Attacks on the Press in 2008: United States - Committee to Protect Journalists

U.S. government actions against journalists abroad continued to sully the nation’s image. Authorities finally freed two long-detained journalists, one in Iraq and the other at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, without ever charging them with a crime or producing any evidence to support the imprisonments. But the military continued its alarming practice of holding journalists in open-ended detention without due process. At least one journalist was being held without ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun 6, 2009 - 2:05 PM PDT
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun. 6, 2009

Attacks on freedom of the press attack democracy everywhere.

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