


Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Work in the library, launched Thursday to mark the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, is available in English and the original language in which the texts were written. Last year, nonprofit group the Committee to Protect Journalists warned that at least 250 journalists were in jail in relation to their work as of 1 December. Texts by exiled Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai are also showcased, as well as articles from Russia’s blocked website and Egypt’s blocked Mada Masr portal. Work by Javier Valdez – a Mexican journalist who founded the Riodoce newspaper dedicated to crime and corruption and was killed by gunmen in 2017 – can also be read in the library, which creators call “a loophole to overcome censorship.” The Crown Prince denied that he had personal involvement in Khashoggi’s death but said in a CBS interview that he took responsibility for the tragedy as a Saudi leader. He was allegedly killed and dismembered on October 2, 2018, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by men with close ties to the highest levels of the Saudi government and bin Salman. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was critical of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. The number of journalists jailed for their work is near record highs The new body reflects an attitude of the state under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that sees accusations of human rights violations to be intended to undermine the government and cause instability. Instead, the body is primarily aimed at protecting the government from allegations of rights abuses, especially those made by international groups. Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn't to protect Egyptians from violations. FILE - In this Jfile photo, Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zied, known by his nickname Shawkan, gestures in a soundproof glass cage inside a makeshift courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo.
