Committee to Protect Journalists

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Committee to Protect Journalists

25 Jun 2025, 18:24

Live coverage of protests banned in Kenya, at least 2 journalists injured

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Nairobi, June 25, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by Kenyan authorities' Wednesday ban on live coverage of deadly protests, in which at least two journalists were injured, and the shutdown of at least three broadcasters. Protesters took to the streets in most of Kenya’s 47 counties to mark the one-year anniversary of anti-tax...

Committee to Protect Journalists

25 Jun 2025, 09:22

CPJ, others call on Egypt to end transnational repression against exiled journalists

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In a joint statement, led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 25 press freedom and human rights organizations called on the Egyptian government to end its transnational repression campaign against exiled journalists, including investigative reporter Basma Mostafa, who currently lives in Germany. The statement also urged German authorities to ensure her safety and uphold international...

Committee to Protect Journalists

24 Jun 2025, 15:08

Journalist arrested, accused of threatening Turkish president

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Istanbul, June 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkish authorities to immediately release journalist Fatih Altaylı following his June 22 arrest and imprisonment on accusations of threatening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in connection with his commentary on a public poll. “Fatih Altaylı’s arrest is a blatant attempt to intimidate an influential commentator into self-censorship,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s...

Committee to Protect Journalists

24 Jun 2025, 12:31

UK PM yet to meet jailed Jimmy Lai’s son as Hong Kong publisher’s health worsens

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New York, June 24, 2025—On the fourth anniversary of the closure of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, the Committee to Protect Journalists joined 32 other press freedom and human rights organizations in calling on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to urgently meet with Sebastien Lai, son of jailed publisher and British citizen Jimmy Lai....

Committee to Protect Journalists

23 Jun 2025, 19:15

Russia and Belarus release 2 journalists who had been detained for years

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Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively. Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly two...

Committee to Protect Journalists

23 Jun 2025, 19:15

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years

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Committee to Protect Journalists

23 Jun 2025, 17:35

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press

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New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Committee to Protect Journalists

23 Jun 2025, 12:43

Israel censors foreign press coverage of Iranian strike sites

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New York, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by Israeli authorities’ orders that international media obtain prior approval from the military censor before broadcasting news from combat zones or missile impact areas in the country. Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Friday that broadcasting from those locations...

Committee to Protect Journalists

23 Jun 2025, 09:16

CPJ alarmed by Zambian bill proposing jail for unlicensed journalists

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Nairobi, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday expressed alarm at a Zambian bill that could jail journalists who work without a license for up to five years if it were to become law, according to a draft reviewed by CPJ. “We are deeply concerned about the lack of transparency in the legislative...

Committee to Protect Journalists

20 Jun 2025, 19:42

CPJ, partners express alarm over detention of journalist Mario Guevara by US immigration authorities

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The Committee to Protect Journalists led a coalition of local and national civil society and press freedom organizations Friday in a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressing alarm about the detention of journalist Mario Guevara. Guevara, an Emmy-winning, Spanish-language reporter who covers immigration on his “MGnews” Facebook page and other social...

Committee to Protect Journalists

20 Jun 2025, 19:11

CPJ joins landmark mission to the Philippines supported by the Media Freedom Coalition

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Manila, June 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations have completed a joint mission to the Philippines, a first-of-its-kind effort supported by the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC), a grouping of 51 member states committed to defending press freedom worldwide. During the June 16-20 mission, CPJ, Reporters Without Borders, and Free Press Unlimited took...

Committee to Protect Journalists

20 Jun 2025, 18:14

France 24 and RFI broadcasters suspended in Togo for 3 months

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Dakar, June 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Togolese authorities to rescind a three-month broadcasting ban on France 24 television network and Radio France Internationale (RFI) for allegedly undermining stability with biased reporting. On June 16, Togo’s regulatory High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) suspended the two outlets, which are subsidiaries of...

Committee to Protect Journalists

20 Jun 2025, 11:20

Vietnamese journalist Le Huu Minh Tuan’s health declines in prison

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Bangkok, June 20, 2025—Vietnamese authorities must immediately release imprisoned journalist Le Huu Minh Tuan on humanitarian grounds so that he may receive urgent medical treatment, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. Tuan, who was arrested in 2020 and is serving an 11-year sentence for “conducting propaganda against the state” due to his journalism, has suffered from internal...

Committee to Protect Journalists

18 Jun 2025, 18:38

CPJ, partners call for an end to Georgia’s assault on media, repeal of new laws

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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 23 other press freedom and journalist organizations on June 17 in condemning Georgia’s deepening restrictions on the media, including several repressive new laws, and calling on the international community to pressure the ruling Georgian Dream party to end its suppression of the independent press. The statement warned that independent...

Committee to Protect Journalists

18 Jun 2025, 15:15

CPJ, partners express concern over growing deterioration of press freedom in El Salvador

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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 16 other international organizations in a joint statement Wednesday warning about the swift deterioration in press freedom in El Salvador, after at least 40 journalists have had to leave the country due to a sustained pattern of harassment, intimidation, and arbitrary restrictions on their work. The Salvadoran Journalists Association...

Committee to Protect Journalists

18 Jun 2025, 14:09

CPJ urges Paramount’s Shari Redstone to reconsider CBS lawsuit settlement

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed serious concern about the potential implications of a settlement in the lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and U.S. House Rep. Ronny Jackson against Paramount and CBS. In a letter sent to Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, CPJ emphasized that the lawsuit lacks merit and that CBS...

Committee to Protect Journalists

18 Jun 2025, 04:00

CPJ: European Union must act now on Gaza

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CPJ wrote an open letter on Wednesday, June 18, urging European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas to propose a suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. On May 20, the European Union committed to reviewing the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which sets out the EU’s...

Committee to Protect Journalists

17 Jun 2025, 20:20

Spanish-language journalist arrested in Atlanta while covering protest, facing possible deportation

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Washington, D.C., June 17, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by news reports of the ongoing detention and possible deportation of Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested June 14 while covering a “No Kings” protest against the actions of the Trump administration in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb. CPJ wrote a letter to DeKalb County Chief...

Committee to Protect Journalists

17 Jun 2025, 19:05

Iranian journalists censored, threatened over reporting Israel conflict

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Paris, June 17, 2025—Iran’s conflict with Israel has intensified media censorship in the Islamic Republic, with Iranian journalists warned not to comment online and a task force set up to prosecute those sharing “fake” news, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday, calling for press freedom to be respected. Two Iranian journalists, who spoke to...

Committee to Protect Journalists

17 Jun 2025, 18:07

Israel cracks down on Palestinian journalists during conflict with Iran

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Nazerath, June 17, 2025—Palestinian journalists in Israel covering the conflict with Iran that began June 12 have been accused of “working for the enemy,” barred from reporting sites, physically assaulted, and subjected to racial slurs. The attacks and restrictions against the Palestinian journalists are part of a broader pattern of obstruction and hostility toward the...

Committee to Protect Journalists

16 Jun 2025, 21:36

CPJ, partners denied visit to jailed Philippine journalist

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Philippine authorities on Monday refused to allow the Committee to Protect Journalists and a coalition of press freedom organizations to visit jailed journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio during a joint mission aimed at asking authorities to end her more than five-year detention. CPJ and the groups had submitted a formal request May 5 to visit Cumpio, a 26-year-old...

Committee to Protect Journalists

16 Jun 2025, 20:45

Australian writer questioned, deported from US after report on pro-Palestinian protests

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Washington, D.C., June 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports that Australian writer Alistair Kitchen was denied entry into the United States after border officials at the Los Angeles International Airport searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. “Alistair Kitchen’s deportation is a clear case of retaliation...

Committee to Protect Journalists

16 Jun 2025, 20:22

Israel strikes Iran state TV complex during live broadcast

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Paris, June 16, 2025—The Israeli military struck the headquarters of the state-owned outlet Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in the capital, Tehran, on Monday, interrupting a live broadcast. The strike occurred on the fourth day of fire exchanged between Israel and Iran. Footage showed an explosion in the studio and Sahar Emami, a presenter...

Committee to Protect Journalists

16 Jun 2025, 20:22

1 journalist, 1 media worker killed after Israeli strikes Iran state TV complex

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Paris, June 17, 2025—One journalist and one media worker with Iran’s state-owned broadcaster have died from their injuries following Monday’s Israeli strike on the headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in the capital Tehran, according to news reports. Nima Rajabpour, a 50-year-old news editor died after undergoing surgery for shrapnel in his back and thigh,...

Committee to Protect Journalists

16 Jun 2025, 14:42

CPJ calls for answers as US journalist Austin Tice reported executed in Syria

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Beirut, June 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is distressed by news reports that Austin Tice was executed in 2013 on the orders of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after more than 12 years of uncertainty over the American journalist’s fate. “Reports that journalist Austin Tice was executed in 2013 are horrifying and demand immediate...

Committee to Protect Journalists

14 Jun 2025, 19:58

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges

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Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terrorism, and endangering national security and unity. Saudi authorities arrested al-Jasser in 2018 and seized his devices, believing that he...

Committee to Protect Journalists

13 Jun 2025, 21:14

CPJ and civil society partners call on Congress to reject proposed State Department reorganization plan

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined human rights partners in a June 13 statement calling on the U.S. Congress to reject Secretary of State Marco Rubio's proposed reorganization of the State Department. Secretary Rubio's proposed plan, announced in May, would drastically downsize the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which is responsible for documenting and...

Committee to Protect Journalists

13 Jun 2025, 21:14

CPJ, partners call on Congress to reject proposed State Department reorganization plan

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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined human rights partners in a June 13 statement calling on the U.S. Congress to reject Secretary of State Marco Rubio's proposed reorganization of the State Department. Secretary Rubio's proposed plan, announced in May, would drastically downsize the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which is responsible for documenting and responding...

Committee to Protect Journalists

13 Jun 2025, 19:49

‘Get ready’: LA journalists warn of potential violence against press ahead of nationwide protests

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As protests over U.S. immigration enforcement raids began throughout the country last week, journalists rushed to cover the rapidly evolving story. Focus turned to Los Angeles, California, as President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines, notably without California Governor Gavin Newsom’s consent. Journalists on the ground in LA quickly became part of the...

Committee to Protect Journalists

13 Jun 2025, 18:07

DRC journalist detained, 3 others questioned over report on stadium’s sanitation

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Kinshasa, June 13, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the three-day detention of RTNC journalist Willy-Albert Kande and interrogation of colleagues Marcelin Mwananteba, Don Kubutana, and Laurent Ngala over coverage of sanitation conditions at the Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “DRC authorities should have never...

Committee to Protect Journalists

11 Jun 2025, 19:23

Togo detains TV5 Monde journalist, forces deletion of protest videos

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Dakar, Senegal, June 11, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Togolese authorities to investigate and hold accountable the gendarmes who detained journalist Flore Monteau and forced her to delete footage she took of anti-government protests on June 6. Monteau was released the same day. “The arrest of Flore Monteau continues a pattern of censorship through detention...

Committee to Protect Journalists

11 Jun 2025, 17:18

CPJ, others urge restraint after federal officers injure journalists covering Los Angeles protests

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The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday joined 27 press and civil society organizations in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressing alarm that federal officials might have violated the First Amendment rights of journalists covering recent protests in Los Angeles, California, which started following immigration raids in the city. The...