

— Alex Ortiz (@azortiz) May 3, 2014

Non-Journo defendants sing protest songs from prosecution cage. #AJtrial

— Leila Fadel (@LeilaFadel) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial: @Repent11 says they still only get 1 hour a day outside of cell. Max security get 2.

— Sharif Kouddous (@sharifkouddous) May 3, 2014

Judge has again refused bail. Trial adjourned to May 15th #ajtrial

— Orla Guerin (@OrlaGuerin) May 3, 2014

Yet again would like to thank @PatrickKingsley and @rpollard for their dedicated in court reports #ajtrial shame about the adjournment.

— A_Greste (@AlisterGreste) May 3, 2014

A very skinny hunger striking @abdallahelshamy enters court room to hear if his detention will be extended. Says he's lost 35 kg #AJTrial

— jesse rosenfeld (@jrosyfield) May 3, 2014

Prisoners shouting and chanting 'down with military rule' inside the court room. Journalist still barred @abdallahelshamy #ajtrial

— jesse rosenfeld (@jrosyfield) May 3, 2014

Fahmy is patiently explaining to #AJTrial judge how journalism can relay different opinions to an audience w/out taking a particular side.

— Alex Ortiz (@azortiz) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial – This seems pretty big. @Repent11 telling judge: "I have great relations with state security, with the army, & the intelligence."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial: Judge says: "Do you want to cover the elections?" @Repent11: "No I don't want to cover the elections." Laughter.

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

Not sure if Judge has sense of humour or taking the piss #ajtrial

— A_Greste (@AlisterGreste) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial – @PeterGreste: "We recognise the significance of the coincidence of this trial falling on #WorldPressFreedom Day."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial – @PeterGreste: "You can't have a free society without a free press. In Egypt today you know that you can't provide balance as..."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

#Ajtrial – @PeterGreste cont: "... long as you can end up in prison like us."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

During the recess @repent11says his 40 birthday behind bars has made him think about what will happen in the days ahead #AJTrial

— jesse rosenfeld (@jrosyfield) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial – Sidenote: judge told @Repent11 that to expedite case, his lawyers shd get on w it. But @Repent11's lead lawyer not here today.

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial – Adjourned till 15 May. No bail. @Repent11's lawyer fined 50 pounds for not attending due to an emergency.

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

#AJtrial — @abdallahelshamy: "Prison is like living in a pithole."

— Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) May 3, 2014

As journalists are kicked out of the court room qnd barred from taking photos @abdallahelshamy says he demands to see his lawyer #AJTrial

— jesse rosenfeld (@jrosyfield) May 3, 2014

Journalists told we are not getting back into the court room #ajtrial

— jesse rosenfeld (@jrosyfield) May 3, 2014

On behalf of the Greste family i would like to thank the world community for the ongoing support and encouragement. It means a lot #ajtrial

— A_Greste (@AlisterGreste) May 3, 2014

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Tawakul Karman in Sana'a
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