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Committee to Protect Journalists under fire for failing to include Assange on its list of jailed journalists for the third year in a row
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange puts his fist up as he is taken from court in London

THE New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has come under fire for failing to include Julian Assange on its list of jailed journalists for the third year in a row.

Writing in online publication The Dissenter, Kevin Gosztola strongly criticised the exclusion of the WikiLeaks founder from the committee’s annual report.

“Every day that the CPJ denies Assange a place in their jailed journalist index dilutes their credibility, as well as the ability of their advocacy to meaningfully contribute to an end to the US government’s concerted attack on journalism,” he argued.

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