Petition Calls On Obama Stop Intimidation Of Journalists And Whistleblowers
By Roy Greenslade, The Guardian
Monday, September 8, 2014 15:00 EDT
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the New York-based press freedom body, has launched a petition today calling on President Obama’s administration to respect journalists’ right to gather and report news.
The petition, “Right to report in the digital age”, makes three key demands of the US government:
It should prohibit the hacking and surveillance of journalists and media organisations; it must limit prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimidate whistleblowers; and it must halt the harassment of journalists at the US border.
In its preamble to the petition, the CPJ argues that incidents of surveillance, intimidation and exploitation of the press “have raised unsettling questions about whether the US and other western democracies risk undermining journalists’ ability to report in the digital age.”
These incidents have also given ammunition to “repressive governments seeking to tighten restrictions on media and the internet.”
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