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CMCS Director, Phil Howard on circumventing censorship in Sudan

June 13, 2014

CMCS Director, Phil Howard commented on the Sudan media situation in a Bloomberg article about journalists migrating online to circumvent government censorship of reporting:

“Online media faces fewer restrictions because Sudan’s government may not want to spend substantial amounts of money to monitor it, given the low number of Internet users in the country, Philip Howard, a communications professor at Central European University.”

CMCS Hosts Event on Journalism, Whistleblowing, and Mass Surveillance

June 11, 2014

On May 16 CMCS organized a public event with the title ‘Journalists and Whistleblowers in an Era of Mass Surveillance’ to discuss issues relating to the national security based arguments states use to justify their mass surveillance programs and how it impacts the rights of journalists and whistleblowers.

Call for Journalists to Participate in Defamation Survey

May 21, 2014
The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) and the School of Public Policy's Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest invite journalists from EU-member states and candidate countries to participate in an online survey about the effects of defamation, insult and blasphemy laws on journalism practices and press freedom.

Haraszti calls on Belarus for an immediate death sentence moratorium

April 25, 2014

Miklos Haraszti, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus and CMCS Fellow, issued a press release calling for an immediate moratorium on death sentences in Belarus.

In November 2013, Haraszti spoke about the illiberal situation in Belarus during one Media and Change lunch event

Here is the complete text of the statement: