CJFE Press Freedom Award Winners Announced
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has awarded its Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award to Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian photojournalist murdered earlier this year in an Iranian prison.
CJFE also awarded its 2003 International Press Freedom Awards to a journalist imprisoned in China for writing on the Internet and a Guatemalan journalist in hiding for his human-rights reporting.
The winners will be honoured at CJFE’s sixth annual International Press Freedom Awards dinner November 6 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto.
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CJFE Protests Quebec City Police Move to Grab News Tapes
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) expressed its dismay today at news that police in Quebec City have obtained a court order permitting them to seize news footage from three local television stations.
CJFE also voiced its support for the stations' plan to challenge the seizure order in court.
"Journalists work to inform the public, not to provide investigative assistance to police forces," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said, adding that this is the latest in a string of efforts by Canadian police forces to seize news materials.
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CJFE Protests Iraqi Explusions
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) called on Iraq today to rescind its decision to expel 69 foreign journalists.
"Iraq has taken this unacceptable step on the eve of a possible war," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said.
"This is a time when the world requires more information out of Iraq, not less. It will not be possible for the world to get a detailed picture of this critical time if journalists are kept out of Iraq."
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Call for Nominations - 2nd Annual Donner/CJFE Fellowship
CJFE Sponsors Second Annual Journalism Fellowship at Massey College
March 27, 2003 - Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is pleased to announce its second annual Donner/CJFE Journalist-at-Risk Fellowship to help a deserving journalist from abroad.
CJFE, along with Massey College and the Donner Foundation, offer the Fellowship for the 2003-2004 academic year to give a foreign journalist a mid-career sabbatical in Canada.
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CJFE Welcomes Court Ruling to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Toronto Star
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) welcomes a Superior Court of Justice ruling today throwing out the Toronto Police Association's $2.7-billion libel lawsuit against Toronto Star Daily Newspapers Ltd.
The police association launched the class-action suit on behalf of its 7,200 members after a series of articles in the Toronto Star said police sometimes give blacks harsher treatment than whites. The articles were based on an analysis of police data for the years 1996-2002.
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IFEX Wins Major Press Freedom Award
The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) has been awarded the World Press Freedom Award of the National Press Club of Canada for its "decade-long defence of journalists and of free expression around the world."
The award, consisting of $1,500 (Cdn) and a trophy, was presented in a ceremony today in Ottawa to Joel Ruimy, executive director of the IFEX Clearing House.
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Iran's Admission Not Enough: CJFE
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) said today that despite the latest admissions by the Government of Iran, it remains necessary to hold an independent investigation into the killing of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.
"Iranian authorities at first said Ms. Kazemi had suffered a stroke while in custody," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said. "Now they admit she died after being beaten. This piecemeal process is unacceptable. What else are they concealing from the world?
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Iran's Behaviour Ignores Basic Justice: CJFE
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) called on Iran today to heed international appeals and end its wrong-headed defiance of fundamental justice in the brutal murder of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.
"All through this sorry episode, Iran has violated fundamental human rights, along with the rules of basic decency," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said. "And it has done this with a series of grotesque, clumsy and transparent manoeuvres."
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Iraqi Journalist Wins Donner/CJFE Journalist-at-Risk Fellowship
Massey College and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) are pleased to announce that Hikmet El-Hadj, a native of Iraq currently living in Tunisia, has been awarded the second Donner/CJFE Journalist-at-Risk Fellowship. Mr. El-Hadj will join other Canadian and foreign colleagues in the Journalism Fellowship Program of Massey College in the University of Toronto. The Journalist-at-Risk Fellowship is awarded to a mid-career journalist affected by sectarian or ideological violence and intolerance.
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Nine Journalists Killed So Far in Iraq
In just 24 hours, the number of journalists killed covering the war in Iraq has doubled and it is time now for both sides to stop targeting journalists, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) said today.
"It has been nothing less than a bloodbath," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said of the carnage last night and this morning that claimed the lives of two correspondents and three cameramen. "With these new deaths, a total of nine journalists have been killed covering this war. Another three have died from other causes.
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