June 2009: The Chinese government's brutal crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of June 1989 were seen around the world. Now the government is trying to muzzle coverage of the 20th anniversary of the bloodbath by harassing journalists.
June 2009: Vigils were being held around the country in support of two American journalists who were to stand trial in North Korea. Vigils were being held in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Birmingham, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Euna Lee and Laura Ling of San Francisco-based Current TV were were arrested in March while reporting from the Tumen River, on North Korea’s northeast border. It's unclear whether they crossed the border or were abducted.
May 2009: Barring a last-minute intervention, two American journalists being held in North Korea face trial there. Euna Lee and Laura Ling of Al Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV were arrested in March while reporting from the Tumen River, on North Korea’s northeast border. It's unclear whether they crossed the border or were abducted.
May 2009: American journalist Roxana Saberi is freed from an Iranian prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. Saberi, 32, had been jailed for four months in Tehran's Evin Prison. The dual Iranian-American, who was raised in North Dakota, was reunited with her parents, who vowed to quickly bring her home to the U.S.
April 2009: The American journalist jailed in Iran is weak after seven days of a hunger strike, but otherwise in good spirits. Roxana Saberi has lost about 10 pounds, says her father, Reza Saberi, who visited his daughter in a Tehran prison. Saberi was convicted of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to eight years in prison after being tried in a one-day, closed-door trial.
April 2009: American journalist Roxana Saberi is convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison after being tried in a one-day, closed-door trial in Iran. It's the first time Iran has convicted an American journalist of spying. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is "deeply disappointed" by the conviction. "We will continue to vigorously raise our concerns to the Iranian government," she adds.
April 2009: American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been jailed in Iran on charges of spying for the U.S., had a closed-door trial and a verdict is expected within a few weeks. The 31-year-old Saberi was tried at Iran's Revolutionary Court, which handles national security cases.
April 2009: Roxana Saberi, the freelance U.S. journalist arrested earlier this year in Iran, has been charged with espionage - which can carry the death penalty - and will stand trial. Iranian officials said Saberi had confessed to taking part in espionage activities.
March 2009: When it comes to killing journalists, too many people are getting away with murder. That's the finding of the latest "Impunity Index" released by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The index, now in its second year, lists countries where journalists are regularly killed and the crimes go unsolved.
March 2009: A freelance U.S. journalist working in Iran who had been missing for more than a month is arrested and being held at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
February 2009: In Russia, journalists mourn the death of one of their own - Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year-old cub reporter who, along with a human rights lawyer, was shot execution-style recently by a masked man with a silenced pistol as they walked near the Kremlin. Russia is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists.
September 2008: A series of recent events have highlighted the dangers reporters face in many parts of the world, simply for doing their jobs. In Azerbaijan, an editor has been jailed for a year after he tried to investigate the unsolved murder of a colleague. In Vietnam, police beat and detained AP's Hanoi bureau chief when he tried to cover a protest.
